"No! No! Oh! No! You had better not dare let white people know that you could read, in those days."
(Mary Colbert, Athens, GA)
Library of Congress, “Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938.” [Manuscript Division]
Library of Congress, “Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories.” Audio recordings of 26 formerly enslaved Americans.
Applewood Books/Library of Congress: Facsimile printed editions of selected interviews.
Project Gutenberg: open-access e-book versions of the 1941 version of Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
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