United States. Work Projects Administration creator text utu 2006 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from…" is a collection of oral histories compiled between 1936 and 1938 by the Federal Writers' Project. More than 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved people across seventeen states preserved their firsthand accounts before they were lost forever. These testimonies, conducted primarily by white interviewers during the Great Depression, sparked debate about bias and authenticity while offering irreplaceable glimpses into both antebellum slavery and Jim Crow-era race relations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection Release date is 2006-10-03 Produced by Laura Wisewell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division) Original publication data not identified Slave narratives -- Arkansas Enslaved persons -- Arkansas -- Biography Enslaved persons -- Arkansas -- Social conditions Slavery -- Arkansas African Americans -- Arkansas -- Biography E300 Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19446 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19446 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133444.0 19446