Slave Narratives

Slave Narratives by the United States Work Projects Administration is a collection of riveting and humbling folk stories of hardship and dehumanization told by formerly enslaved people from the state of Oklahoma. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States is a collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938. Excerpt: «I was born in Louisiana, way before the War. I think it was about ten years before, because I can remember everything so well about the start of the War, and I believe I was about ten years old. My Mammy belonged to Mr. Sack P. Gee.»