These are the audio recordings of former enslaved people in America who were mostly interviewed in the 1930s and 1940s, more than 70 years after slavery ended.  The recordings are from the Library of Congress website, Voices Remembering Slavery: Freed People tell their stories. Some of the dialect is a challenge to understand, and some of the recording tools used at the time provide an additional challenge.  That said, the 10 recordings that follow will reveal what they said about slavery, slave holders, whippings and other elements of slave life they saw or experienced, from church to family, kind masters and mean masters.  Most did not know or were unsure of their age. Many were in their 70s or 80swhen interviewed, though some were older, as was the case of Charlie Smith, who was said to be 133 year-olds when he was interviewed in 1975. The New York Times would feature an obituary about Smith when he died four years later in 1979.