African American History & Culture

Slave Narratives

Collections

• African American Perspectives: — Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
• African American Voices —
• American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
• Been Here So Long: Selections from the WPA American Slave Narrative — Collection of narratives from interviews between 1936 and 1938
• Third Person, First Person — Slave Voices From the Duke University Digital Media Center
• Documents on Slavery — The Avalon Project. Yale Law School. 9/7/99.
• Excerpts from Slave Narratives — Edited by Steven Mintz, University of Houston
• From Slavery to Freedom: African American Pamphlet Collection 1824-1909
• North American Slave Narratives
• Remembering Slavery: Those Who Survived Tell Their Stories
• The Slave Narrative — Donna Campbell Department of English, Washington State University
  
• Slave Voices from the Duke University Special Collections Library
  

• Anonymous, A Slave's Story — U of Virginia E-text Collection
• Bibb, Henry Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb
• Craft, William. Running a thousand miles for freedom 1860
• Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the life Frederick Douglass, an American slave
• Hammon, Britton A narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro man 1790
• Jacobs, Harriet Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself 1861
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Truth, Sojourner, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave