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View Resource Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories

As part of the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress, this engaging website offers first-hand audio recollections of the experience of slavery in the American South from 23 African-Americans. The interviews themselves were originally conducted between 1932 and 1975, and contain memories of their lives that include discussions of their feelings on slavery, their families, and on...

https://www.loc.gov/collections/voices-remembering-slavery/a...