Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936–1938, http://memory.loc.gov. This website contains more than twenty-three hundred first-person accounts of slavery and five hundred black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives and photographs were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.

Documenting the American South, http://docsouth.unc.edu. This website is a collection of sources on southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the twentieth century. It is organized into several projects according to subject, such as “First-Person Narratives of the American South,” “North American Slave Narratives,” and “The Church in the...