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 As unpublished manuscripts of the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
- Allen, Martha
- Adams, Louisa
- Adkins, Ida
- Anderson, Joseph
- Anderson, Mary
- Andrews, Cornelia
- Anngady, Mary
- Arrington, Jane
- Augustus, Sarah Louise
- Austin, Charity
- Baker, Blount
- Baker, Lizzie
- Baker, Viney
- Barbour, Charlie
- Barbour, Mary
- Baugh, Alice
- Beckwith, John
- Bectom, John C.
- Bell, Laura Aunt
- Blalock, Emma
- Blount, David Uncle
- Bobbit, Clay
- Bogan, Herndon
- Boone, Andrew
- Bowe, Mary Wallace
- Brown, Lucy
- Burnett, Midge
- Cannady, Fanny
- Cofer, Betty Aunt
- Coggin, John
- Coverson, Mandy
- Cozart, Willis
- Crasson, Hannah
- Crenshaw, Julia
- Crowder, Zeb
- Crump, Adeline
- Crump, Bill
- Crump, Charlie
- Curtis, Mattie
- Dalton, Charles Lee
- Daniels, John
- Daves, Harriet Ann
- Davis, Jerry
- Debnam, W. Solomon
- Debro, Sarah
- Dickens, Charles W.
- Dickens, Margaret E.
- Dowd, Squire Reverend
- Dunn, Fannie
- Dunn, Jennylin
- Dunn, Lucy Ann
- Durham, Tempie Herndon
- Eatman, George
- Doc Edwards
- Evans, John
- Faucette, Lindsey
- Flagg, Ora M.
- Foster, Analiza
- Foster, Georgianna
- Freeman, Frank
- Gill, Addy
- Glenn, Robert
- Green, Sarah Anne
- Griffeth, Dorcas
- Gudger, Sarah
- Hall, Thomas
- Hamilton, Hecter
- Harris, George W.
- Harris, Sarah
- Harris, Sarah
- Hart, Cy
- Haywood, Alonzo
- Haywood, Barbara
- Henderson, Isabell
- Henry, Essex
- Henry, Milly
- Hews, Chaney
- High, Joe
- High, Susan
- Hill, Kitty
- Hinton, Jerry
- Hinton, Martha Adeline
- Hinton, Robert
- Hinton, William George
- Hodges, Eustace
- Huggins, Alex
- Hunter, Charlie H.
- Hunter, Elbert