Project #1655 W.W. Dixon Winnsboro, S.C. HENRY GLADNEY EX-SLAVE 82 YEARS OLD. Henry Gladney lives with his wife, his son, Murdock, his daughter-in-law, Rose, and seven grandchildre...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Viola B. Muse, Field Worker Jacksonville, Florida December 16, 1936 IRENE COATES Immediately after slavery in the Uni...
Project #-1655 Gyland H. Hamlin Charleston, S.C. FOLKLORE INTERVIEW WITH EX-SLAVE "Good a'ternoon, suh. Yassuh, I'ze gittin' on up in de years. I be eighty-one year ole nex' May. I...
Project #1655. W. W. Dixon, Winnsboro, S. C. LEWIS EVANS EX-SLAVE 96 YEARS Lewis Evans lives on the lands of the estate of the late C.L. Smith, about ten miles southwest of Winnsbo...
MATTIE GILMORE lives in a little cabin on E. Fifth Avenue, in Corsicana, Texas. A smile came to her lips, as she recalled days when she was a slave in Mobile, Alabama. She has no i...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg, Dist. 4 July 26, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage SLAVERY REMINISCENCES "I was raised in the wood across the road about 200 yards from here. I was...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Clay Reaves, (light mulatto, large man) Palestine, Arkansas Age: 80 "I will be eighty years old my next birthday. It will be J...
Interviewer: Mary D. Hudgins Person Interviewed: Joe Golden Age: 86 Home: 722 Gulpha Street, Hot Springs, Ark. "Yes, ma'am to be sure I remembers you. I knew your father and all hi...
Mississippi Federal Writers Slave Autobiographies [MOLLIE WILLIAMS Terry, Mississippi] Mollie Williams, who lives two miles west of Terry, Miss., tells her story: "Iffen I lives' t...
MONROE BRACKINS, born in Monroe Co., Mississippi, in 1853, was the property of George Reedes. He was brought to Medina County, Texas, when two years old. Monroe learned to snare an...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves ROBERT R. GRINSTEAD Age 80 yrs. Oklahoma City, Okla. I was born in Lawrence County, Mississippi, February 17, 1857. My father's name is Elias Gr...
JOE BARNES, 89, was born in Tyler Co., Texas, on Jim Sapp's plantation. He is very feeble, but keeps his great grandchildren in line while their mother works. They live in Beaumont...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Bert Higgins 611 Missouri Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 88 "I was born in slavery times. I was thirteen when peace declared...
=Code No. 390166= =Project No. 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Mrs. Lucile Young & H. Grady Davis= =Place, Florence, S.C.= =Date, May 25, 1937= =Typed by M.C., N.Y.A.= =No Words= =Reduced f...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Mary Scott DeValls Bluff or Biscoe Age: "I said if ever I seed you agin I'd show you dis here scar on my head. See here [a puf...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: AUG 19 1937] ALLEN V. MANNING Age 87 Tulsa, Okla. I always been somewhar in the South, mostly in Texas when I was a young man, and...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Charles Green Dortch 804 Victory Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 81 [HW: Father a Pet] "I was born June 18, 1857. The reason I...
Code No. Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, January 21, 1938 No. Words ---- Reduced from ---- words Rewritten by ---- HEDDIE DAVIS Ex-Slave,...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves 10-19-38 520 Words NANCY ROGERS BEAN Age about 82 Hulbert, Okla. I'm getting old and it's easy to forget most of the happenings of slave days; a...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Beatrice Black, Biscoe. Arkansas Age: 48 Occupation: Store and "eating joint" "I was born below the city pump here in Biscoe....
[HW: Dist. 5 ExSlv. #7 Driskell] HENRY BLAND--EX-SLAVE [MAY -- --] Henry Bland is one of the few living ex-slaves who was born on a plantation near Edenton, Ga., in 1851. His paren...
SARAH ALLEN was born a slave of John and Sally Goodren, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Before the Civil War, her owners came to Texas, locating near a small town then cal...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon,= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =DAN SMITH= =EX-SLAVE 75 YEARS.= Dan Smith lives in one room, rent free, of a three-room frame house, the property of his son-in-law...
N. C. District: No. 11 [320001] Worker: Mrs. W. N. Harriss No. Words: 658 Subject: John Evans Born in Slavery Editor: Mrs. W. N. Harriss Interviewed John Evans on the street and in...
INTERVIEW RACHEL GAINES 1025 10th Ave. N. Nashville, Tennessee "Lawdy! I'se dunno how ole I ez. B'leeves I'se 'round 95 ter 100 y'ars. De fust thing I members ez I wuz tuk in a wag...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320356] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 624 Subject: DORCAS GRIFFETH Person Interviewed: Dorcas Griffeth Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 2...
Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #6 Marion County Anna Pritchett 1200 Kentucky Avenue FOLKLORE NATHAN JONES--EX-SLAVE 409 Blake Street Nathan Jones was born in Gibso...
[HW: Atlanta Dist. 5 Driskell] THE EXPERIENCE OF GEORGE EASON IN SLAVERY TIME [MAY 8 1937] Mr. George Eason was born in Forsyth, Ga., on the plantation of Mr. Jack Ormond. In addit...
Project #-1655 Phoebe Faucette Hampton County Folklore WILLIS GILLISON Luray, S.C. There is no doubt that "Uncle Gillison" is old. He is knock-kneed and walks slowly. His long thin...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Bess Mathis, Hazen, Arkansas Age: 82 "I was born in De Sota County, Mississippi. My parents' owners was Mars Hancock. Mama was...