Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume X, Missouri Narratives
United States Work Projects Administration
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These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project Administration. They consist of verbatim records of personal interviews with former slaves conducted during 1936-1938
"These life histories, taken down as far as possible in the narrators' words, constitute an invaluable body of unconscious evidence or indirect source material, . . . The narratives belong to folk history—history recovered from the memories and lips of participants or eye-witnesses,” This is Volume Tern, comprising 74 narratives, for the state of Missouri, in a series of 34 volumes. - Summary by Larry Wilson (11 hr 15 min)
Chapters
| James Monroe Abbot | 9:48 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Betty Abernathy | 3:23 | Read by fshort |
| Hannah Allen | 16:25 | Read by fshort |
| W.C. Parson Allen | 4:15 | Read by Kenneth the Teller |
| Charles Gabriel Anderson | 7:15 | Read by Likestoread |
| Jane Baker | 2:23 | Read by Kenneth the Teller |
| Mary A. Bell | 9:18 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| William Black | 4:58 | Read by fshort |
| George Bollinger | 14:46 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Annie Bridges | 9:30 | Read by Kenneth the Teller |
| Betty Brown | 11:34 | Read by Louise Jaeschke |
| Steve Brown / Richard Bruner | 6:34 | Read by fshort |
| Robert Bryant | 15:35 | Read by fshort |
| Alex Bufford | 5:51 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Harriet Casey | 7:10 | Read by Louise Jaeschke |
| Joe Casey | 5:23 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Lula Chambers / Emmaline Cope | 7:42 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Peter Corn | 21:27 | Read by tombooker |
| Ed Craddock / Isabelle Daniel | 5:00 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Henry Dant | 3:50 | Read by Kenneth the Teller |
| Lucy Davis | 4:32 | Read by Louise Jaeschke |
| Mary Divine | 7:42 | Read by Louise Jaeschke |
| Mary Douthit / John Estell | 3:59 | Read by Kenneth the Teller |
| Smoky Eulenberg | 5:03 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Ann Ulrich Evans | 11:15 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| James Goings | 3:34 | Read by Kenneth the Teller |
| Rachael Goings | 14:01 | Read by fshort |
| Sarah Frances Shaw Graves (Aunt Sally) | 20:26 | Read by Carl Thomas |
| Emily Camster Green | 7:34 | Read by Louise Jaeschke |
| Lou Griffin | 4:11 | Read by Kenneth the Teller |
| Louis Hamilton | 4:01 | Read by Kenneth the Teller |
| Fil Hancock | 22:13 | Read by Michael Earley |
| Dave Harper | 10:39 | Read by Donald Warren |
| Clara McNeely Harrell | 3:28 | Read by Kenneth the Teller |
| Joe Higgerson | 10:32 | Read by Lyndon Ashworth |
| Delia Hill | 7:29 | Read by Louise Jaeschke |
| Louis Hill | 11:40 | Read by Lyndon Ashworth |
| Rhody Holsell | 21:25 | Read by fshort |
| Henry Johnson | 13:55 | Read by Lyndon Ashworth |
| Hannah Jones | 5:49 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Emma Knight | 6:44 | Read by Louise Jaeschke |
| Harriet Lee | 3:26 | Read by Kenneth the Teller |
| Mattie Lee | 7:46 | Read by Louise Jaeschke |
| Wes Lee | 4:24 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Perry McGee | 12:07 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| John McGuire | 5:11 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Eliza Madison | 3:17 | Read by Kenneth the Teller |
| Drucilla and Richard Martin | 12:59 | Read by Louise Jaeschke |
| Hattie Matthews | 8:35 | Read by Louise Jaeschke |
| Letha Taylor Meeks | 9:31 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Wylie Miller | 4:13 | Read by Lyndon Ashworth |
| Lewis Mundy | 5:38 | Read by Jacob M. |
| Malinda Murphy / Margaret Nickens | 7:12 | Read by Claudia Fernandes |
| Eliza Overton | 7:47 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Delicia Ann Wiley Patterson (Lucinda) | 11:34 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Marilda Pethy | 11:53 | Read by TriciaG |
| Susan Rhodes | 10:32 | Read by MamaPhish |
| Charlie Richardson | 19:15 | Read by Jacob M. |
| Madison Frederick Ross | 9:02 | Read by Lyndon Ashworth |
| Alice Sewell | 13:18 | Read by Louise Jaeschke |
| Perry Sheppard / Franks Sides / Mollie Renfro Sides | 7:50 | Read by Louise Jaeschke |
| Jane Simpson | 10:02 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Clay Smith | 4:35 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Gus Smith | 24:09 | Read by Michael Earley |
| Ann Stokes | 12:59 | Read by fshort |
| Edward Taylor | 7:20 | Read by Lyndon Ashworth |
| Tishey Taylor | 12:59 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Louis Thomas | 7:15 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Jane Thompson | 3:49 | Read by Kenneth the Teller |
| Sarah Waggoner | 12:47 | Read by fshort |
| Minksie (Minksy) Walker | 8:42 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| James Wilson | 5:06 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Mintie Gilbert Wood | 7:55 | Read by Nancy Gorgen |
| Ellaine Wright / Sim Younger | 10:15 | Read by Michael Earley |