Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VI, Kansas Narratives

United States Work Projects Administration

These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project Administration. They consist of verbatim records of personal interviews with former slaves conducted during 1936-1938

"These life histories, taken down as far as possible in the narrators' words, constitute an invaluable body of unconscious evidence or indirect source material, . . . The narratives belong to folk history—history recovered from the memories and lips of participants or eye-witnesses,” This is Volume Six, comprising 3 narratives, for the state of Kansas, in a series of 34 volumes. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology), Modern (20th C)

Language: English

Group: Slave Narratives

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Clayton Holbert Donald Warren
00:11:17
Play 02 Bill Simms Donald Warren
00:11:38
Play 03 Belle Williams Donald Warren
00:07:16