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transfer, and ~rianumission of slaves, and other documents. As un~ published ni~nuscripts of the Federal ~1riters‘ Project these records passed into the hands of the Library of Congress Project for processing; and from them has been assembled the present col~ lection of some two thousand nan~tives from the following seven~ teen states: ~ilabaiua, ~rkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Earyland, ::ississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, ~outh Carolina,Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia~

	The work Of the writers‘ Unit in preparing the narratives for deposit in the Library of Congress consisted principally of ar~ ranging the nisnuscripts and photographs by states and alphabet1~ cally by infonriants within the states, listing the infonnants and illustrations, and collating the contents in seventeen volumes divided into thirty—three parts. The following ~~ateria1 has been omitted: ~ost of the interviews with infoi~~ants born too late to remer~ber anytdng of s~nificance regarding slavery or concerned chiefly with folklore; a few negligible frag~ents and unidentified ~.ianuscripts; (j group of Tennessee interviews showing evidence


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	The bulk of the 7ir~inia narratives is still in the scate of— fice. xcerpts from these are included in The I~egro in Virginia, compiled by Jorkers of the writers‘ Prograrn~f the ïork Projects ~&uinistra~ion in the StaLe of ~nirginia, Sponsored by the P~c~pton Institute, Hastings Touse, Thiblisiiers, i‘ew York, 1940. Other sl~tve narratives are published in Drums and Shad~s Survival ~tudies among the Georgia Coastal ~e~roei, ~v~mah Tjnit, Georgia writers‘ Project, ~Jork l~rojects ~diinistration, Tjniversity of G€orgia Pre~..: ‚ 1940. ~ co:1posite article, ~‘Slaves,“ based on ex— cerpts from three interviews, was contributed by Elizabeth Lo;ax to the A~erican Stuff issue of Direction, Vol. 1, T~o. 3, 193E.