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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives is a 2003 American documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project and preserved in the WPA Slave Narrative Collection.
Former slave Wes Brady in Marshall, Texas, in 1937 in a photo from the Slave Narrative Collection. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States (often referred to as the WPA Slave Narrative Collection) is a collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938.
I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives. University of South Carolina Press. Hill Edwards, Justene (2021). Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina. Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-54926-4. LCCN 2020038705.
Louisa Picquet (c. 1829, Columbia, South Carolina – August 11, 1896, New Richmond, Ohio) was an African American born into slavery. Her slave narrative, Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life, was published in 1861.The narrative, written by abolitionist pastor Hiram Mattison, details Picquet's experiences with subjects like sexual violence, Christianity, and ...
The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature (editor, 2006) The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride by Julia C. Collins (co-editor, 2006) Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave (co-editor, 2008) The Portable Charles Chesnutt (editor, 2008) Slave Narratives after Slavery (editor, 2011) Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave (editor ...
Focusing on the perspective of the slave, new studies incorporated the slave narratives and WPA interviews: George Rawick's From Sunup to Sundown: The Making of the Black Community (1972), Eugene D. Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (1974), Peter H. Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 ...
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I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives (2010). Ashton, Susanna, curator and author. Samuel Williams and His World (2018). Digital exhibit. Hilliard, Kathleen M. Masters, Slaves, and Exchange: Power's Purchase in the Old South (2014). McInnis, Maurie D. The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston (2005).