This collection from the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress presents digitized transcripts of interviews of former slaves, conducted under the auspice of the Federal Writers Project (FWP), a Depression-era Works Progress Administration program that put unemployed writers to work. Between 1936 and 1939, the FWP collected the life stories of ordinary people. In 1937, John A. Lomax,...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries' Documenting the American South project (first discussed in the April 18, 1997 Scout Report--) brings us this collection of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century slave narratives. The collection, which was just completed last month, comprises 230 English-language narratives and many biographies of fugitive and former slaves....