Hi, Everyone,
I may be the last one to have found these, but I just wanted to mention that there are
numerous interviews with former slaves offered FREE on Kindle. These were part of the WPA,
mostly 1937. If you go to the Kindle store and search "Slave Narratives,"
you'll find them listed by state. These are sorted by the state where the person lived
at the time of the interview. They are in alphabetical order by the last name, and in some
cases, grouped by town or county. I don't have a Kindle, so perhaps more features
would be available if I did. In the many hours I spend at my dad's nursing home,
I'm downloading them to my Android phone. Fascinating stories, not just about slavery,
but daily life and customs. Most stories are not grim, but some are shocking.
Of course, during the Great Depression, most of the interviewees did not have financial
security or enough to eat most days. Some looked at slavery as the good old days when they
had plenty of food.
So far, I've found a good many from Athens, and none yet for Gwinnett County. However,
some of the most interesting were the ones in Texas, because most were removed from their
original homes and moved many hundreds of miles to rough territory. Also, many of the
Texas interviews included photographs.
Hope everyone is enjoying this rainy, cold, gray day. :-)
Pat in Gwinnett