My preference is to draw heavily from the words of actual former slaves. There are even sound clips available and there is a distinct emotional draw to hearing a story in the actual voice of a former slave.

These narratives were collected in the 1930's by the WPA. Go to
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
to hear some sound clips and see some text from this project.

Bryan Howard
Southwest Museum Services

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