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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
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