Edited by Steven Mintz from the University of Houston, these excerpts
from slave narratives offer primary accounts of the various aspects of
slavery from enslavement to emancipation.
Excerpts
from Slave Narratives
An index of slave narratives from an online anthology, these
narratives are the work of over 2,300 interviews of former slaves. The
interviews were conducted between 1936 and 1938 as part of the Works
Progress Administration. This is a selection of the entire collection
of narratives found in George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A
Composite Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972-79).
WPA
Slave Narrative Interviews
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery is an expansive
resource for further information about life in slavery, slave agency,
and the abolition of slavery. The Gilder Lehrman Center is part of the
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.
Gilder Lehrman Center for the
Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition