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The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives

Soul of a People

Writing America’s Story

Prince among slaves
 
                                                           
                                                           
  Books on Slave Narratives                            
                                          The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives          
 

The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives edited by T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker
305.3/WPA

         
                                                 
 

The Classic Slave Narratives edited by Henry Louis Gates
326.92/CLA

   
Unchained memories : readings from the slave narratives
           
                                                     
 

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives edited by Henry Louis Gates and Cynthia Goodman
810.8896/SLA

             
 

Puttin’ on Ole Massa: The Slave Narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells, Brown, and Solomon Northup by Gilbert Osofsky
301.451/OSO

Render Me My Song: African-American Women Writers from Slavery to the Present by Sandi Russel
810.9896/RUS

 
                                          The slave narratives of Texas          
  The Slave Narratives of Texas edited by Ronnie C. Tyler
305.567/SLA
           
                                                   
 

Slavery Remembered: Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives edited by Paul D. Escott
301.4493/ESC

Black Slave Narratives by John F. Bayliss
326.92/BAY

   
                    Gabr'l blow sof' : Sumter County, Alabama slave narratives          
  Gabr’l Blow Sof’: Sumter County, Alabama Slave Narratives by Alan Brown
305.567/GAB
           
                             
  Audiovisuals on Slavery                                  
                                                           
  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave read by Jonathan Reese
CD/NF/DOU
Prince among slaves          
                                                   
  Prince Among Slaves narrated by Mos Def
DVD/DOCUMENTARY/PRI 1008
           
                                                   
  Whispers of Angels with Edward Asner and Blair Underwood
DVD/DOCUMENTARY/WHI 801
           
                 
 

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives starring Angela Bassett, Michael Boatman and Roscoe Lee Browne
VIDEO/DOCUMENTARY/UNC

 
                                          The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman          
 

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman starring Cicely Tyson and Barbara Chaney
DVD/DRAMA/AUT 944

           
                                                   
 

Information on Some of the Writers Involved with the WPA

               
                                                           
 

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd
818/HUR

Nelson Algren by Martha Heasley Cox
818/ALG

Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad
818/ELL

     
                                          Richard Wright: The Life and Times          
  Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley
818/WRI
             
                                                   
  Youth Services                                    
                                                           
 

Our Song, Our Toil: The Story of American Slavery as Told by the Slaves edited by Michele Stepto
J/973.049/OUR

In Their Own Words: A History of the American Negro, 1619-1865 edited by Milton Meltzer
J/326/MEL

To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
J/326.097/LES

Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in His Own Words by Frederick Douglass
J/921/DOU

 
                                          Night Boat to Freedom      
  Night Boat to Freedom by Margot Theis Raven
E/RAV
         
                                               
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