Slave Narratives

Download or read book Slave Narratives written by United States. Work Projects Administration and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."