Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slaves in the United States from Interviews With Former Slaves – Arkansas Narratives, Part 1‪ ‬

*Includes 100 different slave narratives

*Illustrated with historic pictures of slavery in the South

*Includes Table of Contents

There was a marked resurgence in interest in the institution of slavery in the 1920s and 30s. Private efforts sought to preserve the life histories of former slaves before they all died.  With the advent of the New Deal, employment programs for jobless white-collar workers included the systematic collection of narratives from former slaves.  These histories are a priceless collection collected by the Works Progress Administration, and are an invaluable source of data about the South, the institution of slavery, and the memories of those who had been enslaved.

Over 2,300 stories were assembled into a 17 volume collection called Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slaves in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves.

This is Part 1 of the Arkansas collection which includes 100 narratives.  It is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and pictures of famous abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as former slaves.