JULIA BLANKS was born of a slave mother and a three-quarter Indian father, in San Antonio, in the second year of the Civil War. Her mother, part French and part Negro, was owned by...
James Immel, Reporter Folklore Washington County, District Three SARAH WOODS BURKE Aged 85 "Yessir, I guess you all would call me an ex-slave cause I was born in Grayson County, We...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Alfred Farrell, Field Worker John A. Simms, Editor Titusville, Florida September 25, 1936 HENRY MAXWELL "Up from Slav...
=Project 1885-1= =Folklore= =Spartanburg, Dist. 4= =Oct. 11, 1937= =Edited by:= =Elmer Turnage= =STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES= "I live in a rented three-room house with my daughter. I am...
=Project 1885 -1-= =District #4= =Spartanburg, S.C.= =May 31, 1937= =Edited by:= =Martha Ritter= =FOLK-LORE: EX-SLAVES= "I was born in Edgefield county, S.C., about 1854. I was the...
INTERVIEW OF EX-SLAVE FROM VIRGINIA Reported by Rev. Edward Knox Jun. 9, 1937 Topic: Ex-slaves Guernsey County, District #2 JENNIE SMALL Ex-slave, over 80 years of age I was born i...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: AUG 13 1937] AMANDA OLIVER Age 80 yrs. Oklahoma City, Okla. I 'membuh what my mother say--I was born November 9, 1857, in Missouri....
[HW: Dist. 6 Ex-Slave #79] Folklore Mary A. Crawford Re-Search Worker FANNY NIX--Ex-Slave Interviewed [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937] Fanny was born in slavery and was "a great big girl"...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Nannie Jones 1601 Saracen Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 81 "Good morning. Come in. I sure is proud to see you. Yes ma'am, I...
PLANTATION LIFE AS VIEWED BY EX-SLAVE SUSAN CASTLE, Age 78 1257 W. Hancock Ave. Athens, Georgia Written by: Sadie B. Hornsby Athens Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens and John N. Boot...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Tom Morgan, Madison, Arkansas Age: 71 "My mother was the mother of fourteen of us children. Their names was Sarah and Richard...
=Code No.= =Project, 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date, July 14, 1937= =No. Words7= =Reduced fromwords= =Rewritten by= =WAY DOWN IN DE LONESOME V...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. JOHN COLLINS EX-SLAVE, 85 YEARS OLD. John Collins lives in a two-room frame cottage by the side of US 21, just one mile north of the town...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: John Johnson R.F.D., Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 73 "I was born sixteen miles on the other side of Jackson, Tennessee. The old mi...
PLANTATION LIFE as viewed by Ex-Slave NANCY SMITH, Age about 80 129 Plum Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Grace McCune Athens Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens and John N. Booth Di...
=Code No. 390144= =Project, 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date, July 14, 1937= =No. Words= =Reduced fromwords= =Rewritten by= =HECTOR SMITH= =Ex-S...
=Code No.= =Project, 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date, July 22, 1937= =No. Words= =Reduced fromwords= =Rewritten by= =HECTOR SMITH= =Ex-Slave, 7...
WEBSTER CO. (J. Dunbar) Slaves were brought and sold in Clay at one time. A large, stout negro woman in good health sold for $300 to $500. A large stout negro man sold for $1,000....
N. C. District: No. 2 [320148] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 377 Subject: Ex-Slave Recollections Person Interviewed: Lucy Brown Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 7...
RICHARD JACKSON, Harrison County farmer, was born in 1859, a slave of Watt Rosborough. Richard's family left the Rosboroughs when the Negroes were freed, and moved to a farm near W...
Maryland Sept. 27, 1937 Rogers ANNIE YOUNG HENSON, Ex-slave. Reference: Personal interview with Annie Young Henson, ex-slave, at African M.E. Home, 207 Aisquith St., Baltimore. "I...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =CHARLEY WATSON= =EX-SLAVE 87 YEARS OLD.= "Dis is a mighty hot day I tells you, and after climbing them steps I just got to fan mysel...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 991 Subject: ISAAC JOHNSON Story teller: Isaac Johnson Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt ISAAC JOHNSON Lillington, North Carolina,...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Sallie Crane See first paragraph in interviewer's comment for residences Age: 90, or more [HW: Whipped from Sunup to Sundown] "I w...
CAREY DAVENPORT, retired Methodist minister of Anahuac, Texas, appears sturdy despite his 83 years. He was reared a slave of Capt. John Mann, in Walker Co., Texas. His wife, who ha...
=S-260-264-N= =Project #935= =Hattie Mobley= =Richland County= =South Carolina= =Uncle Ransom Simmons= =Richland County, South Carolina.= Uncle Ransom is one of the few remaining s...
[RICHARD ORFORD, Age around 85] The following version of slavery was told by Mr. Richard Orford of 54 Brown Avenue in South Atlanta. Mr. Orford is large in statue and although 85 y...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320012] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 367 Subject: BLOUNT BAKER Person Interviewed: Blount Baker Editor: G. L. Andrews [TR: Date Stamp "SEP 10 1937"] BLOU...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Elizabeth Hines 1117 W. Fourteenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 70 "I was born January 10, 1868, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana....
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Isom Rogers, Edmondson, Arkansas Age: 67 "I was born in Tunica County, Austin, Mississippi. I been in Edmondson, Arkansas ten...