Stories from Ex-Slaves 5th District Vanderburgh County Lauana Creel 1415 S. Barker Avenue, Evansville, Indiana ESCAPE FROM BONDAGE OF ADAH ISABELLE SUGGS Among the interesting stor...
Emery Turner District #5 Lawrence County Bedford, Indiana REMINISCENCES OF TWO EX-SLAVES THOMAS ASH, Mitchell, Ind. MRS. MARY CRANE, Warren St., Mitchell, Ind. [Thomas Ash] I have...
JULIA FRANCIS DANIELS, born in 1848, in Georgia, a slave of the Denman family, who moved to Texas before the Civil War. Julia's memory fails her when she tries to recall names and...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 1519 Subject: SAM T. STEWART, EX-SLAVE Person Interviewed: Sam T. Stewart Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date stamp: JUN 1 19...
Interviewer: Mary D. Hudgins Person Interviewed: Mrs. Mary Jane (Mattie) Mooreman Home: with son Age: 90 "Yes, ma'am. I've been in Hot Springs, been in Hot Springs 57 years. That's...
Project #-1655 Phoebe Faucette Hampton County REBECCA JANE GRANT "Yes, Ma'am," Aunt Beckie said, "I remembers you, you Miss Mamie Willingham' granddaughter. She was sure a good wom...
Project #-1655 Phoebe Faucette Hampton County Folklore [HW: Grant, Rebecca Jane] NINETY TWO YEAR OLD NEGRO TELLS OF EARLY LIFE AS SLAVE In Hampton County at Lena, S.C., there lives...
JULIA BROWN (Aunt Sally) 710 Griffin Place, N.W. Atlanta, Ga. July 25, 1936[TR:?] by Geneva Tonsill [TR: One page of this interview was repeated in typescript; where there was a di...
450013 Interview of Mrs. Minnie Fulkes 459 E. Byrne Street--Petersburg, Virginia By--Susie [SP: Susue] Byrd March 5, 1937 I was born the twenty-fifth of December and I am 77 years...
I was born the twenty-fifth of December and I am 77 years old. My mother was a slave and she belonged to Dick Belcher in Chesterfield County. Old Dick sold us again to Gelaspe Grav...
Anna Baker, Ex-slave, Monroe County FEC Mrs. Richard Kolb Rewrite, Pauline Loveless Edited, Clara E. Stokes ANNA BAKER Aberdeen, Mississippi Anna Baker, 80-year old ex-slave, is ta...
S-260-264-N Project #1655 Augustus Ladson Charleston, S.C. Page I No. Words: 1497 EX-SLAVE BORN DECEMBER 25, 1843 COWARD MASTER RAN OUT CIVIL WAR--LEAVING HIM "I was bo'n in Charle...
Mississippi Federal Writers Slave Autobiographies Jim Allen, Clay Co. FEC Mrs. Ed Joiner [JIM ALLEN West Point, Mississippi] Jim Allen, West Point, age 87, lives in a shack furnish...
SARAH ASHLEY, 93, was born in Mississippi. She recalls her experiences when sold on the block in New Orleans, and on a cotton plantation in Texas. She now lives at Goodrich, Texas....
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: S.O. Mullins, Clarendon, Arkansas Janitor for Masonic Hall He wears a Masonic ring Age: 80 "My master was B.F. Wallace--Benjam...
VOODOO MAN UNCLE MARION JOHNSON, EX-SLAVE. [Date Stamp: OCT 26 1936] "Yes young missey ah'll sho tell yo-all whut yo wants ter know. Yes'm ole Uncle Marion sho kin. Mah price is fo...
Person Interviewed: ANNIE HUFF, EX-SLAVE, of near Macon, Georgia Jul 28 1937 A large windmill beside the highway, on the Houston Road near Seven Bridges, draws the attention of a t...
Mrs. Georgina Giwbs, an ex-slave, resides at 707 Lindsey Avenue, Portsmouth, Virginia. The old lady marveled at the great change that has been made in the clothings, habits and liv...
W11805 [TR: moved from bottom of page] Writer--Jayne, Lucille B. Capahosic, Virginia. Gloucester Co. Typist--Nicholas [HW: C. Moore] [HW: Tales] [HW: Virginia/1938-9] FOLKLORE Mate...
N. C. District: No. 3 [320193] Field Worker: Esther S. Pinnix Word Total: 3,199 Editor: P. G. Cross Subject: "Negro Folklore of the Piedmont". Consultants: Mrs. P. G. Cross, Miss K...
Ruth Thompson, Interviewing Graff, Editing Ex-Slave Interviews Hamilton Co., District 12 Cincinnati RICHARD TOLER 515 Poplar St., Cincinnati, O. "Ah never fit in de wah; no suh, ah...
Interviewer: Miss Sallie C. Miller Person interviewed: Ann May, Clarksville, Arkansas Age: 82 "I was born at Cabin Creek (Lamar now, but I still call it Cabin Creek. I can't call i...
Dora Franks, Ex-Slave, Monroe County FEC Mrs. Richard Kolb Rewrite, Pauline Loveless Edited, Clara E. Stokes DORA FRANKS Aberdeen, Mississippi Dora Franks, ex-slave, lives at Aberd...
#728 Interviewer: Watt McKinney Person interviewed: James Gill R.F.D. Marvell, Arkansas Age: 86 Occupation: Farmer "Uncle Jim" Gill, an ex-slave eighty-six years of age, owns a nic...
STEARLIN ARNWINE, 94, was born a slave to Albertus Arnwine, near Jacksonville, Texas, who died when Stearlin was seven or eight. He was bought by John Moseley, of Rusk, Texas, who...
ALBERT HILL, 81, was born a slave of Carter Hill, who owned a plantation and about 50 slaves, in Walton Co., Georgia. Albert remained on the Hill place until he was 21, when he wen...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: AUG 16 1937] JOHN BROWN Age (about) 87 yrs. West Tulsa, Okla. Most of the folks have themselves a regular birthday but this old col...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320243] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 585 Subject: ADELINE CRUMP Story Teller: Adeline Crump Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt ADELINE CRUMP 526 Cannon Street...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: NOV 5 1937] BEN LAWSON Age 84 yrs. Oklahoma City, Okla. I was born in Danville, Illinois. De best I can get at my age I is 84 years...
450009 Interview of Mrs. Fannie Berry, Ex-slave 861 E. Bank Street--Petersburg, Virginia By Susie Byrd, Petersburg, Virginia Date--February 26, 1937 NAT TURNER Back 'fore the sixti...