“Take Me To The Water To Be Baptized”: Waterways and Spiritual Immersion Among Enslaved Communities in the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives

by Kiara Alvarez, Smith College ’24
Written for HST 371: Topics in 19th Century United States History— Remembering Slavery: A Gendered Reading of the WPA Interviews Advised by Professor Elizabeth Pryor
Edited by Macy Lerner, Julianne Harwood, Kyra McCreery,
Chloe Rhee, Evelyn Ronan, and Ethan Chen