print email comment close Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 URL: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/ Description: "More than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves" collected as part of the Federal Writers' Project during the Depression. It was originally published as the seventeen-volume "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves" (1941). Search by keyword or browse the narratives and photographs. From the American Memory Project, Library of Congress. Publisher: Library of Congress Library of Congress Subject Headings: African Americans -- History Black History Month Slaves -- United States -- Biography LII Database Information: Record 847 created by Dana Lubow on 04/06/2001 Last modification on 12/18/2008 Published: 04/06/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/847