
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: Mississippi Narratives is a collection of first-hand accounts of the experiences of enslaved African Americans in Mississippi during the 19th century. The book was compiled by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) in the 1930s as part of a larger initiative...