This edition includes the transcripts of hundreds of interviews made with former slaves in the period of 1930-1975. The collection consists of powerful testimonies by vivid characters, their incredible life stories and messages that should never be forgotten:
Interview with George Johnson
Aunt Harriet Smith
Uncle Bob Ledbetter
Wallace Quarterman
Alice Gaston
Uncle Billy McCrea
Joe McDonald
Isom Moseley
Interview with Mrs. Jessie
Interview with Mrs. Williams
Laura Smalley
Fountain Hughes
Interview with Annie Williams
Interview with Celia Black
Interview with Charlie Smith
Charlie Aarons
Anthony Abercrombie
Molly Ammond (Ammonds)
Charity Anderson
Gus Askew
Tom Baker
Henry Barnes
Nathan Beauchamp
Oliver Bell
Nelson Birdsong
Ank Bishop
Siney Bonner
Jennie Bowen
Nannie Bradfield
Martha Bradley
Allen Brown
Gus Brown
Walter Calloway
Esther King Casey
Amy Chapman
Emma Chapman
Henry Cheatam
Laura Clark
Hattie Clayton
Wadley "Shorty" Clemons
William Colbert
Tildy Collins
Sara Colquitt
Mandy McCullough Cosby
Emma Crockett
Cheney Cross
Matilda Pugh Daniel
Carrie Davis
Clara Davis
George Dillard
Ella Dilliard
Rufus Dirt
Katherine Eppes
Reuben Fitzpatrick
Heywood Ford
Bert Frederick
Delia Garlic
Angie Garrett
Henry Garry
Isaac Adams
Alice Alexander
Phoebe Banks
Nancy Rogers Bean
Prince Bee
Lewis Bonner
Francis Bridges
John Brown
Sallie Carder
Betty Foreman Chessier
Polly Colbert
George Conrad, Jr
Martha Cunningham
William Curtis
Lucinda Davis
Anthony Dawson
Alice Douglass
Doc Daniel Dowdy
Joanna Draper
Esther Easter
Eliza Evans and many more