S-260-264-N Project #1885 Augustus Ladson Charleston, S.C. No. Words: 1195 EX-SLAVE 101 YEARS OF AGE HAS NEVER SHAKEN HANDS SINCE 1863 WAS ON KNEES SCRUBBING WHEN FREEDOM GUN FIRED...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Pearl Randolph, Field Worker Madison, Florida January 30, 1937 WILLIS DUKES Born in Brooks County, Georgia, 83 years...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320280] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 789 Subject: Cornelia Andrews Story Teller: Cornelia Andrews Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 7 1937"...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Louis Johnson 721 Missouri Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 86 "My father said I was fifteen when peace was declared. In slave...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 740 Subject: ELLEN TRELL Person Interviewed: Ellen Trell Editor: G.L. Andrews [TR: Date stamp: SEP 10 1937] ELLEN TRELL Age...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Evelina Morgan 1317 W. Sixteenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: App. 81 [TR: Original first page moved to follow second page p...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Frank Cannon R.F.D., two miles, Palestine, Arkansas Age: 77 "I was born three miles west of Starkville, Mississippi on a prett...
=Code No.= =Project, 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date, June 2, 1937= =NANCY WASHINGTON= =Ex-Slave, 104 years.= "Come in child. Jes set right der...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Oscar James Rogers, Wheatley, Arkansas Age: Up in 70's "I come to dis state in 1885. I run off from my parents back in North C...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320281] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 386 Subject: JOHN DANIELS Story Teller: John Daniels Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] JOHN DANIELS Ex-...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320212] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 914 Subject: Ex-Slave Story Story Teller: Willie Cozart Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] EX-SLAVE STOR...
Interviewer: S.S. Taylor Person interviewed: Robert Barr 3108 West 18th St. Little Rock, Ark. Age: 73 Occupation: Preaching [HW: A Preacher Tells His Story] "I am a minister of the...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320165] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 1430 Subject: Days on the Plantation Person Interviewed: Uncle David Blount Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Sta...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Pauline Fakes, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 74 "My mama come from Virginia. Her owner was Moses Crawford. He had a bachelor son Pri...
=Project 1885-1= =Folklore= =Spartanburg, Dist. 4= =Feb. 4, 1938= =Edited by:= =Elmer Turnage= =STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES= "March 15, 1862 is de date I allus takes when folks axes how...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Charlie Jones 1303 Ohio Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 76 "I was borned in '61 in the State of Mississippi August the 15th....
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 Sept. 22, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I was born near the village of Maybinton, and lived on old Squire Kenner...
Project 1885-1 District #4 Spartanburg, S. C. May 31, 1937 FOLKLORE: EX-SLAVES "I was born on the other side of Maybinton, in Newberry County, South Carolina. Old Squire Kenner was...
Interviewer: Miss Bailie C. Miller Person interviewed: Mag Brown, Clarksville, Arkansas Age: 85 "I was born in North Carolina and come South with my white folks. They was trying to...
NANCY JACKSON, about 105 years old, was born in Madison Co., Tennessee, a slave of the Griff Lacy family. She was married during slavery and was the mother of three children when s...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320182] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 339 Subject: VINEY BAKER Story Teller: Viney Baker Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] VINEY BAKER Ex-Sla...
Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #6 Marion County Anna Pritchett 1200 Kentucky Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana FOLKLORE MRS. JULIA BOWMAN--EX-SLAVE 1210 North West Str...
Mary Wright: Mary Wright, 204 W. Fourth St., Born August 1, 1865. "I was born at Gracey, Kentucky on Mr. James Colemans far, in a log cabin wid a dirt floor en a stick chimney. "Fo...
EX-SLAVE MILDRED HEARD. The following interviews were obtained from Mildred Heard, a young woman who has lived in the country most of her life and might easily be described as a ch...
Project #1655 Stiles M. Scruggs Columbia, S. C. AN EX-SLAVE WHO CLIMBED UP WITH WHITE FOLKS. Tom Chisolm, a sixty-two year old bricklayer, 11 Railroad Street, Columbia, S. C., is a...
EX-SLAVES Interviewer: Pernella Anderson [HW: Hicks, Will] "I was born in Farmerville, La., I don't know what year. I was about three or four years at surrender. I lived with my mo...
Interviewer: Beulah Sherwood Hagg Person interviewed: Mrs. Cora Gillam 1023 Arch Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 86 [HW: [Scratching Pacified Master.]] "I have never been entire...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Emmett Beal, Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born in Holloman County, Bolivar, Tennessee. Master Dr. Jim May owned my set er f...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: George Johnson 814 W. Ninth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 75 "I was born in Richmond, Virginia, September 28, 1862, and came...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lizzie Dunn, Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 88 "I was born close to Hernando, Mississippi. My parents was Cassie Gillahm and Ely Gil...