APUSH Slavery Narrative Resources Guide: Slavery Narratives from the Web

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An alphabetical list of hyperlinked North American Slave Narratives

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration.

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The following document is courtesy of Encyclopaedia Britannica's publishing partnership with the Lillian Goldman Law Library's Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth; 1850

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a
Runaway Slave, from Kentucky, by Jacob D. Green

Jacob Stroyer was enslaved in South Carolina from his birth in 1849 until the end
of the Civil War. After emancipation in 1865, he moved to Massachusetts and
became a minister in the African Methodist Church.

Enslaved in Alabama, 1850-1865
Interview conducted ca. 1937, San Angelo, Texas

Enslaved in North Carolina, ca. 1849-1865
Interview conducted September 1937

The following selection from Drew's book was either written or dictated by Mrs. John Little, who followed her husband to Canada, probably in the 1850s. Although brief, her account gives a vivid picture of her life in slavery and the circumstances leading up to her husband's and her own escape.