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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 for the state of Kentucky, Volume 7 in a series of 34 volumes. - Summary by Larry Wilson (5 hr 1 min)

Chapters

Dan Bogie

6:25

George Henderson

5:45

Harriet Mason

5:33

Bert Mayfield

8:35

Will Oats

3:04

Belle Robinson

2:07

Edd Shirley

2:06

Wes Woods

6:59

Ann Gudgel

3:22

Mrs. Heyburn

2:06

George Scruggs

4:47

Harriet Mason

4:27

Rev. John R. Cox

4:30

Mrs. Duncan

5:16

Elizabeth Alexander

7:22

Amelia Jones

8:28

Jenny McKee

4:24

Susan Dale Sanders

6:52

John Anderson

2:07

Joana Owens

2:31

Martha J. Jones

2:57

Charlie Richmond

7:58

George Dorsey

11:45

Annie B. Boyd

8:19

Kate Billingsby

4:07

Nannie Eaves

3:35

Mary Wright

10:17

Sophia Word

6:00

Boyd County

13:18

Mandy Gibson

5:54

Scott Mitchell

3:27

Union County

2:51

Nancy Austin

4:11

Rockcastle County

2:15

Clark County

12:43

Montgomery County

3:55

Edd Shirley

2:35

Mrs. C. Hood

2:40

Peter Bruner

5:46

Easter Sudie Campbell

11:52

Uncle Dick and The Last Wolf

7:35

Negro Holiness Meetings

3:50

Superstitions of the Negro Race

6:43

Negro Folk Songs

2:53

Annie Morgan

4:05

Cora Torian

5:31

Mary Wooldridge

11:29

Caldwell County

4:19

Tinie Force and Elvira Lewis

8:52

Lawrence, Leslie, Garrard, and Webster Counties

4:01

Esther Hudspeth

3:06

Anderson County

2:33

Knox County

1:29

Clark County

2:10

Casey County

2:39

Christian County - Hoo-Dooism

3:55

Hopkins County and Martin County

3:02