I have given the actual experiences of my own life. I thought in putting it in this form it might be of some inspiration to struggling men and women. In this great, free land of ours, every person, no matter how humble or how great seems the handicap, by industry and saving, can reach a position of independence and be of service to mankind. Slave Narrative Collection In 1936, Bruner was interviewed for the Works Progress Administration Slave Narrative Collection. The interview did not reveal the same level of detail as his book. He left out personal information and did not delve into the more complex natures of individuals and the communities in which he lived. Blassingame theorizes that some of this may be due to memory loss, transcription errors, or concealment of some of the facts. The WPA interview resulted in a couple of typed pages; Bruner's book was 54 pages in length. Death Peter Bruner died on April 6, 1938, and is one of the African-American Civil War Veterans buried in Woodside Cemetery, Oxford, Ohio. Honors Exhibit at The Blue Grass Heritage Museum in the Agriculture Room, Winchester, Kentucky. Listed as a Notable Kentucky African American by the University of Kentucky Libraries. Peter Bruner's autobiography included in the "entries in print edition" of the African American National Biography published in January 2008 as a joint project of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University and Oxford University Press. "Peter Bruner: An Informal Discussion of His Life and Times." Presented by Blake Vaughan at McGuffey Museum in Oxford, Ohio, on February 24, 2009. Notes References Further reading 19th-century American slaves 1845 births 1938 deaths People who wrote slave narratives Union Army soldiers People from Clark County, Kentucky Burials in Ohio 20th-century African-American people