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 As unpublished manuscripts of the Federal Writers' Project these records passed into the hands of the Library of Congress Project for processing; and from them has been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.
- Anderson, Charles H.
- Barden, Melissa (Lowe) Mrs.
- Bledsoe, Susan
- Bost, Phoebe Mrs.
- Brown, Ben Ex-Slave
- Burke, Sarah Woods
- Campbel, James
- Clark, Fleming
- Davidson, Hannah Mrs.
- Hall, David A.
- Henderson, Celia
- Jackson, George
- Jemison, Perry Sid
- King, Julia
- Lester, Angeline
- Mann, Sarah
- Matheus, John W.
- McKimm, Kisey
- McMillan, Thomas
- Nelson, William
- Slim, Catherine
- Small, Jennie
- Smith, Anna
- Stewart, Nan
- Sutton, Samuel
- Toler, Richard
- Williams, Julia
- Williams, Julia (story)
- Williams, Reverend
- Williams, William
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Slave Narratives, 1941