- "Over six thousand such narratives are estimated to exist."
Slave Narratives are a venerable genre of African American literature which records the experiences of Africans kidnapped from their family members, descendants, and captured interests from the continent of Africa, brought against their will to work on the plantations of North and South America under bondage and how they struggled to attain their freedom.
- "About 150 narratives were published as separate books or pamphlets."
- "In the United States during the Great Depression (1930s), more than 2,300 additional oral histories on life during slavery were collected."
- "Writers sponsored and published by the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program."
- "Most of the 26 audio-recorded interviews are held by the Library of Congress."
- "White Europeans and later Americans, captured and sometimes enslaved in North Africa by local Muslims, usually Barbary pirates."
- "These were part of a broad category of 'captivity narratives'."
- "North African accounts did not continue to compile after the Napoleonic Era."
- "Accounts from North Americans, captured by western tribes migrating west continued until the end of the 19th century."
- "Given the problem of international contemporary slavery in the 20th and 21st centuries, additional slave narratives are being written and published."
- "The slave narrative is a type of literary genre."
- "Enslaved Africans, particularly in the Americas."
- "More than 2,300 additional oral histories on life during slavery were collected."
- "Writers sponsored and published by the Works Progress Administration."
- "A New Deal program."
- "Most of the 26 audio-recorded interviews are held by the Library of Congress."
- "White Europeans and later Americans."
- "Local Muslims, usually Barbary pirates."
- "After the Napoleonic Era."
- "Until the end of the 19th century."