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Slave Narratives

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Browse the following collections of early slave narratives. Written by runaway slaves and freedmen these narratives    share the experiences of having lived in human bondage.

Digital Schomburg Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Library of Congress Web Guides

Documenting the American South Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Freedom Narratives: Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of Slavery

 

During the Great Depression (1929-1939), unemployed folklorists, historians, journalists and writers were hired by the Work Progress Agency to carry out interviews with former slaves. The interviewers traveled throughout seventeen states in the south and Midwest and compiled over 2,300 first-hand accounts of men and women who had been born into slavery. The following collections contain transcripts, photographs and audio recordings compiled from these interviews.

Library of Congress' American Memory Collection

The African American History Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920

University of Virginia, American Studies Hypertext Projects

Photo Credit: Library of Congress

General Collections

Search for slave narratives from these digital book collections:

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