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Description:
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Transcripts of interviews with former slaves.
Between 1936 and 1938, the WPA Federal Writers' Project hired field workers to collect the life histories of former slaves. Transcripts for 2,000 interviews, from seventeen states, were then compiled by the Library of Congress.
In 1972, George Rawick assembled the Library's collection -- over 10,000 typescript pages -- in The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. In 1997, the collection was indexed by Howard Potts for A Comprehensive Name Index for The American Slave.
Now, the collection and the index are available together for the first time in an online, searchable database.
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Access:
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Available only to current students, faculty and staff of The University of Tulsa. |
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Full Text:
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Yes |
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Provider: | Greenwood Publishing Group |
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Print Equivalent: |
The American slave a composite autobiography / [edited by] George P. Rawick; Call No.: E441 .A58; Library has: the original 19 vols, plus the 2 supplements (series 1 and series 2) and the index which covers the main work and both supplements. |
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