
The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who endured. Although most of these accounts appeared before the Civil...



Slave Narratives. Alabama Narratives. Federal Writers' Project. A Folk History of Slavery in the United States. From Interviews with Former Slaves. Illustrated with Photographs. WASHINGTON 1941. VOLUME I. ALABAMA NARRATIVES. Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works...