The narratives were copied word for word including most of the misspellings that occurred in the original. The spelling errors give some sense that the Federal Writers' Project employed writers who may have been somewhat less than Professionals

In this Texas collection there are interviews with over 600 ex-slaves, as well as interviews with whites old enough at the time to have remembered slavery. All narratives that displayed even the slightest change from those originally published have been included; in all but a few cases the changes are substantive. The interviews with whites provide a contrasting backdrop against which to read the ex-slave narratives. A few of the ex-slaves were interviewed together with a spouse or some other close relative, and in those cases two ex-slaves are presented. To view some of the items deleted for the ex-slaves narratives click the Dove at the bottome of this page

Cain, Louis	Calhoun, Jeff	photo with narrative    Campbell, Simpson	photo with narrative    Cape, James	Carruthers, Richard
photo with narrative    Carter, Cato	Carthen, Albert "Allen"	Cauthern, Jack	photo with narrative    Chamber, Lucy	Chambers, Sally Banks
Chappell, Clara	Chesley, Harriet	Childers, Henry	Choice, Jeptha	Christopher, Anthony
Clark, Amos	photo with narrative    Clark, Anne	Coker, Abraham	Cole, Alice	Cole, Harrison
Cole Hattie	Cole Thomas	Coleman, Betty	Coleman, Eli	photo with narrative    Coleman, Preely
Coleman, William	Collins, Bill	Collins, Harriet	Columbus, Andrew	Compton, Jake
Compton, Josephine 'Tippit" Wife of Jake Compton	photo with narrative    Connally, Steve	Cooper, Charlie	Cooper, Lucius	photo with narrative    Cormier, Valmar
Cornish, Laura	Cotton, Jane	photo with narrative    Cox, Elijah	Craft, Sue	photo with narrative    Crawford, John
photo with narrative    Cumby, Green	photo with narrative    Cummins, Temple "Tempie"	photo with narrative    Cunningham, Adeline	Curry, Kate	Amazing Grace