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Armstrong, Orland Kay. 1939. Old Massa’s People: The Old Slaves Tell Their Story. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.

Baker, Ronald L. 1973. Folklore in the Writings of Rowland E. Robinson. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press.

Baker, T. Lindsay, and Julie P. Baker. 1996. The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press.

Baughman, Ernest W. 1966. Type and Motif Index of the Folktales of England and North America. Indiana University Folklore Series no. 20. The Hague, The Netherlands: Mouton.

Berlin, Ira, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller. 1998. Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom. New York: The New Press.

Billington, Monroe. 1982. “Black Slavery in Indian Territory.” Chronicles of Oklahoma 60 (Spring): 56–65.

Blassingame, John W. 1979. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. Rev. and enl. edition. New York: Oxford University Press.

Blassingame, John W. 1985. “Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems.” In The Slave’s Narrative, ed. Charles T. Davis and Henry Lewis Gates, Jr., 78–98. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Reprinted from Journal of Southern History 41 (November 1975): 473–492.

Blassingame, John W., ed. 1977. Slave Testimony: Two Centuries of Letters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Bontemps, Arna, ed. 1969. Great Slave Narratives. Boston: Beacon Press.

Botkin, B. A. 1944. “The Slave as His Own Interpreter.” Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Accessions 2 (July-Sept.): 37–63.

Botkin, B. A. [1945] 1989. Lay My Burden Down: A Folk History of Slavery. Reprint with foreword by Jerrold Hirsch. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press.

Cade, John B. 1935. “Out of the Mouths of Ex-Slaves.” Journal of Negro History 20: 294–337.

Carter, Robert L., comp., and David E. Vancil, ed. 1992. Indiana Federal Writers’ Project/Program Papers: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition at Indiana State University. Terre Haute: Friends of the Cunningham Memorial Library.

Clayton, Ronnie W. 1990. Mother Wit: The Ex-Slave Narratives of the Louisiana Writers’ Project. New York: P. Lang.

Dance, Daryl. 1977. “Wit and Humor in the Slave Narratives.” Journal of Afro-American Issues 5 (Spring): 125–134.

Davis, Charles T., and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. 1985. The Slave’s Narrative. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Dorson, Richard M. 1959. American Folklore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Dorson, Richard M. 1964. Buying the Wind: Regional Folklore in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Dorson, Richard M. 1967. American Negro Folktales. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett.

Dorson, Richard M. 1971. American Folklore and the Historian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Dorson, Richard M., ed. 1983. Handbook of American Folklore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Escott, Paul D. 1985a. Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Escott, Paul D. 1985b. “The Art and Science of Reading WPA Slave Narratives.” In The Slave’s Narrative, ed. Charles T. Davis and Henry Lewis Gates, Jr., 40–48. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Feldstein, Stanley. 1971. Once a Slave: The Slaves’ View of Slavery. New York: William Morrow.

Fisk University. 1945a. God Struck Me Dead: Religious Conversion Experiences and Autobiographies of Negro Ex-Slaves. Social Science Source Documents no. 2. Nashville: Fisk University.

Fisk University. 1945b. Unwritten History of Slavery: Autobiographical Account of Negro Ex-Slaves. Social Science Source Documents no. 1 Nashville: Fisk University.

Franklin, John Hope. [1947] 1974. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Georgia Writers’ Project. [1946] 1984. Drums and Shadows. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Gibbs, Wilma L., ed. 1993. Indiana’s African-American Heritage: Essays from “Black History News & Notes.” Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society.

Hirsch, Jerrold. 1984. “Portrait of America: The Federal Writers’ Project in an Intellectual and Cultural Context.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina.

Hurmence, Belinda. 1984. My Folks Dont Want Me to Talk about Slavery: Twenty-one Oral Histories of Former North Carolina Slaves. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair.

Hurmence, Belinda. 1989. Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Twenty-seven Oral Histories of Former South Carolina Slaves. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair.

Johnson, Clifton H., ed. 1969. God Struck Me Dead: Religious Conversion Experiences and Autobiographies of Ex-Slaves. Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press.

Kelley, Robin D. G. 1998. Foreword to Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom, ed. Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, and Steven F. Miller, vii–viii. New York: The New Press.

Levine, Lawrence W. 1977. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom. Oxford, London, and New York: Oxford University Press.

Lester, Julius, ed. 1968. To Be a Slave. New York: Dial.

Louisiana Writers’ Project. 1945. Gumbo Ya-Ya. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Mangione, Jerre. 1972. The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers’ Project, 1935–1943. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.

Nichols, Charles H. 1963. Many Thousand Gone: The Ex-Slaves’ Account of Their Bondage and Freedom. Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill.

Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie. 1955. The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book. London: Oxford University Press.

Osofsky, Gilbert, ed. 1969. Puttin’ On Ole Massa. New York: Harper and Row.

Penkower, Monty Noam. 1977. The Federal Writers’ Project: A Study in Government Patronage of the Arts. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Perdue, Charles L., Jr., Thomas E. Barden, and Robert K. Phillips, eds. [1976] 1980. Weevils in the Wheat: Interviews with Virginia Ex-Slaves. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press. Reprint, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1992.

Puckett, Newbell Niles. [1926] 1969. The Magic and Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro. New York: Dover.

Rawick, George P., ed. 1972. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. 19 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. Vol. 6: Alabama and Indiana Narratives.

Rawick, George P., ed. 1977. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Supplement, Series 1. 12 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. Vol. 5: Indiana and Ohio Narratives.

Rawick, George P., ed. 1979. The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Supplement, Series 2. 10 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.

Sekora, John, and Darwin T. Turner. 1982. The Art of Slave Narrative: Original Essays in Criticism and Theory. Macomb: Western Illinois University Press.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, from Interviews with Former Slaves. 1976. 17 vols. St. Clair Shores, Mich.: Scholarly Press.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. [1853] 1968. A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon Which the Story Is Founded, Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. New York: Arno.

Thompson, Stith. 1966. Motif-Index of Folk-Literature. 6 vols. Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press.

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Vlach, John Michael. Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press.

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Woodward, C. Vann. 1985. “History from Slave Sources.” In The Slave’s Narrative, ed. Charles T. Davis and Henry Lewis Gates, Jr., 49–59. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Reprinted from American Historical Review 79 (April 1974): 470–481.

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Yetman, Norman R. 1967. “The Background of the Slave Narrative Collection.” American Quarterly 19 (Fall): 534–553.

Yetman, Norman R. 1970. Voices from Slavery: Selections from the Slave Narrative Collection of the Library of Congress. Printed in paperback edition as Life under the “Peculiar Institution”: Selections from the Slave Narrative Collection. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

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