Born in Slavery: Slave NarrativesContains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 photographs of former enslaved people. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
This site provides an opportunity to read a sample of these narratives. The entire collection of narratives can be found in George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972-79), call number E444 .A45 (lower level 2)