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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.
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 ...
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.
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South is a book written by American historian John W. Blassingame.Published in 1972, it is one of the first historical studies of slavery in the United States to be presented from the perspective of the enslaved.
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[2] [3] [4] O'Neall summarized the 1740 South Carolina law when he stated: "A slave may, by the consent of his master, acquire and hold personal property. All, thus required, is regarded in law as that of the master." [5] [3] Across the South, state supreme courts supported the position of this law. [6]
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).