First Person Narritives
African Americans
1800 ~ 1870

First Person Narratives ~ diaries, letters, poetry, short stories, interviews 
for example ~ 

            Documenting the American South which has slave narratives, literature, first person narratives, church in the Black community, Southern home front . . .
Sponsored by The University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

            Voices From the Days of Slavery Former slaves tell their stories. Seven hours of recorded interviews took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s. During a 1941 AUDIO INTERVIEW, Isom Moseley age 85, talks about making molasses, soap, and tanning hides. 

From The Library of Congress ~ American Memory