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From 1936 to 1938, over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South were interviewed by various writers and journalists. 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.
The links provided on this website, will take you ato other sites, where you can read and/or listen to the narratives. The narratives capture the very voices of American slavery, revealing the texture of life as it was experienced and remembered.
Each narrative 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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Nov. 2: Rev. Al Sharpton challenges Americans to participate in making the country better, like Rosa Parks did all her life.
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