Preserve a part of history as viewed through an individual who experienced it. Focus on anyone from your family or community and follow our comprehensive guide for creating narratives. When you're done, share your story with other classes around the country and find out what treasures were uncovered by other students at www.timeclassroom.com/histories.

Web Resources

The Library of Congress: American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
Look at manuscripts, prints and photos of the Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project.

New Deal Network
http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/
Use this database of photographs, political cartoons, and texts (speeches, letters, and other historic documents from the New Deal period) to access a wealth of information about the American Slave Narratives.

The Library of Congress: Works Progress Administration
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam012.html
Find information on WPA projects, authors and the Federal Writers' Project, and the Slave Narratives.

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography
http://www.slavenarratives.com/
Search through a collection of narratives, participate in discussion forums for educators, and have your own private "classroom" equipped with real-time chat, discussion boards, and lesson plans.

PBS: Slave narratives and Uncle Tom's Cabin
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2958.html
Link Unchained Memories and the slave narratives to literature and the spread of information about slavery.

Print Resources

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
by Spencer Crew, et al
Bulfinch Press

Slave Narratives (Library of America)
by William L. Andrews (Editor)
Library of America

Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives
by Norman R. Yetman (Editor)
Dover Pubns

The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives
by T. Lindsay Baker (Editor), et al
Univ of Oklahoma Pr