Quantitative Data Coded from the Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives, United States, 1936-1938

This project entailed recording and coding information from slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers' Project. Between 1936 and 1938, federal authorities organized teams of interviewers in seventeen states who gathered the recollections of over two thousand former slaves. The typescript of these interviews, running to more than ten thousand pages, was deposited in the Library of Congress and has been available on microfiche for many years. Information on the actions, attitudes, beliefs and experiences of slaves was coded from 2,358 slave narratives.

本项研究涉及对联邦作家计划收集的奴隶口述史进行记录与编码。自1936年至1938年，联邦当局在十七个州组织了访谈团队，收集了超过两千名前奴隶的回忆录。这些访谈的手稿，总计超过一万页，已被存档于国会图书馆，并且多年来可通过缩微胶卷查阅。来自2358篇奴隶口述史中有关奴隶的行为、态度、信仰及经历的信息被进行了编码。