HIST157b: Marginalized Voices and the Writing of History

Collection of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, songs, and other texts, images, and audio files related to the history of the South and to Southern culture and literature

Includes autobiographical narratives and biographies of fugitive and former slaves, as well as fictionalized slave narratives

Includes records of voyages, estimates of slave trade, and a database of the names and biographical information of over 91,000 Africans who were enslaved

A sample of slave narratives gathered through the WPA interviews of former slaves

Audio recordings of WPA slave narratives. From the Library of Congress.

Includes over 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 photographs of former slaves. From the Library of Congress.

Maps documentary evidence about the end of slavery during the Civil War.

Textual analysis tool for the study of slave narratives