The Slave Narrative Collection
An OKGenWeb Special Project
 

Resources

Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
Room LM101
James Madison Building
101 Independence Ave. SE
Washington, D.C. 20540-4680

 
Oklahoma Historical Society
Archives and Manuscript Division
2100 N. Lincoln Blvd
Oklahoma City, OK 73105
405-521-2491

(OHS Library has an index to the narratives, narratives that OHS has are all housed in Archive and Manuscript Division in boxes by alpha order of name on interview. The index cannot be copied, interviews can be copied.) 

Selected Readings

"The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives" by T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker. University of Oklahoma Press 1996

"Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies" by John W. Blassingame.  Louisiana State University Press 1977

"The Slave Narrative" by Charles T. Davis and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Oxford University Press, 1985.

"Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives" by Paul D. Escott. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979.

"Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made" by Eugene D. Genovese. New York: Pantheon, 1974.

"Index to the American Slave" by Donald M. Jacobs. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press 1981

"Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, From slavery to the Present" by Jacqueline Jones. New York: Basic Books, 1985

"Celia: A Slave" by Melton McLaurin. University of Georgia Press, 1991, New York: Avon Books, 1993.

"The African in the Garden: Reflections About New World Slavery and its Lifelines" by Leslie H. Owens, in Darlene Clark Hien, ed. "The State of Afro-American History: Past, Present, and Future. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986.

"Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves" by Charles L. Perdue, Jr., Thomas E. Barden and Robert K. Phillips. University Press of Virginia, 1976

"A comprehensive Name Index for the American Slave" by Howard E. Potts. Greenwood Press, 1997.

"The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography" 41 volumes, by George P. Rawick. Greenwood Press, 1972-76-79.

"From Sundown to Sunup: The Making of the Black Community" by Geroge P. Rawick. Greenwood Press, 1972

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