The Federal Writers' Project collected several volumes of oral histories in Arkansas as part of this literary genre, and the University of South Florida Libraries curates a distinct Florida archive of first-person accounts by formerly enslaved people. Which literary form is being described?

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Slave narrative. The slave narrative is a distinct literary genre of first-person accounts by formerly enslaved people, with roots in the 18th century and a major 1930s revival through the Federal Writers' Project. Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs and Olaudah Equiano remain among its best-known authors.