Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…


These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project Administration. They consist of verbatim records of personal interviews with former slaves conducted during 1936-1938.

"These life histories, taken down as far as possible in the narrators' words, constitute an invaluable body of unconscious evidence or indirect source material, . . . The narratives belong to folk history—history recovered from the memories and lips of participants or eye-witnesses,” This is volume one for the state of Alabama, the first in the series of 34 volumes.
- Summary by Larry Wilson (15 hr 24 min)

Chapters

Charlie Aarons 7:55
Anthony Abercrombie 7:17
Molly Ammond (Ammonds) 5:01
Charity Anderson 5:43
Gus Askew 3:04
Tom Baker 5:17
Henry Barnes 10:10
Nathan Beauchamp 4:09
Oliver Bell 12:48
Nelson Birdsong 5:14
Ank Bishop 8:13
Siney Bonner 7:28
Jennie Bowen 4:59
Nannie Bradfield 4:50
Martha Bradley 5:40
Allen Brown 2:26
Gus Brown 5:33
Walter Calloway 7:17
Esther King Casey 6:07
Amy Chapman 7:16
Emma Chapman 7:39
Henry Cheatam 11:25
Laura Clark 10:53
Hattie Clayton 4:12
Wadley "Shorty" Clemons 6:10
William Colbert 6:24
Tildy Collins 9:25
Sara Colquitt 7:25
Mandy McCullough Cosby 4:49
Emma Crockett 5:13
Cheney Cross 21:49
Matilda Pugh Daniel 5:19
Carrie Davis 8:30
Clara Davis 4:34
George Dillard 3:30
Ella Dilliard 7:57
Rufus Dirt 4:44
Katherine Eppes 5:59
Reuben Fitzpatrick 3:04
Heywood Ford 5:19
Bert Frederick 5:03
Delia Garlic 7:59
Angie Garrett 8:47
Henry Garry 13:34
Georgia 2:35
Fannie Gibson 2:47
Frank Gill 10:16
Jim Gillard 6:24
Mary Ella Grandberry 20:20
Esther Green 7:38
Jake Green 6:25
Charity Grigsby 7:13
Charles Hayes 4:18
Lizzie Hill 3:05
Gabe Hines 6:45
Adeline Hodges 8:01
Caroline Holland 6:09
Jane Holloway 4:50
Joseph Holmes 23:39
Josh Horn 20:53
Emma L. Howard 9:07
Everett Ingram 6:15
Hannah Irwin 5:32
Martha Jackson 8:20
Jane 8:08
Randolph Johnson 3:57
Hilliard Johnson 8:26
Abraham Jones 7:45
Emma Jones 5:28
Hannah Jones 6:14
Josephine 2:34
Lucindy Lawrence Jurdon 4:13
Lucy Kimball 8:42
Ellen King 4:48
Mandy Leslie 8:32
Dellie Lewis 7:28
Lightnin' 3:38
Billy Abraham Longslaughter 5:31
Louis 10:46
Tom McAlpin 7:30
Anne Maddox 7:19
Mandy 5:37
Frank Menefee 7:41
Isaam Morgan 7:54
Tony Morgan 4:37
Mose 9:00
Sally Murphy 7:24
Hattie Anne Nettles 4:52
W.E. Northcross 13:51
Wade Owens 7:12
Molly Parker 3:01
Lindy Patton 2:55
Simon Phillips 7:27
Roxy Pitts 4:52
Carrie Pollard 6:26
Irene Poole 6:05
Nicey Pugh 7:25
Sally Reynolds 4:52
Mary Rice 2:56
Cornelia Robinson 5:21
Gus Rogers 5:03
Janie Scott 6:52
Maugan Shepherd 4:15
Allen Sims 6:13
Frank Smith 7:22
John Smith 8:23
Annie Stanton 6:33
Theodore Fontaine Stewart 6:10
George Strickland 7:15
Cull Taylor 7:22
Daniel Taylor 5:25
George Taylor 9:05
Amanda Tellis 4:05
Ellen Thomas 8:15
Elizabeth Thomas 2:41
Mollie Tillman 4:27
Alonza Fantroy Toombs 5:34
William Henry Towns 17:31
Stepney Underwood 5:53
Charlie Van Dyke 6:37
Lilah Walker 7:20
Simon Walker 6:07
Lucindia Washington 9:04
Eliza White 6:31
Mingo White 22:26
Abe Whitess 4:15
Callie Williams 8:14
Silvia Witherspoon 7:17
George Young 10:39