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.
The 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.
Works Progress Administration Slave Narratives, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
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the Library of Congress American Memory Project's