Spotlight on Books
 

In the 1930s, thousands of former American slaves were still alive. The U.S. government hired writers to search throughout the South. They wrote as these elderly people dictated their full life stories with vivid details. The writers typed the pages that then were stored in government archives for decades. Few Americans know that they exist. The I WAS A SLAVE Book Collection is published entirely in their unedited words, along with their photos taken during the interviews and photographs of enslaved individuals and slave cabins taken during the Civil War.

Please read their amazing words on the site: IWASASLAVE.com