Your wish is my command Marley. Hope these help.

These are the best sources I have found for the WPA slave narratives. The entire collection is available for Free online, but these collections give a much more focused picture of the horrors of slavery. There are many other collections I haven’t read which are probably also worth reading.

Bullwhip days: the slaves remember.

https://www.amazon.com/Bullwhip-Days-Slaves-Remember-History-ebook/dp/B00THMCCLC/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613205210&sr=1-1

When I was a slave: memoirs from the slave narrative collection

https://www.amazon.com/When-Was-Slave-Narrative-Collection-ebook/dp/B00A735906/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2WD5NCLJK7848&dchild=1&keywords=when+i+was+a+slave&qid=1613205370&s=digital-text&sprefix=When+I+was+a%2Cdigital-text%2C230&sr=1-1

Far more terrible for women: Personal accounts of women in slavery.

https://www.amazon.com/Far-More-Terrible-Women-Personal-ebook/dp/B07L8WMVB5/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3ROSMV0EDSKDW&dchild=1&keywords=far+more+terrible+for+women&qid=1613205513&s=digital-text&sprefix=far+mo%2Cdigital-text%2C251&sr=1-1

Barracoon: The story of the last “Black Cargo”

The last survivor of the Africa slave raids is interviewed by Zora Neal Hurston. The best one from a purely literary point of view.

https://www.amazon.com/Barracoon-Story-Last-Black-Cargo-ebook/dp/B071YRWK84/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613205696&sr=1-1

Other books of interest:

Negroland: A memoir by Margo Jefferson.

A description of the pressures of being forced to “represent” as a member of the Black middle class.

https://www.amazon.com/Negroland-Memoir-Margo-Jefferson-ebook/dp/B00R04MDIQ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=8HBCPJJGNXNL&dchild=1&keywords=negroland&qid=1613205779&s=digital-text&sprefix=Negrol%2Cdigital-text%2C261&sr=1-1

Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror. By the Equal Justice Initiative. I found this one in a free box in Berkeley, but it’s Forty dollars as a paperback on Amazon. You can get it for $2 at the Equal Justice initiative website.

https://shop.eji.org/collections/books-calendars/products/lynchinginamericareporte-commerce

The detailed descriptions of what actually happened at lynchings sound like a really bad XXX-rated horror movie that you would never let your kids see. But it all really happened, and happened after slavery was abolished.

America’s long struggle with slavery: Teaching Company Course

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/americas-long-struggle-against-slavery

This is expensive, unless you can wait to get it on sale, but it is well worth it. Covers a lot of stories of white people behaving badly, but far more stories of heroic Black people who are never mentioned in any of the history books I read as a kid.