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| A Folk History of Slavery Background of the WPA | |
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| Interviews Presentation of Material Living and Working on the Plantation | |
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| The Treatment of Slaves Escaping from Slavery Education | |
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| Religion Folklore Recollections of the Civil War | |
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| Living and Working after the Civil War | |
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| Value of the WPA Interviews | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The WPA Interviews with Former Slaves | |
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| I'll Eat You Up Like a Dog | |
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| The Life of a Roustabout is the Life of a Dog | |
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| I Have No Way of Knowing Exactly How Old I Am | |
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| Slaves Were Not Taught the Three Rs | |
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| That Was the Way He Went When He Was Trying to Get Away | |
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| That's How Some Escaped to Canada | |
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| Runaway Slaves Would Kill the Dogs Chasing Them and Never Be Caught | |
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| Many Blacks with Only Their Clothing Crossed the River | |
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| Religion is Worth the Greatest Fortune | |
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| They Were Whipped Often and Hard | |
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| Free? Is Anybody Ever Free? | |
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| A Much Easier Time before She Was Free | |
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| Our Lives, Though Happy, Have Been Continuously Ones of Hard Work | |
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| If Anyone Said Anything Against the Negroes, There Was a Fuss | |
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| Living in the Big House | |
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| Arrested in Indiana, Jailed in Louisville | |
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| When Lincoln Freed Us, We Rejoiced | |
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| Women Had to Split Rails All Day Long Just Like the Men | |
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| He Had a Great Desire to Go Up North and See the Country | |
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| Yes, the Road Has Been Long | |
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| Yes, I Know A Lot about Boats | |
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| A Mean Old Devil | |
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| I Wish the Whole World Would Be Decent | |
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| Her Owner Was a Mean Man | |
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| And Did We Eat! | |
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| Educated Slaves Forged Passes and Escaped to Northern States | |
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| Slaves Always Prayed to God for Freedom | |
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| The Village Witch | |
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| Misery Days | |
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| I Got Religion | |
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| Almost Sold Down the River | |
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| Auctioned Off More Times Than He Had Fingers and Toes | |
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| A Slaveholder Kept Many Black Women in His House | |
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| Ignorance of the Bible Caused All the Trouble | |
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| One of the Saddest Events That Could Happen to a Mother | |
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| Some of the Folks Was Mean to Me | |
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| They Poured Out Their Religious Feelings in Their Spirituals | |
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| Most the Time We's Hungry, but We Win The War | |
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| Twelve Children Were Taken from My Mother in One Day! | |
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| Indian Slaves | |
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| The First Black in Lake County | |
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| I Have Sang Myself to Death | |
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| Slaves Were Treated as Well as Could Be Expected | |
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| He Liked Indianapolis So Well That He Decided to Stay | |
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| We Used to Have Some Fine Times | |
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| Escaping from Ku Kluxers | |
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| If Anyone Got Paid for Her Family's History, She Wanted the Money | |
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| Buried Treasure on the Old Stephen Lee Place | |
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| Valued at $1,200, He Was Permitted to Buy His Freedom | |
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| Many Times She Had Nothing to Eat | |
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| Her Master Was Also Her Father, so She Was Always Well Treated | |
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| All He Was Given Was a Three-Legged Horse to Start Live Anew | |
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| Northerners Would Not Trust Them | |
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| I Believe a Little in Dreams | |
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| A Very Kind Old Man | |
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| They Came to | |
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