Slave Narrative Files

The donor used these interviews to conduct research on speech patterns and language used by the former slaves. The donor also prepared two "dictionary" files used to track and compare linguistic characteristics of the interviews.

This series consists of electronic transcriptions of a sample of interviews of former slaves conducted by the Wor ks Progress Administration in the late 1930's. The original interviews are in the publication "Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves." This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.