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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 Twelve for the state of Ohio, in a series of 34 volumes. - Summary by Larry Wilson (4 hr 49 min)

Chapters

Charles H. Anderson

11:43

Melissa Barden

2:39

Susan Bledsoe

4:43

Phoebe Bost

2:49

Ben Brown

8:58

Sarah Woods Burke

7:17

James Campbell

9:37

Fleming Clark

8:38

Hannah Davidson

15:07

Mary Belle Dempsey

4:08

Nancy East

6:35

Wade Glenn

5:38

David A. Hall

9:11

Celia Henderson

18:42

George Jackson

13:35

Perry Sid Jemison

18:17

Julia King

8:59

Angeline Lester

4:50

Kisey Mckimm

6:18

Thomas Mcmillan

6:59

Sarah Mann

4:56

John Williams Matheus

7:53

William Nelson

6:25

Catherine Slim

7:31

Jennie Small

5:11

Anna Smith

9:29

Nan Stewart

15:34

Samuel Sutton

14:57

Richard Toler

10:40

Julia Williams

10:49

Julia Williams, supplemental story

4:41

Reverend Williams

9:35

William Williams

6:51