Supplementary Resources

• Library of Congress' American Memory project:
  • Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories: "interviews conducted between 1932 - 1975 [capturing] the recollections of twenty-three identifiable people born between 1823 and the early 1860s and known to have been former slaves".
    • Faces and Voices From the Presentation: Selected narratives from the above collection used in this RWLO.
  • Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938: "more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slave"
    • An Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives by Norman R. Yetman
    • Voices and Faces from the Collection: Selected narratives from the above collection.
       
• Additional Primary Sources about Slaver Narratives:
  • American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology: hosted by the American Studies Hypertexts at the University of Virginia
  • "Been Here So Long" - Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives: Former slave narratives, topical index, and lesson plans from the New Deal Network.
  • North American Slave Narratives from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hills Libraries.
  • The Slave Narrative: Definitions, further readings, and examples.
  • E-texts of Slave Narratives