The Slave Narratives Collection contains 2000+ interviews conducted from 1936-38 with people born into slavery. They’re priceless first-person accounts of how enslaved men & women suffered, saw the world, and sought freedom. They’re free to read at the Library of Congress - and worth reading. (2/7)
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These na...
For enslaved men and women, birds meant forced labor. Victor Duhon, born into slavery in Louisiana, recalled that on his plantation there was “a slave for to hunt all the time. He didn’t do other things.” Women & children were forced to drive birds from fields all day and night. (3/7)
