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Original – Wes Brady, ex-slave, Marshall, Texas. From the Federal Writers' Project Slave Narrative Collection, a compilation of type-written interviews, along with selected audio recordings and photographs, featuring more than 2000 former American slaves. Mr. Brady's story can be read at this link.
Reason
The Slave Narrative Collection was one of the largest single endeavors of the Federal Writers' Project, second only to the American Guides series. While the narratives it produced have been frequently studied, cited, taught in schools, and debated, the photographs in the collection have gotten less attention. Although the photographers of the FWP were amateurs (unlike those of the much better known FSA), and are not always as technically adept as we might want, having the same person interview and photograph a subject can produce revealing, deeply human results, as I think we see here. The original is here for comparison; my reconstructive efforts were pretty minimal; I left the white balance where it was (I think it's pretty good, though there are other, more contrasty scans of this photograph around) and cleaned up some scratches, mostly on the top third of the photograph.
Articles in which this image appears
Slave Narrative Collection, Historiography of the United States#Slavery
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History
Creator
Anonymous photographer of the Federal Writers' Project; edited by Chick Bowen

Promoted File:Wes Brady, ex-slave, Marshall edited.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 00:36, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]