Slave Narratives

First-person testimony of enslaved and formerly enslaved people, preserving in their own words the experience of bondage, resistance and the long reach toward freedom in America.

At a glance There is no substitute for the voice of a person who lived through slavery describing it… What it's about This collection gathers first-person accounts of enslavement in America… The recollections move through the daily conditions of bondage, the labour and the… Told in the words of the people themselves, they set individual lives against the vast…

This collection gathers first-person accounts of enslavement in America, testimony given by those who endured it.