Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: J.N. Brown 3500 West 7th Ave. Pine Bluff, Ark. Age: 79 Occupation: Sells peanuts from wagon "Yes'm, I was livin' in slavery times--m...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320276] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 402 Subject: Ex-Slave Story Person Interviewed: Martha Allen Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 7 1937"...
El Dorado District FOLKLORE SUBJECTS Name of Interviewer: Pernella Anderson Subjects: Customs related to Slavery Time [HW: Ex Slave Story] Subject: Food--Particular foods typical a...
Ex-Slave Stories 5th District Vanderburgh County Lauana Creel 1415 S. Barker Avenue, Evansville, Indiana THE BIOGRAPHY OF A CHILD BORN IN SLAVERY SAMUEL WATSON [HW: Personal Interv...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Ida Bryant, Hazea. Arkansas (Very very black Negro woman) Age: 61 "My mother was Hulda Williams. Grandpa was Jack Williams. He...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Ella Daniels 1223 W. Eleventh Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 74, or over [HW: Food Rationed] "I was born in North Carolina, in...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Tanner Thomas 1213 Louisiana, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born down here at Rob Roy on the river on the Emory place. My...
FOLKLORE SUBJECTS Name of Interviewer--S. S. Taylor Person interviewed--H. B. Holloway (Dad or Pappy) Story: Birth, Parentage "I never lived in the country. I lived in town. But so...
WILL--Nancy Austin: In the name of God, Amen. I, Nancy Austin of sound mind and disposing memory, but weak in body, do make and publish this as my last will and Testament. In the f...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Walter Jones, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 72 "My father run away scared of the Yankees. He got excited and left. My mother didn't...
=Project 1885-1= =FOLKLORE= =Spartanburg, S.C.= =May 25, 1937= =Edited by:= =Elmer Turnage= =STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES= "I was born on the Enoree River in Newberry County. Tom Price w...
ISSABELLA BOYD was born a slave of Gus Wood, in Richmond, Va., who moved to Texas by boat before the Civil War. Isabella still lives in Beaumont. "Lemme see, I come from Richmond,...
Project #1655 Stiles M. Scruggs Columbia S.C. LAVINIA HEYWARD'S STORY OF SLAVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION. Lavinia Heyward, a Negro woman 67 years old, living at 515 Marion Street, Colum...
#656 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lizzie Hawkens Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 65 "I was born close to Magnolia, Arkansas. "My mother was Harriett Marshal. Her old...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Lucretia Alexander 1708 High Street. Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 89 "I been married three times and my last name was Lucretia Alexa...
MARY KINDRED was a slave on the Luke Hadnot plantation in Jasper, Texas. She does not know her age but thinks she is about 80. She now lives in Beaumont, Texas. "My mind don't dwel...
MAY 31 1938 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Rebecca Brown Hill Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born October 18, 1859 in northeast Mississippi in Chickasaw C...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Maria Sutton Clemments, DeValls Bluff, Ark. Age: Between 85 and 90 years [TR: Also reported as Maria Sutton Clements] I don't...
[HW: Dist. 1 Ex-Slave #96] [HW: Good ghost story on page 4.] [HW: "revolution drummer" parts very good.] EX-SLAVE INTERVIEW NANCY SETTLES, Ex-slave, Age 92 2511 Wheeler Road (Richm...
CHARLOTTE BEVERLY was born a slave to Captain Pankey's wife, in Montgomery County, Texas. She has lived most of her life within a radius of 60 miles from Houston, and now lives wit...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320111] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 1153 Subject: EMMA BLALOCK Story Teller: Emma Blalock Editor: Geo. L. Andrews [TR: Date Stamp "AUG 6 1937"] EMMA B...
Name of interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: Laura House Russellville, Arkansas Age: 75? "No sir, I don't remember hearing my parents ever tell me just when I was bo...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Rosie Johnson, Holly Grove, Arkansas Age: 76 "I was born and raised on Mr. Dial's place. Mama belong to them. My papa belong t...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Will Glass 715 W. Eighth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 50 Occupation: All phases of paving work [HW: [Bit Dog's Foot Off]] "M...
--- 11 1938 Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Charles Graham 616 W. 27th Street, North Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 79 [HW: [Freed in '63]] "I was born September 27,...
[HW: Dist. 1 Ex-Slave #90] SUBJECT: FANNY RANDOLPH--EX-SLAVE Jefferson, Georgia RESEARCH WORKER: MRS. MATTIE B. ROBERTS EDITOR: JOHN N. BOOTH SUPERVISOR: MISS VELMA BELL DISTRICT:...
Interviewer: Watt McKinney Person interviewed: Lucian Abernathy, Marvell, Arkansas Age: 85 "I was borned in de 'streme norf part of Mississippi nigh de Tennessee line. You mought s...
Interviewer: Miss Sallie C. Miller Person interviewed: Mandy Lee, Coal Hill, Arkansas Age: 85 "Yes'm I was a slave. I been here. I heard the bugles blowing, the fife beat, the drum...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320115] Worker: Mary Hicks No. Words: 462 Subject: PLANTATION LIFE IN GEORGIA Reference: Midge Burnett Editor: George L. Andrews [TR: Date Stamp "AUG 6 1937"...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves 10-14-37 [Date stamp: NOV 5 1937] EASTER WELLS Age 83 Colbert, Okla. I was born in Arkansas, in 1854, but we moved to Texas in 1855. I've heard...