This CD, with 34 books, collects first-hand accounts of life under slavery, including "Slave Narratives" compiled by the US Government during the depression, as part of the Federal Writers' Project, based on interviews with former slaves; and also autobiographies by former slaves.
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Table of Contents
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the US from Interviews with
Former Slaves", compiled, edited, and published as part of the Federal
Writers' Project, 1936-1941
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Introduction
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Volume 2 Arkansas
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part 1
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part 2
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part 5
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part 6
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part 7
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Volume 3 Florida
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Volume 4 Georgia
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Volume 5 Indiana
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Volume 6, Kansas
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Volume 7 Kentucky
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Volume 8 Maryland
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Volume 9 Mississippi
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Volume 12 Ohio
Slave Autobiographies
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Biography of a Slave by Charles Thompson, 1875
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The Fugitive Blacksmith or Events in the History of James W.C. Pennington,
1849
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Brent
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiana or Gustavus Vassa
the African
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My Life in the South by Jacob Stroyer, 1898
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Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
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Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, 1864
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Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James
Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, 1772
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Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, 1844
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Narrative of Lunsford Lane, 1842
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Narrative of William W. Brown, 1847
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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft
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Thirty Years a Slave by Louis Hughes
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Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward, 1856
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Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
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Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
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My Bondage and My Freedom
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Articles: My Escape from Slavery and Reconstruction
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass