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		The narratives presented here are from ex-slaves who spent most of their time as slaves in Missouri.
		Narratives of ex-slaves in other states are also included as part of the Rawick Papers.
		Narratives have been placed in alphabetical order with the narrator's place of residence at the time of the interview.
	www.umsl.edu /~libweb/blackstudies/moslave.htm (259 words)

	The Slave Narrative
		Narratives of slavery recounted the personal experiences of ante-bellum African Americans who had escaped from slavery and found their way to safety in the North.
		An essential part of the anti-slavery movement, these narratives drew on Biblical allusion and imagery, the rhetoric of abolitionism, the traditions of the captivity narrative, and the spiritual autobiography in appealing to their (often white) audiences.
		Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841...
	www.wsu.edu /~campbelld/amlit/slave.htm (1604 words)

	Slave narratives
		The narratives told of the horrors of family separation, the sexual abuse of fl women, and the inhuman workload.
		The narratives also gave Northerners a glimpse into the life of slave communities: the love between family members, the respect for elders, the bonds between friends.
		Though the slave narratives were immensely popular, the anti-slavery document which would reach the broadest audience was written by a white woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part4/4p2958.html (1152 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		To find examples of stories of former slaves, research texts at Born in Slavery.
		For details about these narratives in particular, see the section "A Note on the Language of the Narratives," which provides background on this project, describes direction and training given to interviewers, and alerts you to cultural stereotypes or biases that might be evident in dialects or other aspects of the stories.
		Information about the origin, history, evolution, purposes, and activities of the Federal Writers' Project is available through the EDSITEment-reviewed resource Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, at the Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives, in the sections on The WPA and Americans' Life Histories.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=364 (1873 words)

	ARTSEDGE: Reliving History Through Slave Narratives
		After reading narratives from former slaves that were recorded in the 1930's as part of the Federal Writers' Project, students conduct research on slavery, and tell a story based on their findings.
		For example, students researching the Underground Railroad could tell the story from the point of view of an escaping slave, a person who helps them during their journey, a family member left behind and a bounty hunter who is looking for the escaped slave.
		Slaves often created dances from the everyday events in their lives such as rocking a baby, picking cotton, or baking a cake.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /content/2358 (1294 words)

	"Been Here So Long": American Slave Narratives
		Students should be encouraged to consider the process through which these narratives were created, and the accompanying Lesson Plans have been formulated to raise issues of authorship and credibility.
		These narratives are not the direct transciptions of the interviews, and the forms they take differ from narrative to narrative.
		This was described by "Uncle" Henry Turner as a "pass"; and on this "pass" was written the name of the Negro, the place he was permitted to visit, and the time beyond which he must not fail to return.
	newdeal.feri.org /asn/asn00.htm (930 words)

	Ex-slave Narratives: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition)
		Photograph of Slave Cabin and Occupants Near Eufala, Barbour County, Alabama
		Interviewed by Gertha Couric Eufala, Alabama WPA Slave Narratives, A917, vol.
		Interviewed by Ruby Pickens Tartt Livingston, Alabama WPA Slave Narratives, A917, vol.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/african/afam015.html (133 words)

	American Slave Narratives
		These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms.
		Their narratives remain a peerless resource for understanding the lives of America's four million slaves.
		What makes the WPA narratives so rich is that they capture the very voices of American slavery, revealing the texture of life as it was experienced and remembered.
	xroads.virginia.edu /%7EHYPER/wpa/wpahome.html (222 words)

	Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives
		Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman.
		Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated; Translated from the Spanish, by R. Madden, M.D. With the History of the Early Life of the Negro Poet, Written by Himself; to Which Are Prefixed Two Pieces Descriptive of Cuban Slavery and the Slave-Traffic, by R. London: Thomas Ward and Co., 1840.
		Narrative of Joanna; An Emancipated Slave, of Surinam.
	docsouth.unc.edu /neh/texts.html (7620 words)

	Antislavery Literature: Slave Narratives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A narrative published in 1810 on the life of Jeffrey Brace, born in Mali, transported as a slave to Barbados and New England, and residing in Vermont.
		Narrative of the life and escape of Virginia slave Louis Hughes.
		The series includes Teaching Guides to the slave narratives of Jeffrey Brace and Boston King; the rhetoric of white abolitionist Henry Clarke Wright; and early African American antislavery sermons.
	antislavery.eserver.org /narratives (507 words)

