Descriptive Summary
Works Progress
Administration.
Works Progress
Administration Records: Slave Narratives
Materials are written in
English.
2 ft., 4 in.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History,
The University of Texas at Austin
The WPA Slave Narratives comprise over 200 narratives of
ex-slaves collected by the Works Progress Administration. Counties surveyed
include Coryell, Dallas, El Paso Ellis, Frio, Galveston, Harrison, Hill,
Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Kinney, McLennan, Medina, Navarro, Newton, Potter,
Tarrant, Travis, and Val Verde Counties.
Scope and ContentsThe WPA Slave Narratives comprise over
200 narratives of ex-slaves collected by the Works Progress Administration.
Counties surveyed include Coryell, Dallas, El Paso Ellis, Frio, Galveston,
Harrison, Hill, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Kinney, McLennan, Medina, Navarro,
Newton, Potter, Tarrant, Travis, and Val Verde Counties.
OrganizationThe slave narratives in this series of the
WPA Records are arranged by county, and each county is assigned to a district.
Within each district, individuals are alphabetized by surname.
Some of
the narratives originally included photographs, and these photos are now
located in a single box.
Preferred CitationSlave Narratives, Works Progress
Administration Records, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin.
Related MaterialForms part of the
Works Progress Administration Records.
For
access to more slave narratives, visit the Library of Congress American Memory
Project's
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the
Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 .
Detailed Description of the Papers
Inventory
4H357
District 1:
4H357
A-Z: Harrison County
4H358
District 3:
4H358
A-W: Jasper County, Jefferson County, and Newton
County
4H359
District 4:
4H359
C-W: Dallas County
4H359
District 6:
4H359
A-W: Galveston County and Harris County
4H359
District 7:
4H359
A-P: Tarrant County
4H360
District 7:
4H360
R-Y: Tarrant County
4H360
District 8:
4H360
A-M: Coryell County, Ellis County, Hill County,
Johnson County, McLennan County, and Navarro County
4H361
District 8:
4H361
N-Z: Coryell County, Ellis County, Hill County,
Johnson County, McLennan County, and Navarro County
4H361
District 9:
4H361
A-Z: Travis County
4J295
District 10:
4J295
A-Z: Kinney County
4J295
District 15:
4J295
A-Z: Frio County, Kinney County, Medina County, Val
Verde County
4J295
District 16:
4J295
A-Z: Potter County
4J295
District 20:
4J295
A-Z: El Paso County
4J295
Miscellaneous Interviews:
4J295
Abilene, TX; Bexar County; Bowie County; Brown
County; Brownwood, TX; Cherokee County; Coriscana, TX; Falls County; Houston,
TX; Nacogdoches County; San Angelo, TX; San Augustine County; Tyler, TX;
Wichita Falls, TX.
3S456
Photographs of individual former slaves