Oral Histories and Slave Narratives

Oral histories of people who were slaves before the U.S. Civil War have been collected in various places. “Slave narrative” describes a genre of nonfiction (usually) writing, usually autobiographies published in the 19th century by people who were enslaved.

Oral Histories

• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/
• http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/