Historians have devoted tireless attention to studying the institution of slavery in the United States. In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration interviewed over 2,000 formerly enslaved people for a project designed to collect testimony from former slaves before they all passed away. Since the 2000s, historians have begun to utilize the information within the collection to study many different aspects of slavery in the U.S. However, no scholar has utilized the WPA narratives in a study specifically focused on slavery in North Carolina. The main argument throughout the thesis is that the information within the WPA collection is important and valid to the study of United States slavery. To convey the lives of enslaved people using the WPA narratives, the thesis starts with an introduction that outlines the topic and its arguments and then covers the relevant historiography of the history of enslaved children and the WPA narratives. This analysis of the memories of WPA interviewees illustrates that even though the time spent in slavery by the respondents was almost eighty years earlier, these formerly enslaved men and women’s memories concerning slavery were primarily clear, concise, and, in most cases, extremely accurate. Examples from the entire collection portray the wide range of topics that interviewees from the North Carolina collection recalled to their interviewees.