Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Hannah Hancock [HW: Biscoe, Arkansas?] Age: Past 80 "I was born in Chesterfield County, South Carolina. My mother's name was C...
FOLKLORE SUBJECTS Little Rock District Name of Interviewer: Irene Robertson Subject: Spells--Voodoo-- Story--Information (If not enough space on this page add page) I asked her if...
Miriam Logan Lebanon, Ohio July 8th Warren County, District 2 Story of REVEREND WILLIAMS, Aged 76, Colored Methodist Minister, Born Greenbriar County, West Virginia (Born 1859) "I...
Dibble, Fred Beaumont, Jefferson Co. Dist. #3 ROSA GREEN, 85 years old, was born at Ketchi, Louisiana, but as soon as she was old enough became a housegirl on the plantation of Maj...
Albert Strope, Field Worker Federal Writers' Project St. Joseph County--District #1 Mishawaka, Indiana ADELINE ROSE LENNOX--EX-SLAVE 1400 South Sixth Street, Elkhart, Indiana Adeli...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 453 Subject: Ex-Slave Stories Person Interviewed: Adora Rienshaw Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date stamp: JUN 1 (unclear) 1...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Betty Coleman 1112-1/2 Indiana Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 80 Occupation: Cotton Picker [Dec 31 1937] "My father belonged...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Cora Scroggins, Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 48 or 50 "My mother was born in Spring Hill, Tennessee and brought to Arkansas by her...
Interviewer: Mary D. Hudgins Person Interviewed: Emma Sanderson Home: 617 Wade Street, Hot Springs. Aged: 75 "Emma Sanderson"--"Wade Street". That was all the prospective interview...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Willie Buck Charleston, Jr., Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 74 "I was born up here on the Biscoe place before Mr. Biscoe was heard of i...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 June 1, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "Yas Sir, my ole Marster had lots o' land, a big plantation down at Lockhar...
Mississippi Federal Writers Slave Autobiographies CLARA C. YOUNG Monroe County, Mississippi Clara G. Young, ex-slave, Monroe County, is approximately 95 years old, about five feet...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Mamie Thompson Brinkley, Ark. Age: 68 "I come here with my parents in 1887. Nothing much here in Brinkley then but woods and t...
Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: Nellie James, Russellville, Arkansas Age: 72 "Nellie James is my name. Yes, Mr. D. B. James was my husband, and he remembered yo...
PLANTATION LIFE ANDERSON FURR, Age 87 298 W. Broad Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Sadie B. Hornsby [HW: (white)] Athens Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens Leila Harris Augusta and...
=Project 1885 -1-= =District #4= =Spartanburg, S.C.= =June 7, 1937= =FOLK-LORE: EX-SLAVE= "I was born about 1849 in the Dutch Fork section of Newberry County, S.C. I was slave of I...
Oklahoma Writer's Project Ex-Slaves POLLY COLBERT Age 83 yrs. Colbert, Oklahoma I am now living on de forty-acre farm dat de Government give me and it is just about three miles fro...
Project 1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. ANDERSON BATES EX-SLAVE 87 YEARS OLD. Anderson Bates lives with his son-in-law and daughter, Ed and Dora Owens, in a three-room frame hous...
EX-SLAVE INTERVIEW JULIA BUNCH, Age 85 Beech Island South Carolina Written by: Leila Harris Augusta Edited by: John N. Booth District Supervisor Federal Writers' Project Res. 6 & 7...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =TOM ROSBORO= =EX-SLAVE 79 YEARS OLD.= Tom Rosboro lives with his daughter, Estelle Perry, in a three-room frame house, on Cemetery S...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: John Jones 3109 W. 10th Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 82 "I come here in 1856--you can figure it out for yourself. I was bo...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: John Jones, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 71 "I was raised an orph'ant but I was born in Tennessee. I lived over there and farmed ti...
PLANTATION LIFE NEAL UPSON, Age 81 450 4th Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Miss Grace McCune [HW: (White)] Athens Edited by: Mrs. Sarah H. Hall Athens and John N. Booth District...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Landy Rucker 2315 W. Fourth Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 83 "I was born in 1854 in the State of Georgia, Elbert County. "I...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Lidia Jones 228 N. Oak Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 94 Occupation: None--blind "I was born in Mississippi and emigrated to...
Tale of Mary Wooldridge: (Clarksville Pike--Age about 103.) "Mary and her twin sister were slaves born in Washington County, Kentucky, near Lexington, belonging to Bob Eaglin. When...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 July 20, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "Some white men called in question today about de reigning governor enduri...
Project 1885-1 Folklore Spartanburg, Dist. 4 Nov. 10, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I is gwine over to Tosch to see Maria. Everybody know Maria. She go by R...
GREEN CUMBY, 86, was born a slave of the Robert H. Cumby family, in Henderson, Texas. He was about 14 at the close of the Civil War. He stayed with his old master four years after...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Katie Arbery 815 W. Thirteenth, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 80 "I am eighty years old. My name 'fore I was a Arbery was Baxter. M...