Slave Narratives Alabamas Folk History of Slavery
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Discover the poignant stories within the Slave Narratives, a remarkable collection born from the Federal Writers Project, sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Works Progress Administration. This first volume focuses on Alabama and features verbatim accounts gathered from personal interviews with former slaves conducted between 1936 and 1938. These narratives, recorded as closely as possible in the narrators own words, provide a vital glimpse into the lived experiences of those who endured the trials of slavery. They are more than just stories; they are a unique form of folk history, capturing the voices of participants and witnesses to a painful chapter in American history. Join us as we delve into these invaluable life histories, starting with Volume I of this extensive 34-volume series. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Episodes
- 097 - Nicey Pugh
This episode discusses Volume I of the Slave Narratives, featuring firsthand accounts from former Alabama slaves interviewed between 1936 and 1938 as part of the Federal Writers Project. These verbatim stories offer a vital glimpse into th…
- 096 - Irene Poole
This episode delves into the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Alabama's folk history of slavery. It features verbatim accounts gathered from former slaves between 1936 and 1938, offering a glimpse into their lived experiences.
- 095 - Carrie Pollard
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection from the Federal Writers Project, focusing on Alabama. It highlights verbatim accounts from former slaves interviewed in the 1930s, offering a unique perspective on folk history and th…
- 094 - Roxy Pitts
This episode focuses on Roxy Pitts, drawing from the Slave Narratives of Alabama, a collection of verbatim accounts from former slaves recorded between 1936-1938. These interviews, part of the Federal Writers Project, offer a glimpse into…
- 093 - Simon Phillips
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection from the Federal Writers Project, focusing on Alabama. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936-1938, offering a glimpse into their lived experiences a…
- 092 - Lindy Patton
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Alabama. It highlights verbatim accounts from former slaves, gathered between 1936-1938 as part of the Federal Writers Project, offering a glimpse into their lived experie…
- 091 - Molly Parker
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives, focusing on Alabama and featuring firsthand accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936 and 1938. These verbatim records, part of the Federal Writers Project, offer a vital glimpse into…
- 090 - Wade Owens
This episode explores Volume I of the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Alabama. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves, gathered between 1936-1938 as part of the Federal Writers Project, offering a glimpse into their live…
- 089 - WE Northcross
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Volume I concerning Alabama. It features firsthand accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936 and 1938, preserving their experiences as folk history.
- 088 - Hattie Anne Nettles
This episode discusses Volume I of the Slave Narratives, a collection of firsthand accounts from former slaves in Alabama gathered by the Federal Writers Project. These verbatim interviews, conducted between 1936 and 1938, offer a vital gl…
- 087 - Sally Murphy
This episode discusses Volume I of Slave Narratives of Alabama, part of a collection from the Federal Writers Project. It features interviews with former slaves conducted between 1936 and 1938, preserving their first-hand accounts of slave…
- 086 - Mose
Episode 086 of Slave Narratives features Mose and discusses the folk history of slavery in Alabama through verbatim accounts from former slaves, collected by the Federal Writers Project between 1936-1938. This episode delves into the first…
- 085 - Tony Morgan
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Alabama. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936 and 1938 as part of the Federal Writers Project, offering a glimpse into their lived exp…
- 084 - Isaam Morgan
This episode delves into Volume I of the Slave Narratives, focusing on Alabama's folk history of slavery. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves, collected between 1936 and 1938 as part of the Federal Writers Project.
- 083 - Frank Menefee
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Volume I concerning Alabama. It highlights verbatim accounts from former slaves, gathered by the Federal Writers Project from 1936 to 1938, offering a glimpse into their e…
- 082 - Mandy
Episode 082 features stories from the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Alabama. These are verbatim accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936 and 1938, collected as part of the Federal Writers Project.
- 081 - Anne Maddox
This episode explores Volume I of the Slave Narratives, a collection of personal interviews with former slaves in Alabama conducted between 1936 and 1938. These verbatim accounts offer a unique form of folk history, capturing the voices of…
- 080 - Tom McAlpin
The Slave Narratives collection features verbatim accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936 and 1938, focusing on Alabama. These narratives, part of the Federal Writers Project, offer a unique folk history of slavery.
- 079 - Louis
This episode delves into Alabama's folk history of slavery, featuring verbatim accounts from former slaves collected between 1936-1938 as part of the Federal Writers Project. These narratives offer a vital glimpse into the lived experience…
- 078 - Billy Abraham Longslaughter
This episode delves into Volume I of the Slave Narratives, focusing on Alabama. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves, gathered between 1936 and 1938, offering a vital glimpse into their lived experiences and serving as a unique…
- 077 - Lightnin'
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives, a collection of personal interviews with former slaves from Alabama conducted between 1936 and 1938 as part of the Federal Writers Project. These narratives offer a vital glimpse into the lived…
- 076 - Dellie Lewis
This episode discusses Dellie Lewis, featuring stories from the Slave Narratives, a collection of personal interviews with former slaves conducted between 1936 and 1938 for the Federal Writers Project. These verbatim accounts form a vital…
- 075 - Mandy Leslie
This episode focuses on Volume I of the Slave Narratives collection, featuring firsthand accounts from former slaves in Alabama, gathered by the Federal Writers Project between 1936 and 1938.
