{"id":24843,"date":"2021-02-12T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/from-1936-to-1938-accounts-from-2300-formerly-enslaved-people#id29112"},"modified":"2021-02-12T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:15:00","slug":"from-1936-to-1938-interviewers-gathered-accounts-from-2300-formerly-enslaved-people-theyve-been-largely-hidden-ever-since","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/from-1936-to-1938-interviewers-gathered-accounts-from-2300-formerly-enslaved-people-theyve-been-largely-hidden-ever-since\/","title":{"rendered":"From 1936 to 1938, interviewers gathered accounts from 2,300 formerly enslaved people. They\u2019ve been largely hidden ever since."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The stories swirling about the room weren&rsquo;t famous accounts of extraordinary people; rather, they were the words of all-but-forgotten individuals who bore witness to the quotidian brutality of chattel slavery.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2021\/03\/federal-writers-project\/617790\/?src=longreads&#038;mc_cid=39dfa09860&#038;mc_eid=21d01bc989\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/from-1936-to-1938-accounts-from-2300-formerly-enslaved-people\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        The stories swirling about the room weren&rsquo;t famous accounts of extraordinary people; rather, they were the words of all-but-forgotten individuals who bore witness to the quotidian brutality of chattel slavery.<br \/>\n     &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24844,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24843\/revisions\/24844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}