In 1712, a split within a southern colony led to the creation of

the following are seventeen of the approximately 2,300 american slave narratives collected by the federal writers project. students should be encouraged to consider the process through which these narratives were created, and the accompanying  lesson plans  have been formulated to raise issues of authorship and credibility.

these narratives are not the direct transciptions of the interviews, and the forms they take differ from narrative to narrative. according to rawick, scott bond's narrative appears to have been dictated rather than a simple response to questions. charles williams' autobiography is his own work, originally written in pencil in a series of notebooks. both the bond and williams narratives are of much greater length than the rest.