Slave biographies

Interviews with former slaves

Much less well known than autobiographical slave narratives, the biographies of slaves or former slaves constitute an abundant resource for the study of the nineteenth-century slave narrative tradition.

  • Famous slave narratives

    • Famous slave narratives

  • From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit: The Autobiography of Rev. Peter Randolph: The Southern Question Illustrated and Sketches of Slave Life. Boston: James H. Earle, 1893. Smith, Amanda, 1837-1915.

    • Slave narratives book

    Descriptions of all slaves and their manumissions found in documents of all kinds in all jurisdictions of French, Spanish, and early American Lower Louisiana.

  • An open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network is an open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. It includes the names, ethnicities, skills, occupations, and illnesses of individual slaves.
  • This section of the bibliography lists biographies published in English before 1940 that were written by or about slaves or former slaves. This section of the bibliography lists biographies published in English before 1940 that were written by or about slaves or former slaves. Much less well known than autobiographical slave narratives, the biographies of slaves or former slaves constitute an abundant resource for the study of the nineteenth-century slave narrative tradition.
  • A narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprizing deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man,---Servant to General Winslow, of Marshfield, in New-England. Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama. New York: American Anti-slavery Society, 1838. Wheeler, Peter, b. 1789. Chains and Freedom: Or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man Yet Living. A Slave in Chains, a Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the.
  • About this Collection - Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives ... Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA). At the conclusion of the.
  • Slave Narratives: Chronological List of Biographies Maranhão Inventories Slave Database (MISD) Principal Investigator: Walter Hawthorne. Summary: Information about the lives of about 8,500 slaves in Maranhāo from the mid-eighteenth century through the early nineteenth century.
  • Resources Slave Datasets Available Online. Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1918-1820 http://www.ibiblio.org/laslave/ Dr. Midlo Hall's extensive database on 18th.
  • First-person accounts of slavery

    • Slave narratives pdf

      So far the most extensive database on the slave trade. The time period is from 1514 to 1866. You can narrow searches by shortening that time period, or through searching by ship, nation, voyage dates, voyage outcome, voyage itinerary, owners, captain and crew, characteristics of slaves, number of slaves, or sources.

    First-person accounts of slavery

    The Slave Biographies project is an open access repository of information on the identities of enslaved persons in the Atlantic World. As persons were bought and sold in the Atlantic slave trade, they left behind them a wealth of biographical data, including certificates of indenture, marriage records, birth records, estate sales, etc.

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