	Article-Slave Narratives -Library of America-
		Ten original slave narratives provide important testimony to the slavery experience and the longing for freedom and provide insights into how a diverse group of writers challenged literary traditions by expressing their pain and anger.
		Slave Narratives is a compendium of writings and recollections by a diverse group of writers who exposed the realities of slave life in pre-Civil War America and thereby challenged the conscience of a nation while laying the foundations of an African American literary tradition.
		Slave Narratives is a searing collective portrait of American life before emancipation and would prove a core title for any Black Studies reference collection or reading list.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_book/A_slave_narratives_lib-1883011760.htm (1349 words)

	Publishers' Bindings Online: Slave Narratives
		Slave narratives, which became prominent in the decades leading up to the Civil War, have their roots in eighteenth century autobiography and leave a lasting legacy as the foundation of an African American literary tradition and a valuable primary source for historians.
		Narratives recounting the humiliation and torment of captivity emerged in the seventeenth century, as Puritans penned stories of imprisoned Native Americans to juxtapose their suffering with their eventual redemption by the grace of God.
		Although slave narratives resembled the narratives of Indian captivity in some ways, two important differences exist: slaves wrote (or dictated) their own stories, and they reversed the judgment shown in the Puritan writings by making the white settlers the “evil” that surrounded the fl slaves.
	bindings.lib.ua.edu /gallery/slave_narratives.html (1658 words)

	85.05.02: Slave Narratives: Black Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America
		The nineteenth-century slave narratives were written primarily to document slavery and to aid in the struggle for its abolition by providing eye-witness accounts of the victims of the peculiar institution to the American and European public.
		Despite the authenticity of these narratives, some historians have neglected the slave narratives in their studies of slavery because they believe the narratives reflect the thought of only the most outstanding gifted and talented slaves and are, therefore, not representative of the thought and experiences of the masses of “average” slaves.
		By studying the slave narratives, students will be able to learn about the nature of slavery, master-slave relationships, slaveholder brutality, the slave personality and consciousness, the slave family, the hierarchy of the plantation, the cultural and religious life of slaves, survival techniques and forms of slave resistance, and strategies used by slaves to escape.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1985/5/85.05.02.x.html (3289 words)

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		Many female slave narratives indicated that gender was an important factor in determining the fate of a slave even though slave owners often did not differentiate between genders in the assigning of tasks.
		The creators of the collections of slave narratives did not set out to obtain a random sample of the slave population or even of the former slaves who were still alive.
		A list of these, by no means exhaustive, might include the fact that the former slave was still alive, that the former slave was available on a particular day, or that he or she was known to the interviewer.
	www.lycos.com /info/slave-narratives.html (576 words)

	Library System - Howard University
		Slave Narratives written before 1900 were generally written or dictated by former slaves who either escaped to freedom or were able to otherwise purchase their freedom from their owners.
		Many of the slave narratives that were collected during the WPA Project during 1936-1938 are part of the Library of Congress' Slave Narrative Website section at the end of this webliography.
		Slave Narratives: An Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives
	www.howard.edu /library/Reference/Guides/SlaveNarratives/default.htm (2442 words)

	Slave Narratives.index.htm (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Slave Narratives written before 1900 were generally written or dictated by former slaves who either escaped to freedom or were able to otherwise purchase their freedom from their owners.
		Following are the names of some of the slaves who either wrote their own biographies or dictated their life stories to others and were published through the years up to the Slave Narrative Collection of the Federal Works Project.
		Many of the slave narratives that were collected during the WPA Project during 1936-1938 are part of the Library of Congress' Slave Narrative Website section at the end of this webliography.
	www.founders.howard.edu /Reference/Webliographies/slavenarrativeswpic/slavenarratives.index.htm (2473 words)

	Excerpts from "Slave Narratives and Publication" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		he discursive practices of published slave narratives collapsed the distinction between the slave and the institution of slavery, between the slave and history, and between the slave and the slave body.
		The slave narratives labor to produce multiple types of knowledge, while at the same time they necessarily efface the technology which is the condition of their discursive effects i.e.
		Moreover the publication of slave narratives can effect the re-capitalization of the slave as chattle, since the process whereby the narrative/story becomes an item of market value disappears behind the authority of the narrative as a representation of slave experience.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~lcasmier/publication.html (217 words)

	"I will be heard!" Abolitionism in America
		For slaves and their teachers, the exercise of reading and writing was a dangerous and illegal one.
		The slaves themselves often suffered severe punishment for the crime of literacy, from savage beatings to the amputation of fingers and toes.
		Although some masters did teach their slaves to read as a way to Christianize them, most slave owners believed that teaching such skills was useless, if not dangerous.
	rmc.library.cornell.edu /abolitionism/narratives.htm (263 words)

