Audio Interviews With African American Former Slaves



Beginning in the late 1930s, the American government took an interest in preserving the stories of the aging population of African American former slaves. Thousands of interviews were conducted as part of the Federal Writers Project, and the transcripts of those interviews are available to the public. In later years, some interviews were conducted in which the audio was recorded. Some of these recordings are included below.
Name	Date	Length
Joe McDonald	1940	4:04
Alice Gaston	1941	3:08
Harriet Smith	1941	8:50
Laura Smalley	1941	14:27
Charlie Smith	1975	13:33
Fountain Hughes	Unknown	2:11

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