Titles
- Slave Narratives From The Federal Writers’ Project, 1936- 1938
- Slave Narratives
- American Memory
Attribution
Manuscript Division, Library of Congress and Prints and Photographs Division, Library of CongressPublication Details
E-ResourceLibrary of Congress2001Availability
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Subject
- Slaves — United States — Interviews — Electronic information resource
- Slaves — United States — Electronic information resource
- Freedmen — United States — Interviews — Electronic information resource
- African Americans — Interviews — Electronic information resource
- United States — Biography — Electronic information resource
- Slaves’ writings, American — Electronic information resource
- African Americans — History — Electronic information resource
- African Americans — Biography — Electronic information resource
- Slavery — United States — Personal narratives — Electronic information resource
- LAMSON LIBRARY LINKS TO ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCES
Notes
- Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress
- Presents more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. Provides links from individual photographs to the corresponding narratives. Collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the narratives were assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume work entitled Slave narratives: a folk history of slavery in the United States, from interviews with former slaves
Contents
- An introduction to the WPA slave narratives / by Norman R. Yetman
- Voices and faces from the collection
- About the collection
- Related resources
- A note on the language of the narratives
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