	WPA Slave Narratives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The slave narratives are invaluable to anyone who tries to understand slavery from the vantage point of the men and women who were enslaved.
		Although the WPA Slave Narratives were soon deposited in the Library of Congress, and soon thereafter also made available to researchers on microfilm, they were rarely used by scholars from any discipline.
		All significant slave occupations are represented in the WPA Slave Narratives, as are both large plantations and small farms.
	mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature60/slavenarratives.htm (2254 words)

	Slave Narratives and Plantation Days
		Narratives for Louisiana are not included; the introductory text with the microfiche collection notes this lack and expresses the hope that supplementary material could be issued.
		Names of slaves, sometimes with surnames and sometimes with only a given name, can be found in the sketches but short of looking at the manuscripts, which do contain slave lists and names, the relating of names in the narratives with names in the plantation records is difficult.
		It is especially valuable in that it indicates both male and female parents of slaves born on the plantation.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~library/Library_Bulletin/Apr1991/LB-A91-VClose1.html (2185 words)

	Slave Narratives
		Appalachian slave narratives are not handicapped by the kinds of shortcomings that plague the national WPA collection.
		By checking the slave narratives against Census manuscripts and slave schedules, I established that the vast majority of the Appalachian narratives were collected from individuals who had been enslaved on plantations that held fewer than twenty slaves.
		The WPA Collection of Slave Narratives is now online at the Library of Congress website, so you will be able to access most of the Appalachian narratives at that site.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /faculty_archives/mountain_slavery/slave.htm (519 words)

	American Slave Narratives
		These former slaves, most born in the last years of the slave regime or during the Civil War, provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms.
		While the racial language is offensive, please try to remember that these narratives were conducted sixty years ago in the Jim Crow South; just as these former slaves had survived into the twentieth century, so had the ideology of white supremacy that underpinned the slave society of the American South.
		He recalled that his mistress did not allow her slaves to be mistreated--because she was raising slaves for the market, and she considered it poor business to mistreat them.
	afgen.com /slave_narrative.html (1520 words)

	Introduction \| Slave Narratives \| The MoAD Salon \| MoAD - Museum of the African Diaspora
		The enslavement of the African peoples, the transatlantic slave trade, and the plantation system that followed, initiated the largest sustained commercial trading of human beings in history.
		The few slave narratives that are presented in this exhibit reflect only a fraction of the millions upon millions of stories that could have been told by people who had the misfortune to toil under the yoke of slavery.
		Although each of their stories is as unique and individual as a fingerprint, describing as they do, a different heartbreak and a different survival strategy.
	moadsf.org /salon/exhibits/slave_narratives (126 words)

	Slave Narratives and Slave Narratives
		Two thousand former slaves were interviewed about their families and childhood, their work as slaves, clothing and food, education, impressions of their masters, leisure and recreation, illnesses and medical care, and their impressions of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.
		The Slave Narratives: Appraisal Sheets is also arranged by state, but doesn't have a list of the people interviewed in the state.
		Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938 can be searched by keyword, subject state and narrator (person interviewed).
	library.truman.edu /microforms/slave_narratives.htm (321 words)

	Amazon.com: Slave Narratives (Library of America): Books: William L. Andrews,Henry Louis Gates (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ten original slave narratives provide important testimony to the slavery experience and the longing for freedom and provide insights into how a diverse group of writers challenged literary traditions by expressing their pain and anger.
		Slave Narratives is a compendium of writings and recollections by a diverse group of writers who exposed the realities of slave life in pre-Civil War America and thereby challenged the conscience of a nation while laying the foundations of an African American literary tradition.
		Slave Narratives is a searing collective portrait of American life before emancipation and would prove a core title for any Black Studies reference collection or reading list.
	www.amazon.com /Narratives-Library-America-William-Andrews/dp/1883011760 (1860 words)

	DVD Talk Review: Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
		Still, in generations not long past former slaves were still among us and their reminiscences are collected in the Library of Congress' Slave Narratives.
		Some of the former slaves quoted actually look back at their masters with longing, particularly some of the "house slaves," who worked as maids, butlers and cooks.
		Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives, however, is a well-done piece that should make viewers want to seek out more of this material and experience a bit of this crucial American era in the words of those who lived it.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=7091 (890 words)

	Slavery in America
		So, how did the idea to do paintings based on slave narratives first come to me? Being introduced to the slave narratives at the NYU seminar opened a door for me that I had intentionally closed.
		Considering all the details and descriptions given by the speaker or author of the narrative, I immediately knew that the images should be realistic and representative, as well as, symbolic.
		Since reading the narratives and creating the images, I clearly understand that the shame of slavery is not borne by my ancestors.
	www.slaveryinamerica.org /narratives/nar_gilbert.htm (976 words)

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