MOSE HURSEY believes he is about eighty-two years old. He was born in slavery on a plantation in Louisiana, and was brought to Texas by his parents after they were freed. Mose has...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 June 22, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I will be 85 years old dis coming August. My master said I was 14 years o...
Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, June 21, 1937 MAGGIE BLACK Ex-Slave, 79 years "Honey, I don' know wha' to tell yuh 'bout dem times back dere. Yuh see I wus...
Project #1655 W.W. Dixon Winnsboro, S.C. VIOLET GUNTHARPE EX-SLAVE 82 YEARS OLD. "I was born a slave in de Rocky Mount part of Fairfield County, up close to Great Falls. I hear the...
[HW: Dist. 6 Ex-Slave #2] Henrietta Carlisle JACK ATKINSON--EX-SLAVE Rt. D Griffin, Georgia Interviewed August 21, 1936 [MAY 8 1937] "Onct a man, twice a child," quoted Jack Atkins...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Jane Birch, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 74 "I was three years old when the Yankees come through. I can't recollect a thing about t...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Tanny Hill Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 56? No record of age "'Uncle Solomon' we all called him but he wasn't no kin to us, he was...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Rachel A. Austin Jacksonville, Florida November 30, 1936 LUKE TOWNS, A Centenarian Luke Towns, a centenarian, now res...
Interviewer: Mrs. Annie L. LaCotts Person interviewed: Matilda Miller Humphrey, Ark. Age: 79 The day of the interview Matilda, a nice clean-looking Negro woman, was in bed, sufferi...
FOLKLORE SUBJECTS Name of interviewer: Watt McKinney Subject: Superstitious beliefs Story--Information (If not enough space on this page, add page) This information given by: Tines...
Wayne Holliday, Ex-slave Monroe County Mississippi Federal Writers Slave Autobiographies FEC Mrs. Richard Kolb [WAYNE HOLLIDAY Aberdeen, Mississippi] "I was born an' raised in Aber...
N.C. District: No. 3 Worker: Travis Jordan Subject: Dave Lawson Ex-Slave Story Lived at Blue Wing, N.C. [TR: Date stamp: AUG 8 1937] DAVE LAWSON EX-SLAVE MY FATHER WHO KNEW THE PRI...
EDGAR BENDY, 90 odd years, was the slave of Henry Bendy, of Woodville, Texas, has to make an effort to remember and is forced to seek aid from his wife, Minerva, at certain points...
PLANTATION LIFE GEORGIA BAKER, Age 87 369 Meigs Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Mrs. Sadie B. Hornsby [HW: (White)] Athens Edited by: Mrs. Sarah H. Hall Athens and John N. Booth...
District Two EX-SLAVE INTERVIEW AUNT HARRIET MILLER Toccoa, Georgia (Stephens County) Written By: Mrs. Annie Lee Newton Research Worker Federal Writers' Project Athens, Georgia Edi...
N.C. District: No. 3 Writer: Daisy Whaley No. Words: 250 Subject: Abner Jordan, Ex-slave Of Durham County. Interviewed: Abner Jordan Durham County Home. Abner Jordan Ex-slave, 95 y...
[HW: Dist. 7 Ex-slave #108] District 7 Adella S. Dixon PHIL TOWNS OLD SLAVE STORY [Date Stamp: -- 8 1937] [TR: This interview contained many handwritten edits; where text was trans...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves SALLIE CARDER Age 83 yrs. Burwin, Okla. I was born in Jackson, Tennessee, and I'm going on 83 years. My mother was Harriett Neel and father Jeff...
=Project 1885 -1-= =District #4= =Spartanburg, S.C.= =June 1, 1937= =Edited by:= =E. Fronde Kennedy= =FOLK-LORE: EX-SLAVES= While looking for an ex-slave in a certain part of Spart...
PLANTATION LIFE as viewed by ex-slave SUSAN McINTOSH, Age 87 1203 W. Hancook Avenue Athens, Georgia Written by: Sadie B. Hornsby Federal Writers' Project Athens, Ga. Edited by: Sar...
INTERVIEW Sylvia Watkins 411 14th Avenue N. Nashville, Tennessee. I'se said ter be 91 y'ars ole. I wuz young w'en de War wuz goin' on. I wuz bawn in Bedford County. Mah mammy wuz n...
WILLIAM DAVIS was born near Kingston, Tennessee, on the first of April, 1845. His family were the only slaves owned by Jonathan Draper, Baptist minister. In 1869 William joined the...
Interviewer: Pernella M. Anderson Person interviewed: Mary Island 626 Nelson Street, El Dorado, Arkansas Age: 80 "I was born in Union Parish, Louisiana in the year of 1857, so the...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320162] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 927 Subject: Plantation Times Person Interviewed: Alice Baugh Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 1 1937...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Anna King 704 W. Fifth (rear), Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 82 "I used to 'member lots but you know, my remembrance got short. "I...
Interviewer: Bernice Bowden. Person interviewed: Anna King (c) Home: 704 West Fifth, Pine Bluff, Ark. Age: 80 "Yes honey, I was here in slavery times. I'se gittin' old too, honey....
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Annie Johnson 804 Izard Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and I was four years old...
PLANTATION LIFE as related by Ex-Slave: [TR: Date Stamped May 13 1938] EASTER HUFF 125 Rockspring St., Athens, Georgia. Written by: Sadie B. Hornsby Athens, Georgia Edited by: Sara...
INTERVIEW LAURA RAMSEY PARKER 715 Gay St. Nashville, Tennessee "I'se 87 y'ars ole. Wuz bawn in slavery. Wuz freed w'en de slavery stopped. Mack Ramsey wuz mah marster en he wuz sho...
JEFFERSON CO. (Byers York) Susan Dale Sanders: The following is a story of Mrs. Susan Dale Sanders, #1 Dupree Alley, between Breckinridge and Lampton Sts., Louisville, an old Negro...