In the 1930s, thousands of former American slaves were interviewed and their narratives were housed in archives. I WAS A SLAVE contains the ex-slaves' dictated words primarily in southern dialect along with photographs. Book 4: The Breeding of Slaves is a collection of the memories of formerly enslaved people who observed the treatment of men and women who were used to breed more slaves. They describe how the forced and convoluted system worked. Breeders themselves tell their own stories in vivid details.