SLAVE NARRATIVES

 A Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves

TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY
THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT
1936-1938
ASSEMBLED BY
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT
WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS


WASHINGTON 1941



FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY
WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Paul Edwards, Administrator
Amelie S. Fair, Director, Division of Community Service Programs
Mary Nan Gamble, Chief, Public Activities Programs

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT
Official Project No. 165-2-26-7
Work Project No. 540

Mary Nan Gamble, Acting Project Supervisor
Francesco M. Bianco, Assistant Project Supervisor
B.A. Botkin, Chief Editor, Writers' Unit



[Transcriber's Note: The CONTENTS section that follows lists the collectionof Slave Narratives; the SELECTED RECORDS listing after the INTRODUCTIONlists the nine Administrative Files included in this volume. An identifierhas been added to the beginning of each of these Files.]
CONTENTS
  1.  
    ALABAMA
  2.  
    ARKANSAS
  3.  
    FLORIDA
  4.  
    GEORGIA
  5.  
    INDIANA
  6.  
    KANSAS
  7.  
    KENTUCKY
  8.  
    MARYLAND
  9.  
    MISSISSIPPI
  10.  
    MISSOURI
  11.  
    NORTH CAROLINA
  12.  
    OHIO
  13.  
    OKLAHOMA
  14.  
    SOUTH CAROLINA
  15.  
    TENNESSEE
  16.  
    TEXAS
  17.  
    VIRGINIA

INTRODUCTION

I
This collection of slave narratives had its beginning in thesecond year of the former Federal Writers' Project (now the Writers'Program), 1936, when several state Writers' Projects—notablythose of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina—recorded interviewswith ex-slaves residing in those states. On April 22, 1937,a standard questionnaire for field workers drawn up by John A.Lomax, then National Advisor on Folklore and Folkways for the FederalWriters' Project[1],was issued from Washington as "SupplementaryInstructions #9-E to The American Guide Manual" (appended below).Also associated with the direction and criticism of thework in the Washington office of the Federal Writers' Projectwere Henry G. Alsberg, Director; George Cronyn, Associate Director;Sterling A. Brown, Editor on Negro Affairs; Mary Lloyd, Editor;and B.A. Botkin, Folklore Editor succeeding Mr.Lomax.[2]
[1]
  Mr.Lomax served from June 25, 1936, to October 23, 1937, witha ninety-day furlough beginning July 24, 1937. According to amemorandum written by Mr. Alsberg on March 23, 1937, Mr. Lomax was"in charge of the collection of folklore all over the United Statesfor the Writers' Project. In connection with this work he is makingrecordings of Negro songs and cowboy ballads. Though technicallyon the payroll of the Survey of Historical Records, his workis done fo                        
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