=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =NED WALKER= =EX-SLAVE 83 YEARS OLD.= Ned Walker lives in the village of White Oak, near Winnsboro, S.C., in a two-room frame house,...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Martin Richardson, Field Worker South Jacksonville, Florida December 8, 1936 SHACK THOMAS, Centenarian Beady-eyed, gr...
[HW: Dist. 5 Ex-Slave #84] Whitley, Driskell 1-20-37 SLAVERY AS WITNESSED BY ANNIE PRICE [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937] Mrs. Annie Price was born in Spaulding County, Georgia October 12,...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320047] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 737 Subject: CHANEY HEWS Person Interviewed: Chaney Hews Editor: G. L. Andrews [TR: No Date Stamp] CHANEY HEWS 80...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: E.L. Byrd 618 N. Cedar, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 76 "I was born in 1862. I just can remember the Yankees. They come through th...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Emma Turner 330 W. Sixth Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 83 "Yes ma'am, I was born in slavery days. They never did tell me wh...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Frances Fluker, Edmondson, Arkansas Age: 77 [May 11 1938] "I was born the 25th day of December 1860 in Marshall County, Missis...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Wade Thermon, R.F.D. (PWA Reservation), Des Arc, Arkansas Age: 67 "I was born in Boswell, Oklahoma. My mother and father was b...
#773 Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Cora L. Horton 918 W. Ninth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: Between 50 and 60? "My grandfather on my mother's side was a s...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Ed Allen, Des Arc, Ark. Age: ? "I know that after freedom they took care of my pa and ma and give em a home long as they lived...
Jenny McKee: Mrs. Jenny McKee, of color, who lives just North of London can tell many interesting things of her life. "Aunt Jenny" as she is called, is about eighty-five years of a...
=Project 1885-1= =Folklore= =Spartanburg, Dist. 4= =Jan. 17, 1937= =Edited by:= =Elmer Turnage= =STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES= "My people tells me a lot about when I was a lil' wee boy....
Folklore District #5 Vanderburgh County Lauana Creel "A TRADITION FROM PRE-CIVIL WAR DAYS" KATIE SUTTON, AGED EX-SLAVE Oak street, Evansville, Ind. "White folks 'jes naturally diff...
INTERVIEW WILEY CHILDRESS 808 Gay St. Nashville, Tennessee "I'se 83 Y'ars ole en wuz bawn a slave. Mah mammy b'longed ter de Bosley's en mah daddy b'longed ter de Scales." "W'en Mi...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320116] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 465 Subject: Eustace Hodges Story Teller: Eustace Hodges Editor: Geo. L. Andrews [TR: Date Stamp "AUG 6 1937"] EUSTA...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Henry C. Pettus, Marianna, Arkansas Age: 80 "I was born in Wilkes County, near Washington, Georgia. My mother's owners was Dr....
[HW: Dist. 5 E.F. Driskell 12/30/36 JULIA RUSH, Ex-Slave 109 years old] [TR: The beginning of each line on the original typewritten pages for this interview is very faint, and some...
Aunt VIRGINIA BELL, 1205 Ruthven St., Houston, was born a slave near Opelousas, Louisiana, on the plantation of Thomas Lewis. Although she remembers being told she was born on Chri...
Project #1665 W.W. Dixon Winnsboro, S.C. GRACIE GIBSON EX-SLAVE 86 YEARS OLD. "I was born at Palatka, Florida. I was a slave of Captain John Kinsler. Wish all white men was just li...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Letha Johnson 2203 W. Twelfth Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 77 "I heered the people say I was born in time of slavery. I wa...
Code No. Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, October 5, 1937 No. Words Reduced from ---- words Rewritten by ---- SYLVIA CANNON, Ex-Slave, Age...
Code No. Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, August 4, 1937 No. Words ---- Reduced from ---- words Rewritten by ---- SYLVIA CANNON Ex-Slave, A...
BILL HOMER, 87, was born a slave on June 17, 1850, to Mr. Jack Homer, who owned a large plantation near Shreveport, La. In 1860 Bill was given to Mr. Homer's daughter, who moved to...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 801 Subject: PENNY WILLIAMS Story teller: Penny Williams Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt PENNY WILLIAMS Ex-Slave Story An interview...
Interviewer: Pernella Anderson, colored. EX-SLAVES Yes I was born in slavery time. I was born September 2, 1862 in the field under a tree. I don't know nothing about slavery. I was...
PLANTATION LIFE as viewed by Ex-Slave GEORGIA JOHNSON 1537 W. Broad Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Grace McCune Athens -- Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens Leila Harris Augusta G...
COMBINED INTERVIEWS [HW: Dist 1-2 Ex-Slave #24] FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECTS, Augusta-Athens Supervisor: Miss Velma Bell [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937] EXCERPTS FROM SLAVE INTERVIEWS [ADELI...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: J. Roberts, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 45 or 50 Occupation: Methodist preacher "My father was a Federal soldier in the Civil War....
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mattie Fannen, Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 87 "My mother was named Silla Davis. She had four children. Her owners was Jep Davi...
Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #6 Marion County Anna Pritchett 1200 Kentucky Avenue FOLKLORE RICHARD MILLER--AN OLD SOLDIER 1109 North West Street Richard Miller w...