Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: J.F. Boone 1502 Izard, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 66 [HW: A Union Veteran] "My father's name was Arthur Boone and my mother's name...
Interviewer: Watt McKinney Person interviewed: Joe Clinton, Route 2, Marvell, Arkansas Age: 86 "Uncle Joe" Clinton, on ex-Mississippi slave, lives on a small farm that he owns a fe...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Josephine Ann Barnett, R.F.D., De Valls Bluff, Arkansas Age: 75 or 80 "I do not knows my exact age. I judge I somewhere betwee...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lucy Key, Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 70 plus "I was born in Marshall County, Mississippi. I seen Yankees go by in droves. I w...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Rev. Frank T. Boone 1410 W. Seventeenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 80 [HW: Free Colonies] "I was born in Nansemond County,...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves HAL HUTSON Age 90 yrs. Oklahoma City, Okla. I was born at Galveston, Tennessee, October 12, 1847. There were 11 children: 7 brothers; Andrew, Ge...
LOUIS FOWLER, 84, was born a slave to Robert Beaver, in Macon Co., Georgia. Fowler did not take his father's name, but that of his stepfather, J. Fowler. After he was freed, Louis...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Arey Lamar 612 E. 14th Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 [Date Stamp: MAY 31 1938] "Yes'm, I was born in slavery days but I...
BENJAMIN JOHNSON EX-SLAVE Following is Benjamin Johnson's own account of some of his experiences as a slave and of conditions on his plantation. "On our plantation de white folks b...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. HENRY DAVIS EX-SLAVE 80 YEARS OLD. Henry Davis is an old Negro, a bright mulatto, who lives in a two-room frame house on the farm of Mr....
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Ellis Jefson (M. E. Preacher), Hazen, Ark. Age: 77 "My father was a full blood African. His parents come from there and he cou...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320048] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 922 Subject: WILLIAM GEORGE HINTON Person Interviewed: William George Hinton Editor: G. L. Andrews [TR: HW Date: "...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Absolom Jenkins, R.F.D., Helena, Arkansas Age: 80 [Date Stamp: MAY 31 1938] "I was born a few years before the break out of th...
JAMES LUCAS Natchez, Mississippi James Lucas, ex-slave of Jefferson Davis, lives at Natchez, Adams County. Uncle Jim is small, wrinkled, and slightly stooped. His woolly hair is wh...
Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: William Little, Atkins, Arkansas Age: 83 "I was born on the plantation of Dr. Andrew Scott, but my old ma'ster was Col. Ben T. E...
EX-SLAVE INTERVIEW BILL HEARD 475 Reese Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Miss Grace McCune Athens -- Edited by: Mrs. Sarah H. Hall Athens -- and John N. Booth District Supervisor...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Isaac Crawford Brinkley, Ark. Age: 75 "I was born the first year of the Civil War. I was born and raised and married in Holmes...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. ED BARBER EX-SLAVE 77 YEARS OLD. Ed Barber lives in a small one-room house in the midst of a cotton field on the plantation of Mr. A. M....
Elizabeth Watson BOB MOBLEY, Ex-Slave, Aged about 90 Pulaski County, Georgia (1937) [Date Stamp: JUL 20 1937] When recently interviewed, this aged colored man--the soul of humblene...
Elizabeth Watson M.G. 7/15/37 MELVIN SMITH, Ex-Slave, 96 Years [Date Stamp: JUL 28 1937] "Yes'm, I show does 'member all 'about my white folks an' th' war 'cause I was twenty-four...
Project 1885-1 Folklore Spartanburg, Dist. 4 Dec. 23, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage EX-SLAVE STORIES EMANUEL ELMORE. "I was born on June 20th and I remember when the war broke out,...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 June 3, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES OF EX-SLAVES Upon learning where an ex-slave lived, the writer walked up to a house on Pic...
Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: Caroline Bonds Russellville, Arkansas Age: 70 "What's all dis info'mation you askin' about goin' to be for? Will it help us alon...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Dan Newborn 1000 Louisiana, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born in 1860. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee. I suppose it was in...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. DINAH CUNNINGHAM EX-SLAVE 84 YEARS OLD. Dinah Cunningham lives about seven miles west of Ridgeway, S. C., on the Hood place about a hundr...
Project 1886 -1- District #4 Spartanburg, S.C. From Field Notes Folk-Lore May 26, 1937 FOLKLORE: EX-SLAVES: Journeying on Cudd Street this morning and stopping at the "Old Ladies'...
[HW: Dist. 5 Ex. Slave #13] AN INTERVIEW ON SLAVERY OBTAINED FROM MRS. SARAH BYRD--EX-SLAVE Mrs. Sarah Byrd claims to be 95 years of age but the first impression one receives when...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Talitha Lewis 300 E. 21st Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 86 [Date Stamp: MAY 31 1938] "I should say I was born in slavery ti...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Martin Richardson, Field Worker Eatonville, Florida ARNOLD GRAGSTON (Verbatim Interview with Arnold Gragston, 97-year...
JOHN HILL 1525 Broad Street Athens, Georgia PLANTATION LIFE, AS VIEWED BY AN EX-SLAVE Written By: Grace McCune Research Worker Federal Writers' Project Athens, Georgia Edited By: L...