Sources: Slave Culture: A Documentary Collection of the Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project

Abstract

Although primary source content from the Slave Narratives of the Federal Writers' Project exists in many other locations and formats, Slave Culture is the first reference work that attempts to order selected narratives from these collections into thematic categories, allowing readers to "better understand what aspects of enslavement reverberated most forcefully for them [the interviewees] as well as why they [the aspects] were important" (xi).