Slave Narratives: Voices and Faces from the Collection

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Voices and Faces from the Collection

John W. Fields, Age 89 Sarah Frances Shaw Graves, Age 87 Sarah Gudger, Age 121 Charley Williams, Age 94 James Cape, Age over 100 Tempie Cummins, Age Unknown William Moore, Age 82 Walter Rimm, Age 80

The narrative excerpts

presented here are a small sample of the wealth of stories available in this online collection. Some narratives contain startling descriptions of cruelty while others convey an almost nostalgic view of plantation life. These narratives provide an invaluable first-person account of slavery and the individuals it affected. Although the African Americans who lived under slavery are no longer with us, their experiences remain due to these interviews recorded in the late 1930s by the Federal Writers' Project.

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4/14/2013