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• 02 Dec 15
  

  Jennifer Conrad

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• 23 Feb 13
  

  Cathy Stutzman

  "From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. Their narratives remain a peerless resource for understanding the lives of America's four million slaves. What makes the WPA narratives so rich is that they capture the very voices of American slavery, revealing the texture of life as it was experienced and remembered. Each narrative taken alone offers a fragmentary, microcosmic representation of slave life. Read together, they offer a sweeping composite view of slavery in North America, allowing us to explore some of the most compelling themes of nineteenth-century slavery, including labor, resistance and flight, family life, relations with masters, and religious belief."

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  • From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from  across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under  the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most  born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided  first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and  on small farms. Their narratives remain a peerless resource for understanding  the lives of America's four million slaves. What makes the WPA narratives  so rich is that they capture the very voices of American slavery, revealing  the texture of life as it was experienced and remembered. Each narrative  taken alone offers a fragmentary, microcosmic representation of slave life.  Read together, they offer a sweeping composite view of slavery in North  America, allowing us to explore some of the most compelling themes of  nineteenth-century  slavery, including labor, resistance and flight, family life, relations  with masters, and religious belief.
  • Annotated  Index of Narratives
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    Reading  the Narratives
  • A  Note on the Sources

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• 02 Feb 13
  

  Kim West

  This site enlightens us on the events of the time period and the culture of slavery through personal narratives.

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• 02 Jan 13
  

  Carrie Shanahan

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• 10 Sep 12
  

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• 28 Nov 11
  

  Barbara Slavin

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• 16 Nov 11
  

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• 01 Oct 11
  

  Jim Young

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• 03 Aug 11
  

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• 19 Jul 11
  

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• 22 Apr 11
  

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• 21 Mar 11
  

  Lauren Marks

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• 02 Dec 10
  

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• 26 Sep 10
  

  Laura Horn

  This site provides first-person accounts from former slaves. I have actually used this site in American Literature to show students what slaves went through. It gives them a voice and students have really connected with the slaves' stories. Students can find lots of material about slavery, but the first-person accounts make it much more personal.

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• 25 Sep 10
  

  Valerie Kubick

  This site offers readers a chance to hear the voices of people the history textbooks have traditionally left out. Interviews done in the 1930's with former slaves are transcribed on this site, some with photographs of the former slave included. The transcripts are challenging to read because of dialect, racial slurs, and some troubling content. With teacher assistance, though, I think these transcripts could help students better understand life for slaves in our country's history.

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• 10 Apr 10
  

  Jeremy Kalbstein

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• 07 Mar 10
  

  ddanen5

  "From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during th

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• 09 Feb 10
  

  Kathleen Vetter

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• 30 Oct 09
  

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• 04 Oct 09
  

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• 30 Sep 09
  

  Kathleen Lynch

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• 07 Sep 09
  

  Lindsay Andreas

  The slave narrative project of the WPA in the 1930s is one of our greatest historical preservation efforts. Today, historians are scrambling around to preserve the narratives of Holocaust survivors and WWII vets, as they are rapidly leaving us. This is a good way to introduce the importance of oral histories. It would also be a good piece to start a lesson on evaluating primary sources.

  • From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from  across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under  the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most  born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided  first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and  on small farms.
• 01 Aug 09
  

  Rena Shifflet

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• 24 Jul 09
  

  Monique White

  This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews.

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  • From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the  American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of  the Works Progress Administration
• 10 Jul 09
  

  Deven Black

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• 01 Jul 09
  

  Stephanie Kaufman

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• 16 Jun 09
  

  Keisa Williams

  This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews. The entire collection of narratives can be found in George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite

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• 30 May 09
  

  Randy Meyer

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• 12 Mar 09
  

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• 16 Feb 09
  

  Laura Cummings

  From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms. Each narrative taken alone offers a fragmentary, microcosmic representation of slave life. Read together, they offer a sweeping composite view of slavery in North America, allowing us to explore some of the most compelling themes of nineteenth-century slavery, including labor, resistance and flight, family life, relations with masters, and religious belief. This web site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives, and to see some of the photographs taken at the time of the interviews.

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  From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during th

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• 20 May 08
  

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• 13 Dec 07
  

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• 13 Jul 07
  

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• 19 May 07
  

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• 03 May 07
  

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• 19 Apr 07
  

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  Samples of slave narratives compiled by journalists between 1936 to 1938 funded by the WPA.

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• 13 Dec 05
  

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