CHRISTIAN CO. (Mamie Hanberry) [TR: also spelled Hanbery.] Annie B. Boyd: Annie B. Boyd, born August 22nd 1851, resides at corner of Liberty and First Street, Hopkinsville, Kentuck...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Rose Adway 405 W. Pullen, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 76 "I was born three years 'fore surrender. That's what my people told me....
Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: Sam Scott, Russellville, Arkansas Age: 79 "Hello dar, Mistah L----! Don' you dare pass by widout speakin' to dis old niggah frie...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Ellen Fitzgerald Brinkley, Ark. Age: 74 "Mama was named Anna Noles. Papa named Milias Noles. She belong to the Whitakers and h...
Interviewer: Mrs. Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Ike McCoy, Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 65 [TR: Illegible words indicated by "----", questionable words followed by "?".] "My parents...
CLARK CO. (Mayme Nunnelley) The first records of Slaves in Clark County was given by a descendant of one of the members of the little band of resolute Revolutionary soldiers who ha...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg, Dist. 4 Aug. 24, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "Sunday, Aug. 1, was my 82nd ~HW: 84th?~] birthday; so I was born in 1853...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Subject: Ex-slavery Story: Birth, Parents, Master. Person Interviewed: J.M. Parker, (dark brown) Address: 1002 Ringo Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Occ...
District #7 Adella S. Dixon, Macon, Georgia MATILDA McKINNEY 100 Empire Avenue, Macon, Georgia [Date Stamp: JUL 28 1937] Matilda McKinney was born in Texas but was brought to south...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: AUG 19 1937] JANE MONTGOMERY Age 80 yrs. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma I was born March 15, 1857, in Homer, Louisiana. I claim to be 75 y...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Larkin Payne Brinkley, Ark. Age: 85 "I was born in North Carolina. I don't recall my moster's name. My parents was Sarah Hadyn...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: R.F. Parker 619 N. Hickory, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 76 "I was born in '62. I reckon I was born in slavery times. Born in Ripl...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 944 Subject: RICHARD C. MORING Story teller: Richard C. Moring Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt RICHARD C. MORING Ex-Slave Story An...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 Sept. 16, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I live on Mr. Sim Bickley's farm, about five miles northwest of Newberry...
Project #1655 W.W. Dixon Winnsboro, S.C. JIM HENRY EX-SLAVE 77 YEARS OLD. Jim Henry lives with his wife, Mary, in a four-room frame house, three miles southeast of Winnsboro, S.C....
MARY ELLEN JOHNSON, owner of a little restaurant at 1301 Marilla St., Dallas, Texas, is 77 years old. She was born in slavery to the Murth family, about ten miles from San Marcos,...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: AUG 16 1937] MARY LINDSAY Age 91 yrs. Tulsa, Oklahoma. My slavery days wasn't like most people tell you about, 'cause I was give to...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Rachel Perkins, Goodwin, Arkansas Age: ? Baby during the Civil War "I was born in Greensboro, Alabama. Sallie Houston and Pete...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Victoria McMullen 1416 E. Valmar, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 54 Occupation: Seamstress "My mother was born March 16, 1865, and kne...
[HW: Dist. -- Ex-Slv. #10] ARRIE BINNS OF WASHINGTON-WILKES by Minnie Branham Stonestreet Washington-Wilkes Georgia [MAY 8 1937] Arrie Binns lives in Baltimore, a negro suburb of W...
GEORGIA TELFAIR, Age 74 Box 131, R.F.D. #2 Athens, Ga. Written by: Miss Grace McCune Athens, Ga. Edited by: Mrs. Sarah H. Hall Athens, Ga. and Mrs. Leila Harris Augusta, Ga. [Date...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Mattie Nelson 710 E. Fourth Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 72 "I was born in Chicot County, Arkansas in '65. They said I was...
JAN 14 1938 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mike Genes Holly Grove, Ark. Age: 72 "I heard folks talk is all I know bout slavery. I was born in Arkansas. My mo...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Richard Crump 1801 Gaines Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 82 [HW: Father Takes a "Deadening"] "I was born right here in Aberdee...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Kato Benton Creed Taylor Place, Tamo Pike Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born in South Carolina before the War. I ain't no...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Luke D. Dixon DeValls Bluff, Ark. Age: 81 "My father's owner was Jim Dixon in Elmo County, Virginia. That is where I was born....
VICTOR DUHON was born 97 years ago in Lafayette Parish, La., a slave of the Duhon family. His blue eyes and almost white skin are evidence of the white strain in his blood. Even af...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Cyntha Jones 3006 W. Tenth Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 88 "Well, here's one of em. Born down in Drew County. "Simpson Dab...
Interviewer: Zillah Cross Peel Information given by: "Gate-eye" Fisher Residence: Washington County, Arkansas "I was jes' a baby crawlin' 'round on the floor when War come" said "G...
PLANTATION LIFE AS VIEWED BY AN EX-SLAVE JULIA LARKEN, Age 76 693 Meigs Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Miss Grace McCune Athens Edited by: Mrs. Sarah H. Hall Athens and John N....