Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Caroline Matthews 812 Spruce Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 79 "Yes'm, I was born in slavery times in Mississippi. Now, the...
ELI COLEMAN, 91, was born a slave of George Brady, in Kentucky. Eli's memory is poor and his story is somewhat sketchy. He now lives in Madisonville, Texas. "I has a old bill of sa...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: John Peterson, 1810 Eureka Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 80 "I was small but I can remember some 'bout slavery days. I was...
JOSIE BROWN was born about 1859, in Victoria, Texas. She belonged to George Heard. Her mother was born free, a member of the Choctaw Nation, but she was stolen and sold as a slave....
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Sam Keaton, Brinkley, Ark. Age: 78 "I was born close to Golden Hill down in Arkansas County. My parents names was Louana and D...
Project #-1655 Phoebe Faucette Hampton County Folklore GEORGE ANN BUTLER Ex-Slave 75 Years West of the paved highway at Garnett one may reach, after several miles, the old Augusta...
El Dorado District FOLKLORE SUBJECTS Name of Interviewer: Pernella Anderson (Colored) Subject: NEGRO FOLKLORE--Uncle James Tubbs Story:--Information "Well ah wuz born second year a...
Mercer County. Ex-Slave Stories. (Hazel Cinnamon) Interview with Will Oats--Ex-Slave: Will Oats, 84 years of age, was born in Wayne County, up Spring Valley in 1854. He was the son...
[HW: Dist 6 Ex-Slave #64] Mary A. Crawford Re-Search Worker CHARLIE KING--EX-SLAVE Interviewed 435 E. Taylor Street, Griffin, Georgia September 16, 1936 Charlie was born in Sandtow...
[HW: DIST. 6 Ex-slave #77] Alberta Minor Re-search Worker EMILY MAYS East Solomon Street, Griffin, Georgia Interviewed [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937] Emily was born in 1861 on the Billy...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Harriett Hill Forrest City, Ark. (Visiting at Brinkley, Ark.) Age: 84 "I was born in Lithonia, Georgia, at the foot of Little...
N. C. District: No. 3 [320016] Worker: Travis Jordan Subject: Hecter Hamilton Ex-slave 90 Years. [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 30 1937"] HECTER HAMILTON EX-SLAVE 90 YEARS Dey wuz two Genera...
#786 Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Matilda Hatchett 424 W. Twenty-Fifth Street, North Little Rock, Arkansas Age: Between 98 and 100 "I was born right here in Ar...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Mary Shaw 1118 Palm Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 77 Occupation: Laundry work "I was born in Bolivar County, Mississippi. M...
Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, June 9, 1937 AUNT SILVA DURANT Ex-Slave "I don' know 'xactly when I wuz born but I hear my white folks say...
Barragan-Harris [TR: Miss Maude Barragan (interviewer), Mrs. Leila Harris (editor)] NANCY BOUDRY, THOMSON, GEORGIA "If I ain't a hunnard," said Nancy, nodding her white-turbaned he...
ESTILL CO. (Evelyn McLemore) Story of Peter Bruner, a former slave: Peter Bruner, was born in Winchester, Kentucky, Clark Co., in 1845. His master was John Bell Bruner, who at that...
Mississippi Federal Writers Slave Autobiographies [JAMES CORNELIUS Magnolia, Mississippi] James Cornelius lives in Magnolia in the northwestern part of the town, in the Negro settl...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Louis Lucas 1320 Pulaski Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 83 Masters, Birth, Parents, Grandparents "I was born in 1855 down on B...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: George Brown Route 4; Box 159, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 84 "Yes'm, I was born in slavery times. I was born in 1854. How old do...
INTERVIEW MILLIE SIMPKINS "BLACK MAMIE" 1004 10th Avenue, No. Nashville, Tennessee I claims I's 109 ye'ars ole en wuz bawn neah Winchester, Tennessee. Mah marster wuz Boyd Sims en...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor. Person Interviewed: Amsy O. Alexander 2422 Center Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 74 [HW: Helps Build Railroad] "I was born in the country several...
Mary A. Crawford Re-search Worker Henderson Harris--Ex-Slave Henderson Harris was born August 19, 1858, in Talbot County. His parents were Frederick and Adeline Harris of Jones Cou...
J.R. Jones REV. W.B. ALLEN, EX-SLAVE 425-Second Ave Columbus, Georgia (June 29, 1937) [JUL 28 1937] [TR: Original index refers to "Allen, Rev. W.B. (Uncle Wash)"; however, this inf...
AUSTIN GRANT came to Texas from Mississippi with his grandfather, father, mother and brother. George Harper owned the family. He raised cotton on Peach Creek, near Gonzales. Austin...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: "Cat" Ross Brassfield, Ark. Age: Born 1862 "I was born in Releford County on old Major Ross place. I was born durin' a battle...
[HW: Dist. 6 Ex. Slv. #11] GEORGE BROOKS, EX-SLAVE Date of birth: Year unknown (See below) Place of birth: In Muscogee County, near Columbus, Georgia Present Residence: 502 East 8t...
Annie Morgan: Story of Annie Morgan: (age 65, 207 W. 2nd St., Hopkinsville, Ky.) Annie was born of slave parents. Her mother and father were slaves of the Payne family. Ques: Annie...
Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: "Aunt Minerva" Lofton Russellville, Arkansas Age: 69 "Come in! Yes, my name's Minerva Lofton--at least it was yistiddy. Now, wha...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: James Graham 408 Maple Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 75 [HW: ["Free Negroes"]] "I was born in South Carolina, Lancaster Count...