WPA Slave Narrative Lesson Plan – Additional Resources

Introduction

Guiding Questions

Learning Objectives

Lesson Activities

Lesson Resources

Additional Resources

Works Cited 

Three versions of Charlie Moses Interview:

Charlie Moses Interview in George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, Series, Supplement I: Volume 9: Part 4 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1977), 1597-1601,

Charlie Moses Interview in George P. Rawick, ed., The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, Series, Supplement I: Volume 9: Part 4, pages 1602-1603,

Charlie Moses Interview, Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, Library of Congress, March 23, 2001,

Caroline Hunter Laura Smalley (enacted by Tonea Stewart) in Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom. eds. Favreau, Marc, and Steven F. Miller. New York: New Press, 1998.

American and International Slave Narratives

Musher, Sharon. “The Other Slave Narratives: The Works Progress Administration Interviews” in John Ernest, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative. NY: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Musher, Sharon. “Contesting the ‘Way the Almighty Wants it”: Crafting Memories of Ex-Slaves in the Slave Narrative Collection,” American Quarterly, 53, no. 1 (2001).