Slave Narratives and Autobiographies

This CD, with 48 books, collects first-hand accounts of life under slavery, including "Slave Narratives" compiled by the US Government during the depression, as part of the Federal Writers' Project, based on interviews with former slaves; and also autobiographies by former slaves.

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Table of Contents

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the US from Interviews with Former Slaves", compiled, edited, and published as part of the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1941

• Introduction
• Volume 2 Arkansas
• part 1
• part 2
• part 3
• part 4
• part 5
• part 6
• part 7
• Volume 3 Florida
• Volume 4 Georgia
• part 1
• part 2
• part 3
• part 4
• Volume 5 Indiana
• Volume 6, Kansas
• Volume 7 Kentucky
• Volume 8 Maryland
• Volume 9 Mississippi
• Volume 11 North Carolina
• part 1
• Volume 12 Ohio
• Volume 13 Oklahoma
• Volume 14 South Carolina
• part 1
• part 2
• Volume 15 Tennessee

Slave Autobiographies

• Behind the Scenes or 30 Years a Slave and 4 Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keeley
• Biography of a Slave by Charles Thompson, 1875
• The Fugitive Blacksmith or Events in the History of James W.C. Pennington, 1849
• The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave by Herself
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent
• The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiana or Gustavus Vassa the African
• Memoirs of Childhood's Slavery Days by Annie Burton
• Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Coloured Woman
• My Life in the South by Jacob Stroyer, 1898
• Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
• Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, 1864
• A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Coloured Man
• Narrative of the  Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, 1772
• Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, 1844
• Narrative of Lunsford Lane, 1842
• Narrative of William W. Brown, 1847
• Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft
• A Slave Girl's Story, Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgold
• The Story of Mattie J. Jackson
• Thirty Years a Slave by Louis Hughes
• Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward, 1856
• Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
• Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
• My Bondage and My Freedom
• Articles: My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass