Ida and Henry

In the 1930's, the WPA Writer's Project sent interviewers into the South to obtain narratives of former slaves. This story follows Leonard, a white college age man sent by the WPA to South Carolina as he learns of the life, loves and tragedies of Ida and Henry, two elderly former slaves. The reader learns of the Civil War era and the segregated South and the evils of racism along with instances of compassion that leaves one with a glimmer of hope for the future.