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Slave Narratives, A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1

Volume 11 / Part 1 — PART I

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Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Carolina

Transcriber's Note:

To reflect the individual character of this document, inconsistencies in formatting have been retained.

The interview headers presented here contain all information included in the original, but may have been rearranged for readability.

Some interviews were date-stamped; these dates have been added to interview headers. Where part of date could not be determined a — has been substituted.

In general, typographical errors have been left in place to match the original images. In the case where later editors have hand-written corrections, and simple typographical errors have been silently corrected. In addition, punctuation and formatting have been made consistent, particularly the use of quotation marks. Some corrections have been noted with a mouse hover. [HW: *] denotes a Handwritten Note.

Added two lines to list of illustrations missing from original.

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