Slave Narratives: Mississippi Narratives - Hardcoverby Work Projects Administration (Author) Slave Narratives: Mississippi Narratives is a collection of first hand accounts of the experiences of enslaved African Americans in Mississippi during the 19th century. The book was compiled by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) in the 1930s as part of a larger initiative to document the history of slavery in the United States. The narratives were collected through interviews with former slaves or their