- 074 - Ellen King
This episode discusses Volume I of the Slave Narratives of Alabama, which contains verbatim accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936 and 1938. These narratives form a unique collection of folk history, offering insights into th…
- 073 - Lucy Kimball
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Volume I concerning Alabama. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936 and 1938, offering a glimpse into their lived experiences and folk h…
- 072 - Lucindy Lawrence Jurdon
This episode delves into the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Volume I from Alabama, which features firsthand accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936-1938 as part of the Federal Writers Project.
- 071 - Josephine
This episode delves into the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Alabama. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936 and 1938, offering a glimpse into their lived experiences and folk history.
- 070 - Hannah Jones
This episode delves into Volume I of the Slave Narratives, featuring firsthand accounts from former Alabama slaves collected between 1936 and 1938. These interviews, part of the Federal Writers Project, offer a vital glimpse into the lived…
- 069 - Emma Jones
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives from Alabama, part of the Federal Writers Project. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936 and 1938, offering a glimpse into their lived experiences during slave…
- 068 - Abraham Jones
This episode explores the life of Abraham Jones through a verbatim account gathered during the 1930s Federal Writers Project, providing a firsthand perspective on the experience of enslavement in Alabama. It is part of a series documenting…
- 067 - Hilliard Johnson
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection from Alabama, focusing on personal interviews with former slaves conducted between 1936 and 1938. These verbatim accounts offer a vital glimpse into the lived experiences of individual…
- 066 - Randolph Johnson
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Volume I which covers Alabama. These are verbatim accounts from former slaves, gathered between 1936 and 1938 as part of the Federal Writers Project.
- 065 - Jane
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Alabama. It highlights verbatim accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936 and 1938, presented as folk history.
- 064 - Martha Jackson
This episode of Slave Narratives Alabamas Folk History of Slavery features the verbatim account of Martha Jackson, gathered from Federal Writers Project interviews conducted between 1936 and 1938. It explores her personal experiences as a…
- 063 - Hannah Irwin
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Volume I concerning Alabama. It features firsthand accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936 and 1938, offering a vital glimpse into their lived experiences.
- 062 - Everett Ingram
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection from the Federal Writers Project, focusing on Alabama. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves, gathered between 1936 and 1938, offering a glimpse into their lived experiences…
- 061 - Emma L Howard
This episode discusses Volume I of the Slave Narratives from Alabama, a collection of firsthand accounts from former slaves recorded between 1936 and 1938 as part of the Federal Writers Project.
- 060 - Josh Horn
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Alabama. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936 and 1938, offering a glimpse into their lived experiences.
- 059 - Joseph Holmes
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives, a collection of interviews with former slaves from Alabama conducted between 1936 and 1938. These verbatim accounts, part of the Federal Writers Project, offer a glimpse into the lived experienc…
- 058 - Jane Holloway
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection from Alabama, featuring firsthand accounts of slavery gathered between 1936-1938 by the Federal Writers Project. These verbatim interviews offer a glimpse into the lived experiences of…
- 057 - Caroline Holland
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection, specifically Volume I focusing on Alabama. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves, gathered between 1936 and 1938 as part of the Federal Writers Project.
- 056 - Adeline Hodges
This episode explores Volume I of the Slave Narratives of Alabama Folk History, featuring firsthand accounts from former slaves collected during the Federal Writers Project. These interviews, conducted between 1936 and 1938, provide a vita…
- 055 - Gabe Hines
This episode delves into the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Alabama's folk history of slavery. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves, collected between 1936-1938 as part of the Federal Writers Project.
- 054 - Lizzie Hill
This episode features stories from the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Alabama. It includes verbatim accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936-1938, offering a glimpse into their lived experiences during slavery.
- 053 - Charles Hayes
This episode features stories from the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Alabama and based on interviews with former slaves conducted between 1936 and 1938. These verbatim accounts offer a glimpse into the lived experiences of slave…
- 052 - Charity Grigsby
This episode discusses Volume I of the Slave Narratives, focusing on Alabama. It features verbatim accounts gathered from former slaves between 1936 and 1938, offering a glimpse into their lived experiences and the folk history of the era.
- 051 - Jake Green
This episode delves into Alabama's folk history of slavery, featuring personal interviews with former slaves collected between 1936-1938 as part of the Federal Writers Project. These verbatim accounts offer a vital glimpse into the lived e…
- 050 - Esther Green
This episode discusses the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Volume I about Alabama. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves interviewed between 1936 and 1938, offering a glimpse into their lived experiences.
- 049 - Mary Ella Grandberry
This episode delves into the Slave Narratives, Volume I, focusing on Alabama. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves, collected between 1936 and 1938 by the Federal Writers Project, offering a glimpse into their lived experiences.
- 048 - Jim Gillard
This episode discusses Volume I of the Slave Narratives collection, focusing on Alabama. It features verbatim accounts from former slaves, collected between 1936 and 1938 as part of the Federal Writers Project.