Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-slaves [Date stamp: AUG 18 1937] HARRIET ROBINSON Age 95 yrs. 500 Block N. Fonshill Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. I was born September 1, 1842, in Bastrop,...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320257] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 429 Subject: JERRY DAVIS Story Teller: Jerry Davis Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 26 1937"] JERRY D...
NETTIE HENRY Meridian, Mississippi Nettie Henry, ex-slave, 19th Street, Meridian, Lauderdale County, is 82 years old. She is five feet tall and weighs one hundred pounds. "De Chil'...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 1213 Subject: HANNAH PLUMMER Person Interviewed: Hannah Plummer Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt HANNAH PLUMMER 412 Smith Street "...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon.= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =AL ROSBORO= =EX-SLAVE 90 YEARS OLD.= Al Rosboro, with his second wife, Julia, a daughter, and six small grandchildren, lives in a t...
Maryland Sept. 28, 1937 Stansbury DENNIS SIMMS, Ex-slave. Reference: Personal interview with Dennis Simms, ex-slave, September 19, 1937, at his home, 629 Mosher St., Baltimore. Bor...
INTERVIEW NARCISSUS YOUNG Rear 532 1st Street No. Nashville, Tennessee "I'se 96 y'ars ole. Bawn in slavery en mah marster wuz Isham Lamb en mah missis wuz Martha Lamb. Mah mammy d'...
[HW: Dist. 6: Ex-Slave #72] Henrietta Carlisle Alberta Minor Re-search Workers MOLLIE MALONE--EX-SLAVE Route B, Griffin, Georgia Interviewed September 16, 1936 [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1...
JAN 29 1938 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Molly Hudgens DeValls Bluff, Arkansas Age: Born in 1868 "I was born in Clarendon in 1868. My mother was sold to Ju...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves ANNIE YOUNG Age 86 Oklahoma City, Okla. I was born in 1851, makes me 86 years old. I was born in Middle Tennessee, Summers County. My mother was...
BOYD CO. (Carl F. Hall) The Commonwealth of Kentucky, having for a northern boundary the Ohio River--the dividing line between the northern free states and the southern slave state...
District: No. 2 [320151] No. Words: 733 Worker: Mary A. Hicks Subject: EX-SLAVE STORY Story Teller: Charlie Barbour Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 7 1937"] [HW: A...
PROJECT #1655 W.W. Dixon, Winnsboro, S.C. ELI HARRISON EX-SLAVE 87 YEARS. Eli Harrison lives on a small ten-acre tract of land near Dutchman Creek, in Fairfield County, approximate...
[HW: Georgia] PLANTATION LIFE AS VIEWED BY AN EX-SLAVE JOHN F. VAN HOOK, Age 76 Newton Bridge Road Athens, Georgia Written by: Mrs. Sadie B. Hornsby Area 6 Athens Edited by: Mrs. S...
TOM HOLLAND was born in Walker County, Texas, and thinks he is about 97 years old. His master, Frank Holland, traded Tom to William Green just before the Civil War. After Tom was f...
Project 1885-1 Spartanburg Dist. 4 Sept. 22, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES [~HW: Duk~] "Vinie Wilkins is my daughter's name dat live wid me. My son owns dis...
ALEC BOSTWICK Ex-Slave--Age 76 [TR: Preceding page that would usually contain information regarding the interview was marked 'Placeholder'.] All of Uncle Alec Bostwick's people are...
FOLKLORE INTERVIEW ALICE BRADLEY Hull Street near Corner of Hoyt Street Athens, Georgia KIZZIE COLQUITT 243 Macon Avenue Athens, Georgia Written by: Miss Grace McCune Athens, Georg...
Submitted by: William Webb Tuttle District No. 2 Muncie, Indiana NEGRO SLAVES IN DELAWARE COUNTY MRS. BETTY GUWN MRS. HATTIE CASH, DAUGHTER, residing at 1101 East Second Street Mun...
SUBJECT: [HW: Robert Henry]--EX-SLAVE DISTRICT: W.P.A. NO. 1 RESEARCH WORKER: JOSEPH E. JAFFEE EDITOR: JOHN N. BOOTH SUPERVISOR: JOSEPH E. JAFFFEE (ASST.) PLANTATION LIFE, AS VIEWE...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Bessie Lawsom, Helena, Arkansas Age: 76 [Date Stamp: MAY 31 1938] "I was born in Georgia. My mama was brought from Virginia to...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Jim Ricks 517 E. 22nd Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 79 "I was born in slavery times. I 'member runnin' from the Yankees whe...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mack Brantley, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 80 "I was born in Dallas County close to Selma, Alabama. My mother's owners was Miss Ma...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 631 Subject: NELLIE SMITH Person Interviewed: Nellie Smith Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt NELLIE SMITH Main St. Dunn, North Caro...
WPA in Ohio Federal Writers' Project Written by Bishop & Isleman Edited by Albert I. Dugen [TR: also reported as Dugan] Ex-Slaves Jefferson County, District #2 PERRY SID JEMISON [T...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Eliza Frazier 2003 Saracen Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 88? "I don't know when I was born or 'zackly how old I is, but I w...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Tayler Person interviewed: Henry Blake Rear of 1300 Scott Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 80, or more Occupation: Farming and junk, when able [HW: Drove a...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: James Reeves 2419 W. Twentieth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 68 Occupation: Preacher "I was born in 1870 down in Ouachita Cou...
WPA in Ohio Federal Writers' Project Bishop & Isleman Reporter: Bishop (Revision) July 8, 1937 Topic: Ex-Slaves Jefferson County, District #5 JOHN WILLIAMS MATHEUS Ex-Slave, 77 yea...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves MARY GRAYSON Age 83 yrs. Tulsa, Oklahoma I am what we colored people call a "native." That means that I didn't come into the Indian country from...