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Title: Slave Narratives, Administrative Files (A Folk History of
Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves)

Author: Work Projects Administration

Release Date: October 25, 2004 [EBook #13847]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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SLAVE NARRATIVES

A Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves

TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY
THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT
1936-1938
ASSEMBLED BY
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT
WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

WASHINGTON 1941

FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY
WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Paul Edwards, Administrator
Amelie S. Fair, Director, Division of Community Service Programs
Mary Nan Gamble, Chief, Public Activities Programs

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT
Official Project No. 165-2-26-7
Work Project No. 540

Mary Nan Gamble, Acting Project Supervisor
Francesco M. Bianco, Assistant Project Supervisor
B.A. Botkin, Chief Editor, Writers' Unit

[Transcriber's Note: The CONTENTS section that follows lists the collection
of Slave Narratives; the SELECTED RECORDS listing after the INTRODUCTION lists
the nine Administrative Files included in this volume. An identifier has
been added to the beginning of each of these Files.]

CONTENTS

I. ALABAMA

II. ARKANSAS

III. FLORIDA

IV. GEORGIA

V. INDIANA

VI. KANSAS

VII. KENTUCKY

VIII. MARYLAND

IX. MISSISSIPPI

X. MISSOURI

XI. NORTH CAROLINA

XII. OHIO

XIII. OKLAHOMA

XIV. SOUTH CAROLINA

XV. TENNESSEE

XVI. TEXAS

XVII. VIRGINIA

INTRODUCTION

I

This collection of slave narratives had its beginning in the se