Kentucky Slave Narratives

A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, by Work Projects Administration.

The Writers' Unit of the Library of Congress Project processes material left over from or not needed for publication by the state Writers' Projects. On file in the Washington office in August, 1939, was a large body of slave narratives, photographs of former slaves, interviews with white informants regarding slavery, transcripts of laws, advertisements, records of sale, transfer, and manumission of slaves, and other documents. As unpublished manuscripts of the Federal Writers' Project these records passed into the hands of the Library of Congress Project for processing; and from them has been assembled the present collection of some two thousand narratives from the following seventeen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia

• Alexander, Elizabeth
• Anderson, John
• Austin, Nancy
• Billingsby, Kate
• Bogie, Dan
• Boyd, Annie B.
• Boyd, Co., Ky
• Bruner, Peter
• Campbell, Easter S.
• Casey Co., Ky
• Clark Co., Ky
• Cox, John R.
• Dick, Uncle
• Dorsey, George
• Duncan, Mrs.
• Eaves, Nannie
• Gibson, Mandy
• Gudgel, Ann
• Henderson, George
• Heyburn, Mrs.
• Hood, C.
• Hudspeth, Esther
• Hylton, Elphas P.
• Jones, Amelia
• Jones, Martha J.
• Mason, Harriet
• Mason, Harriet
• Mayfield, Bert
• McIntosh
• McKee, Jenny
• Mitchell, Scott
• Morgan, Annie
• Morgan, W. B.
• Oats, Will
• Owens, Joana
• Richardson, Alfred
• Richmond, Charlie
• Robinson, Belle
• Sanders, Susan D.
• Scruggs, George
• Shirley, Edd
• Slavin, Jennie
• Torian, Cora
• Woods, Wes
• Wooldridge, Mary
• Word, Sophia
• Wright, Mary
• 1850 Slave Bill of Sale
• Buying and Selling Slaves
• Cemetery Hill
• Coal Mine Slaves
• Hoo-Dooism
• Hopkins Co., Ky
• Kentucky Superstitions
• Knox Co., Ky
• Last Wolf
• List of Slave Owners
• Montgomery Co., Ky
• Myth at Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Negro Folk Songs
• Negro Holiness Meetings
• Recreations of Slaves
• Slave Trade Pricing
• Superstitions of Negro Race
• The Missing Man
• Underground Railroad

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Kentucky Slave Narratives, 1941

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