South Carolina 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 As unpublished manuscripts of the Federal Writers' Project these records passed into the hands of the Library of Congress Project for processing; and from them has been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.

• Raines, Mary 
• Range, Frank 
• Rawls, Sam 
• Renwick, Ellen 
• Rice, Anne 
• Rice, Jesse 
• Rice, Phillip 
• Richardson, Martha 
• Riley, Mamie 
• Riser, Susie 
• Roberts, Isom 
• Robertson, Alexander 
• Robinson, Charlie 
• Rosboro, Al 
• Rosboro, Tom 
• Rosborough, Reuben 
• Rose, William 
• Russell, Benjamin 
• Rutherford, Joe 
• Rutherford, Lila 
• Rutledge, Sabe Uncle 
• Ryan, Henry 
• Ryan, Henry 
• Satterwhite, Emoline 
• Scaife, Alexander 
• Scantling, Eliza 
• Scott, Mary 
• Scott, Nina "Aunt" 
• Scurry, Morgan 
• Simmons, Ransom Uncle 
• Sligh, Alfred 
• Smith, Dan 
• Smith, Hector 
• Smith, Hector 
• Smith, Jane 
• Smith, Mary 
• Smith, Prince 
• Smith, Silas 
• Sparrow, Jessie Mom 
• Sparrow, Jessie Mom 
• Sparrow, Jessie Mom 
• Sparrow, Jessie Mom 
• Starke, Rosa 
• Stewart, Josephine 
• Suber, Bettie 
• Swindler, Ellen 
• Taylor, Mack 
• Thompson, Delia 
• Toatley, Robert 
• Veals, Mary 
• Veals, Mary 
• Walker, Manda 
• Walker, Ned 
• Waring, Daniel 
• Washington, Nancy 
• Watson, Charley 
• White, Dave Uncle 
• White, Dave Uncle 
• White,Tena 
• Williams, Bill 
• Williams, Jesse 
• Williams, Mary Aunt 
• Williams, Willis Uncle 
• Wilson, Emoline 
• Wilson, Emoline 
• Wilson, Jane 
• Woodberry, Genia Mom 
• Woodberry, Julia 
• Woodberry, Julia 
• Woodberry, Julia 
• Woodberry, Julia 
• Woods, George 
• Woodward, Aleck 
• Woodward, Mary 
• Worth, Pauline 
• Wright, Daphney 
• Young, Bill "Uncle" 
• Young, Bob

Slave Narratives

Notes About the Book:

Source: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of South Carolina, 1941

Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and then ocr'd. Minimal editing has been done, and readers can and should expect some errors in the textual output.