Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Campbell Armstrong 802 Schiller Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 86 [HW: Boys liked corn shuckings] "I couldn't tell you when I...
MRS. EMMALINE HEARD [TR: This interview, which was attached to the interview with Mrs. Celestia Avery, is also included in the second volume of the Georgia Narratives.] On December...
FOLKLORE Interviews obtained from: MRS. EMMALINE HEARD, 239 Cain St. NE MRS. ROSA MILLEGAN, 231 Chestnut Ave. NE MR. JASPER MILLEGAN, 231 Chestnut Ave. NE Atlanta, Ga. [Date Stamp:...
FLORIDA FOLKLORE SLAVE CUSTOMS AND ANECDOTES MARY MINUS BIDDIE Mary Minus Biddie, age one hundred five was born in Pensacola, Florida, 1833, and raised in Columbia County. She is m...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 1,017 Subject: DILLY YELLADAY [TR: or YELLADY?] Story teller: Dilly Yelladay Editor: Geo. L. Andrews [TR: Date stamp: JUL 24...
Story and Photo by Frank M. Smith Ex-Slaves Mahoning County, District #5 Youngstown, Ohio The Story of MRS. MELISSA (LOWE) BARDEN, Youngstown, Ohio. Mrs. Melissa (Lowe) Barden of 1...
DEC -- 1937 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Andrew Gregory Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 74 "I was born in Carroll County, Tennessee. My mother was owned by Houston...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 723 Subject: CATHARINE WILLIAMS Person Interviewed: Catherine Williams Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt CATHARINE WILLIAMS 2214 Ba...
[HW: Dist 6 Ex Slave #65] J.R. Jones FRANCES KIMBROUGH, EX-SLAVE Place of birth: On Kimbrough plantation, Harries County, near Cataula, Georgia Date of birth: About 1854 Present re...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Martin Richardson, Field Worker Greenwood, Florida March 18, 1937 BILL AUSTIN Bill Austin--he says his name is NOT Wi...
[HW: Dist. #2 Ex. Slave #99] SLAVERY by RUBY LORRAINE RADFORD COMPILATION MADE FROM INTERVIEWS WITH 30 SLAVES AND INFORMATION FROM SLAVERY LAWS AND OLD NEWSPAPER FILES [Date Stamp:...
Project #-1655 Phoebe Faucette Hampton County Approx. 390 words FOLKLORE ADELINE GREY 82 YEAR OLD Ex-Slave Adeline Grey seemed in good health as she sat before her granddaughter's...
Charlie Moses, Ex-slave, Lincoln County FEC Esther de Sola Rewrite, Pauline Loveless Edited, Clara E. Stokes CHARLIE MOSES Brookhaven, Mississippi Charlie Moses, 84 year old ex-sla...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg, Dist. 4 Sept. 7, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES OF EX-SLAVES "Cap, I was born on de Bonner place, five miles from Gaffney. Jest about de...
FOLKLORE (Negro) Minnie B. Ross [MRS. CAMILLA JACKSON] On November 24, 1936 Mrs. Camilla Jackson was interviewed concerning superstitions, signs, etc. Mrs. Jackson, an ex-slave, is...
"MEMORIES OF HER CHILDHOOD", BY AN EX-SLAVE, CAMILLA JACKSON Submitted by-- Minnie B. Ross (Colored) Mrs. Camilla Jackson doesn't know how old she is, but is so very old that she a...
450011 Interview of Mr. Charles Grandy, Ex-slave By--David Hoggard Date--February 26, 1937 [HW: Norfolk, Va.] History of Ex-slave and Civil War Veteran Charles Grandy was born Febr...
MINERVA BENDY, 83, was born a slave to Lazarus Goolsby, Henry Co. Alabama, who brought her to Texas when she was five. They settled near Woodville, where Minerva still lives. "My e...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: George Key, Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 70 plus "I was born in Fayette County, Tennessee. My mother was Henrietta Hair. She wa...
Maryland Sept. 23, 1937 Rogers MARY MORIAH ANNE SUSANNA JAMES, Ex-slave. Reference: Personal interview with Mary James, ex-slave, Sept. 23, 1937, at her home, 618 Haw St., Baltimor...
FIRST COPY OF ARTICLE ENTITLED: "AN INTERVIEW WITH HEARD GRIFFIN," EX-SLAVE. by Minnie B. Ross Typed by A. M. Whitley 1-29-37 HEARD GRIFFIN--EX-SLAVE In order to catch Mr. Heard Gr...
[HW: Atlanta Dist. 5 Ex-Slave #103] 2-4-37 Whitley SEC. Ross [HW: AMANDA STYLES] On November 18, 1936 Amanda Styles ex-slave, was interviewed at her residence 268 Baker Street N.E....
Project #1655 W.W. Dixon Winnsboro, S.C. ELIZA HASTY EX-SLAVE 85 YEARS OLD. Eliza Hasty lives with her son-in-law and her daughter, Philip Moore and Daisy Moore, in an old time ant...
CALDWELL CO. (Mary E. O'Malley) [HW: Ky 6] Coal Mine Slaves: In 1836 large numbers of slaves were brought into Caldwell and worked by the owners of the ore mines, which necessitate...
Interviewer: Miss Sallie C. Miller Person interviewed: Mary Myhand, Clarksville, Arkansas Age: 85 "My mammie died when I was a little girl She had three children and our white folk...
THOMAS COLE was born in Jackson Co., Alabama, on the 8th of August, 1845, a slave of Robert Cole. He ran away in 1861 to join the Union Army. He fought at Chickamauga, under Gen. R...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Pearl Randolph, Field Worker Jacksonville, Florida November 35, 1936 ACIE THOMAS Mr. Thomas was at home today. There...
Submitted by: Robert C. Irvin District No. 2 Noblesville, Ind. SLAVES IN MADISON COUNTY CARL BOONE Anderson, Indiana This is a story of slavery, told by Carl Boone about his father...
Ohio Guide, Special Ex-Slave Stories August 16, 1937 DAVID A. HALL "I was born at Goldsboro, N.C., July 25, 1847. I never knew who owned my father, but my mother's master's name wa...
SPENCE JOHNSON was born free, a member of the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory, in the 1850's. He does not know his exact age. He and his mother were stolen and sold at auct...