We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard edited by Belinda Hurmence

In the 1930s, the Federal Writers’ Project undertook a massive effort at gathering the oral testimony of former slaves. Those ex-slaves were in their declining years by the time of the Great Depression, but Elizabeth Sparks, Elige Davison, and others like them nonetheless provided a priceless record of life under the yoke: where slaves lived, how they were treated, what they ate, how they worked, how they adjusted to freedom.  

We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard is a compilation of 21 personal accounts of slavery in Virginia. Soft cover.

Belinda Hurmence was born in Oklahoma, raised in Texas, and educated at the University of Texas and Columbia University.  She has written several novels for young people and edited companion volumes to this book, including Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember and My Folks Don’t Want Me To Talk About Slavery. 
Soft cover.