TY - BOOK AU - United StatesWork Projects Administration TI - Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 1 AV - E300 PY - 2009/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Texas -- Biography KW - Enslaved persons -- Texas -- Biography KW - African Americans -- Texas -- Interviews KW - African Americans -- Texas -- History -- Sources N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Narrative_Collection; Release date is 2009-12-02; Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division); Original publication data not identified N2 - "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. The work preserves over 2,000 interviews with formerly enslaved people, documenting their memories and experiences. While invaluable for capturing stories that would otherwise have been lost, the collection remains controversial due to its primarily white interviewers and questions about how race relations shaped these testimonies during the Jim Crow era. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30576 ER -