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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.
This is a list of slave traders operating within the present-day boundaries of Texas before 1865, including the eras of Spanish Texas (before 1821), Mexican Texas (1821–1836), the Republic of Texas (1836–1846), and antebellum U.S. and Confederate Texas (1846–1865). Tom Banks, Richmond and Texas [1] Daniel Berry, Tennessee and Texas [2]
Slave Houses, Gregg Plantation is a set of two historic log slave cabins located on the campus of Francis Marion University at Mars Bluff, Florence County, South Carolina. There were originally 8 cabins, but only these two remnants survive. They were built before 1831, and occupied until the early 1950s.
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.
A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America. Stroud, George M. (George McDowell), 1795-187; An Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives. Yetman, Norman R. When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection. Yetman, Norman R. Prison & Slavery - A Surprising Comparison. Gleissner ...
George Dillard's oral history was recorded in 1936 for the Slave Narrative Collection by the Federal Writers' Project. Notable FWP projects included the Slave Narrative Collection, a set of interviews that culminated in more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. [4]
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A history of the Freedmen's Bureau. University of Pennsylvania. Osthaus, Carl R. (1976). Freedmen, philanthropy, and fraud: a history of the Freedman's Savings Bank. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252003059. Walker, Clarence E. (1982). A Rock in a Weary Land: The African Methodist Episcopal Church During the Civil War and Reconstruction ...