Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Mandy Johnson 607 Cypress Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 92 "This is me. I'se old and ain't no 'count. I was done grown when...
Interviewer: Pernella Anderson Person Interviewed: O. C. Hardy El Dorado, Ark. Age: 69 "O. C. Hardy is my name and I is 69 years old. I like [HW: lack? KWF] a lot of being a real o...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320017] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 738 Subject: Ex-Slave Story Story Teller: Essex Henry Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 26 1937"] ESSE...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: James Bertrand 1501 Maple Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 68 [HW: "Pateroles" Botlund Father] "I have heard my father tell abou...
Betty Lugabill, Reporter [TR: also reported as Lugabell] Harold Pugh, Editor R.S. Drum, Supervisor Jun 9, 1937 Folklore: Ex-Slaves Paulding Co., District 10 KISEY McKIMM Ex-Slave,...
Interviewer: Pernella Anderson Person Interviewed: Edmond Smith D Avenue El Dorado, Ark. Age: ? "I was born in Arcadia, Louisiana a long, long time ago. Now my work when I was a ch...
FOLKLORE (Negro) Edwin Driscoll [MRS. JULIA RUSH, MR. GEORGE LEONARD, MR. HENRY HOLMES, MR. ELLIS STRICKLAND, MR. SAM STEVENS, JOE (a boy)] The Negro folklore as recounted below wa...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Josie Martin R.F.D., Madison, Arkansas Age: 86 "I was born up near Cotton Plant but took down near Helena to live. My parents...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Fannie Parker 1908 W. Sixth Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 90? "Yes, honey, this is old Fannie. I'se just a poor old nigger...
Maryland Sept. 30, 1937 Rogers GEORGE JONES, Ex-slave. Reference: Personal interview with George Jones, Ex-slave, at African M.E. Home, 207 Aisquith St., Baltimore. "I was born in...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ida May Fluker Route 6, Box 80, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 83 "I was born in slavery times in Clark County, Alabama. Clover Hill...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Omelia Thomas 1014 W. Fifth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 63 "I was born in Marianna, Lee County, in Arkansas. I wasn't born...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Omelia Thomas 519 W. Ninth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: About 70 Occupation: Making cotton and corn "I was born in Louisiana...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Jane Reece 819 W. Ninth Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85 "I know this--I'm 85. I was born in North Carolina. "Oh, yes'm, I...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon,= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =MACK TAYLOR= =EX-SLAVE 97 YEARS.= Mack Taylor lives six miles southeast of Ridgeway, S.C., on his farm of ninety-seven acres. The h...
Project 1885-1 Ex-slave--(Pick Gladdeny, Pomaria, Rt. 3, S.C. Interviewer: Caldwell Sims, Union, S.C. EARLY RECOLLECTIONS. Typist: Louise Dawkins, Rt. 4, Union, S.C. "Ah sees all t...
ROCKCASTLE CO. (Robert Mullins) The years 1843 to 1845 worked the development of the systematic enticing away, or stealing of slaves from Kentucky slave owners, and the passing the...
Project 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, Jane 23, 1937 WASHINGTON DOZIER Ex-Slave, 90 years "Dis heah sho' Washington Dozier. Dat is wha' de hard ti...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Mrs. Dicey Thomas 2500 Center Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: About 82 "I was born in Barbour County, Alabama. When I was born,...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: "Doc" John Pope, Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 87 I am 87 years old for a fact. I was born in De Soto County, Mississippi, eight miles...
Project #-1655 Mrs. Genevieve W. Chandler Murrells Inlet, S.C. Georgetown County FOLKLORE AUNT ELLEN GODFREY (Ex-Slave) (Verbatim Conversation) (Aunt Ellen is a misfit in her prese...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Ellie Hamilton (male) Clarendon, Arkansas Age: "I was born about near Holly Springs, Mississippi. My parents' masters' name Wi...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Nellie Dunne 3900 W. Sixth Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 "Yes ma'am, I was slavery born but free raised. I was half as b...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Sneed Teague Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 68 Occupation: Works on railroad "My owners was Miss Betsy and Master Teague. Miss Betsy...
Interviewer: Irene Robertson Subject: Ex-slave Information given by: Callie Donalson, Biscoe, Arkansas Story I wasn't born in slavery but I was born in the white folks kitchen. Bob...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320184] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 655 Subject: MARGARET E. DICKENS Story Teller: Margaret E. Dickens Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Pearl Randolph, Field Worker Jacksonville, Florida December 5, 1936 EDWARD LYCURGAS "Pap tell us 'nother story 'bout...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Saint Johnson Izard Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: -- Occupation: Drayman "As far as slavery is concerned I know nothing about...
Project #-1655 Phoebe Faucette Hampton County SILVIA CHISOLM Ex-Slave 88 Years Old "Aunt Silvie", sitting out in the sunshine in the yard of a small negro cabin, on a warm day in J...
Circumstances of Interview STATE--Arkansas NAME OF WORKER--Samuel S. Taylor ADDRESS--Little Rock, Arkansas DATE--December, 1938 SUBJECT--Ex-slave 1. Name and address of informant--...