Slave Narratives

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A functional but understated graphic approach keeps the focus on the narratives, while presenting additional information such as transcripts, biographies, and source material.

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Slave Narratives is an interactive online exhibit and podcast which offers dramatic and moving first-person accounts of life under slavery. The stories come from across the globe and span the 1700s to the modern day. Maya Angelou narrates, and other acclaimed actors read the individual accounts.

Ideum worked closely with the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) to develop this interactive exhibit and podcast. Biographies, transcripts, and source materials are included in the Flash-based interactive. An HTML version of the Website was also developed. Slave Narratives was a Yahoo! Pick of the Day in 2006.

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