Publisher's Synopsis
A companion to the Slave Narratives, this CD brings together from many states real audio recordings of former slaves as they were recorded in the field in the 1930s by interviewers of the Federal Writer's Project. On this CD, you can hear former slaves tell their life stories and sing their long-remembered songs. This invaluable treasure-trove of oral history, through the power of voices of those now gone, brings back to life the people who lived in slavery.