Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Cresa Mack 1417 Short Indiana St., Pine Bluff, Ark. Age: 85 "I can tell you something about slavery days. I was born at South B...
Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ella Pittman 2409 West Eleventh Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 84 "Yes ma'm, I was born in slavery days. I tell you I never had n...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ella Pittman 2417 W. Eleventh Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 84 [TR: Appears to be same as last informant despite different...
HENRY H. BUTTLER, 87, venerable graduate of Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, and ex-school teacher, was born a slave to Mr. George Sullivan on his 300 acre plantation in Farquier...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Martha Ruffin 1310 Cross Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 80 "I was born in North Carolina, and I was seven years old when the S...
Maryland Sept. 22, 1937 Rogers MENELLIS GASSAWAY, Ex-slave. Reference: Personal interview with Menellis Gassaway, ex-slave, on Sept. 22, 1937, at M.E. Home, Carrollton Ave., Baltim...
RICHARD CARRUTHERS, 100 year old ex-slave, was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Billy Coats bought him and his mother and brought them to Bastrop Co., Texas. He came to Houston 20 y...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Carry Allen Patton Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 71 "I was born in Shelby County, Tennessee. My parents was Tillie Watts and Pie...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320185] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 459 Subject: Ex-Slave Story Person Interviewed: Clay Bobbit Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 17 1937"...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves HANNAH McFARLAND Age 85 yrs. Oklahoma City, Okla. I was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, February 29, 1853. My father was name James Gainey a...
EX-SLAVE INTERVIEW: MARGARET GREEN 1430 Jones Street Augusta, Georgia. (Richmond County) BY: Mrs. Margaret Johnson Editor Federal Writers' Project, Augusta, Georgia. EX-SLAVE INTER...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320261] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 908 Subject: A Slave Story Story Teller: Charity Austin Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 26 1937"]...
[HW: Dist. 1 Ex Slave #68] EX-SLAVE INTERVIEW: LUCY McCULLOUGH, Age 79 BY: SARAH H. HALL ATHENS, GA. [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937] [TR: This first half of this interview was edited by h...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: NOV 5 1937] IDA HENRY Age 83 Oklahoma City, Okla. I was born in Marshall, Texas, in 1854. Me mother was named Millie Henderson and...
JAMES CAPE, centenarian, now living in a dilapidated little shack in the rear of the stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas, was born a slave to Mr. Bob Houston, who owned a large ranch i...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) J.M. Johnson, Field Worker Jacksonville, Florida November 17, 1936 LOUIS NAPOLEON About three miles from South Jackso...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320235] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 863 Subject: HERNDON BOGAN Story Teller: Herndon Bogan Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] HERNDON BOGAN...
Charlie Davenport, Ex-slave, Adams County FEC Edith Wyatt Moore Rewrite, Pauline Loveless Edited, Clara E. Stokes [CHARLIE DAVENPORT Natchez, Mississippi] "I was named Charlie Dave...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mary Teel Holly Grove, Ark. Age: 74 "Our Masters was Wade and Curls. Miss Fannie was Master Wade's wife. They was kin somehow....
Code No. Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, December 13, 1937 No. Words ---- Reduced from ---- words Rewritten by ---- LIZZIE DAVIS Ex-Slave,...
Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, February 4, 1938 LIZZIE'S 'SPONSIBILITY I. The first scene of "Lizzie's 'Sponsibility" is that of the smal...
Prince Johnson, Ex-slave, Coahoma County FEC Mrs. Carrie Campbell Rewrite, Pauline Loveless Edited, Clara E. Stokes PRINCE JOHNSON Clarksdale, Mississippi "Yes mam, I sho' can tell...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Alice Biggs Holly Grove, Ark. Age: "Bout 70" "My mother come from Kentucky and my father from Virginia. That where they born a...
Ellen B. Warfield May 18, 1937 ALICE LEWIS. (Alice Lewis, ex-slave, 84, years old, in charge of sewing-room at Provident Hospital (Negro), Baltimore. Tall, slender, erect, her head...
Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person Interviewed: Edward Bradley 115 South Plum Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 70 "I was seventy years old this last past June, the sixth day. Lots...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: J.L. Smith 1215 Pulaski Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 76 "I was born in 1862 in the month of September on the fifteenth. I wa...
PLANTATION LIFE AS VIEWED BY EX-SLAVE JULIA COLE, Age 78 169 Yonah Avenue Athens, Georgia Written by: Corry Fowler Athens Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens Leila Harris Augusta and J...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves 10-19-38 718 words LIZA SMITH Age 91 Muskogee, Oklahoma Both my mammy and pappy was brought from Africa on a slave boat and sold on de Richmond...
Code No. Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, December 21, 1937 No. Words ---- Reduced from ---- words Rewritten by ---- LIZZIE DAVIS Ex-Slave,...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Peter Brown. Helena, Arkansas Age: 86 "I was born on the Woodlawn place. It was owned by David and Ann Hunt. I was born a slav...