N. C. District: No. 2 [320244] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 745 Subject: LIZZIE BAKER Person Interviewed: Lizzie Baker Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] LIZZIE B...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Malindy Robinson 8th Street, West Memphis, Arkansas Age: 61 "I was born in Wilkerson County, Mississippi. My ma never was sold...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Molly Finley, Honey Creek 3-1/2 miles from Mesa, Arkansas Age: Born 1865 "My master was Captain Baker Jones and his pa was Joh...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Sarah Pittman 1320 W. Twentieth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: About 82 "I never saw nothing between white folks and colored f...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Subject: Ex-Slaves Story:--Information This information given by: Winnie Davis (C) Place of residence: 304 E. Twenty-First Street Pine Bluff, Arkan...
Interviewer: Mrs. Annie L. LaCotts Person interviewed: Adeline Burris, DeWitt, Arkansas Age; 91 Adeline Burris is a little old white-haired wrinkled-faced mulatto or yellow Negro w...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Frank A. Patterson 906 Chester Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 88 "I was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1850. My father was...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Frank Briles 817 Cross Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: About 82 or 83 [HW: Gives up the Ghost] "I was born right here in Arkans...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Jeff Metcalf R.F.D., Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 73 "My mother's name was Julia Metcalf and my father's name was Jim Metcalf. They...
Project 1885-1 Spartanburg, S. C. May 31, 1937 Edited by: Martha Ritter FOLKLORE: EX-SLAVES "I was born in Newberry County, S. C. below Prosperity on Capt. George De Walt's place....
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Maggie Broyles. Forrest City. Arkansas Age: About 80? "I was born in Decatur, Tennessee. Mother was sold on the block at publi...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Rosetta Davis, Marianna, Arkansas Age: 55 "I was born in Phillips County, Arkansas. My folks' master was named Dr. Jack Spivy....
Name of Interviewer: Velma Sample Subject: Slavery Days THE ATTACK THE YANKEES MADE ON JOHNNIE REAVES PLACE GIVEN BY AUNT ELCIE BROWN Aunt Elcie Brown (a negro girl age nine years...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Jim Davis 1112 Indiana Street Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 98 "Well, I've broke completely down. I ain't worth nothing. Got rheuma...
FOLKLORE SUBJECTS Name of interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Subject: Slavery Time Songs Subject: Superstitions Story:--Information [TR: Additional topic moved from subsequent page.]...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: John Goodson (Goodrum) Des Arc, Arkansas Age: Born in 1865 "My master was Bill Goodrum. I was born at Des Arc out in the count...
Interviewer: Pernella M. Anderson Person interviewed: Millie Johnson (Old Bill) El Dorado, Arkansas Age: ? "I was born in Caledonia, Arkansas but I don't know when. I just can't te...
PLANTATION LIFE AS VIEWED BY EX-SLAVE WILLIAM McWHORTER, Age 78 383 W. Broad Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Mrs. Sadie B. Hornsby Athens Edited by: Mrs. Sarah H. Hall Athens an...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Cinda Johnson 506 E. Twenty, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 83 "Yes ma'm, this is Cinda. Yes'm, I remember seein' the soldiers but I...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Linley Hadley Madison, Arkansas Age: 77 "I was born the very day the Civil War started, April 12, 1861. I was born in Monroe C...
MADISON BRUIN, 92, spent his early days as a slave on the Curtis farm in the blue grass region of Kentucky, where he had some experience with some of the fine horses for which the...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves MATILDA POE Age 80 yrs. McAlester, Okla. I was born in Indian Territory on de plantation of Isaac Love. He was old Master, and Henry Love was yo...
Grace Monroe Dist. 4 Jefferson County SLAVE STORY MR. MATTHEW HUME, A FORMER SLAVE Mr. Hume had many interesting experiences to tell concerning the part slavery had played in his f...
Spartanburg, S. C. District No. 4 May 27, 1937. Edited by R. V. Williams [~HW: Lambrigh~] Folk Lore: Folk Tales (negro) "I was 'bout nine year ole when de big war broke loose. My p...
Project 1885-1 FOLK LORE Spartanburg, S.C. May 10, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage SLAVE STORIES Living with his married daughter is an old negro slave by the name of Jerry Hill. He...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 397 Subject: MARGARET THORNTON Person Interviewed: Margaret Thornton Editor: G.L. Andrews [TR: Date stamp: SEP 10 1937] MARGAR...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mary Frazier, near Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 60 "My parents was Neily and Amos Hamilton. They lived in Marshall County, about fort...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Minnie Johnson Stewart 3210 W. Sixteenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: Between 50 and 60? "My mother's name was Mahala McElro...
NELSEN DENSON, 90, was born near Hambirg, Arkansas, a slave of Jim Nelson, who sold Nelsen and his family to Felix Grundy. Nelsen's memory is poor, but he managed to recall a few i...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 607 Subject: TINEY SHAW, EX-SLAVE OF WAKE COUNTY, 76. Story Teller: Tiney Shaw Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt TINEY SHAW Ex-Slave...