The document summarizes interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration between 1936-1938 with over 2,300 former slaves about their lives before emancipation. It includes brief excerpts from interviews with Charity Anderson, Tempe Herndon Durham, and Clayton Holbert describing Anderson's kind master, Durham's recollections of her childhood and slave weddings, and Holbert mentioning slave funerals and vacations. It also provides details about slave labor, relationships with owners, and notes the interviews preserve accounts from a generation that has passed.

1. Slave NarrativesVictoria Williams and CarlynThometz

2. Works Progress AdministrationInterviewed former slaves from the southern states

3. From 1936-1938

4. Over 2,300 slaves gave first hand accountsCharity AndersonInterview Date: 4/16/1937Says she had a, “happy life before the civil war.”Her master was a kind slave owner.He placed his trust upon her

5. Tempe Herndon Durham103 yrs old at interview

6. “Mammmy Rachel, she knew all the bark and berries to make dies in different colors.” -Tempe

7. Slaves who had many children were more valuable.Tempe Herndon DurhamA tradition in weddings was to jump over a broom

8. Slaves who had many children were more valuable.

9. “Before the civil war, if we were sick marse an’ mistis looked after ‘em… dey was de same as mammy and pappy.” -Tempe

10. Clayton HolbertFunerals

11. Vacation (Christmas Eve to New Years Day)