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SLAVE NARRATIVES

A Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves

TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY
THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT

1936-1938

ASSEMBLED BY
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT
WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Illustrated with Photographs

WASHINGTON 1941

VOLUME XI

NORTH CAROLINA NARRATIVES

PART I

Prepared by
the Federal Writers' Project of
the Works Progress Administration
for the State of North Carolina

Transcriber's Note:

To reflect the individual character of this document, inconsistenciesin formatting have been retained.

The interview headers presented here contain all information includedin the original, but may have been rearranged for readability.

Some interviews were date-stamped; these dates have been added tointerview headers. Where part of date could not be determined a — hasbeen substituted.

In general, typographical errors have been left in place to match theoriginal images. In the case where later editors have hand-writtencorrections, and simple typographical errors have been silently corrected.In addition, punctuation and formatting have beenmade consistent, particularly the use of quotation marks.Some corrections have been noted with a mouse hover. [HW: *] denotes a Handwritten Note.

Added two lines to list of illustrations missing from original.


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