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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.
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]
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.
The French Creole raised-style [2] [3] main house, built in 1790, is an important architectural example in the state.The plantation has numerous outbuildings or "dependencies": a pigeonnier or dovecote, a plantation store, the only surviving French Creole barn in North America (ca. 1790), a detached kitchen, an overseer's house, a mule barn, and two slave dwellings.
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 ...
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Old Louisiana Plantation Homes And Family Trees. Pelican Press. ISBN 1-58980-263-2. Federal Writers' Project (1947). Louisiana: A guide to the state. US History Publishers. ISBN 1603540172. Patton Malone, Anne (1996). Sweet Chariot: Slave Family and Household Structure in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN ...