Ohio Slave Narratives Story Book Village Hinds and the Columbus Landmarks

Hinds and the Columbus Landmarks Foundation in a closer look at a flood disaster that reshaped the American Midwest

Led by volunteers

a city that has often welcomed corporate influence at the expense of livability and equal opportunity for its residents

the iron miner

Ohio Slave Narratives Story Book Village Hinds and the Columbus LandmarksThe view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who endured. Although most of these accounts appeared before the Civil War, more than one third are the result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving ex slaves