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.