Project 1885 District #4 Spartanburg, S.C. June 1, 1937 Edited by: Martha Ritter FOLKLORE: EX-SLAVES "I was born in 1861, at Gary's Lane, in Newberry County, S.C. My father and mot...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Enoch Beel; Green Grove, Hazen, Arkansas Age: 79 "Yes maam I was born a slave, born in slavery times. I wer born in Hardman Co...
N.C. District: 2 Worker: Mary Hicks No. Words: 260 Subject: MR. BELL'S PLANTATION Reference: Jacob Thomas Editor: George L. Andrews [TR: Date stamp: AUG 6 1937] MR. BELL'S PLANTATI...
Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #6 Marion County Anna Pritchett 1200 Kentucky Avenue FOLKLORE JOE ROBINSON--EX-SLAVE 1132 Cornell Avenue Joe Robinson was born in Ma...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lewis Chase; Des Arc, Arkansas Age: 90? [TR: Some word pronunciation was marked in this interview. Letters surrounded by [] re...
CHRISTIAN CO. (Mamie Hanbery) [HW: Ky 3] Story of Easter Sudie Campbell, (age about 72, Webber St., Hopkinsville, Ky.) Born in Princeton, Caldwell Co., Kentucky, her parents were s...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. FRANK ADAMSON EX-SLAVE 82 YEARS OLD. "I 'members when you was barefoot at de bottom; now I see you a settin' dere, gittin' bare at de top...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Frank Larkin 618 E. Fifteenth, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85 "I was somewhere 'bout twelve years old when the Civil War ended. I...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Hettie Mitchell (mulatto) Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 69 "I am sixty-nine years old. I was raised in Dyersburg, Tennessee. I can t...
VALMAR CORMIER was born a slave to Duplissent Dugat, a small slave-holder of Lafayette, Louisiana. He tells his story in a mixture of English and French. As far as he knows, he is...
Name of Interviewer: Martin-Barker Subject: Ex-Slave Story--Information (If not enough space on this page add page) This information given by: Frank Larkin Place of Residence: RFD...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Frank Larkin 1126 W. Second Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 77 "Yes ma'm, I was born in slavery times, right about 1860. I wa...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Isom Starnes, Marianna, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born in Marshall County, Alabama near Guntersville. Father belong to the Starn...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Lyttleton Dandridge 2800 W. Tenth Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 80 "I was told I was born in '57 in East Carroll Parish, Lo...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mary Allen Darrow, Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 74 "I was born at Monticello, Arkansas at the last of the Cibil (Civil) War. My...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Nely Gray 821 E. 18th Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 84 Occupation: Does a little quilting "Yes ma'm, I was sold from Richmo...
FOLKLORE INTERVIEW CARRIE NANCY FRYER 415 Mill Street Augusta, Georgia Written by: Miss Maude Barragan Federal Writers' Project Residency #13 Augusta, Georgia An angular, red-skinn...
Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Marguerite Perkins West Sixth and Catalpa Streets, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 81 "I was born in slavery times, Miss. I was born in So...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Nannie P. Madden West Memphis, Arkansas Age: 69 "I am Martha Johnson's sister. I was born at Lake Village, Arkansas. I am 69 y...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 712 Subject: CELIA ROBINSON Story teller: Celia Robinson Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt CELIA ROBINSON 611 E. Cabarrus St. "My n...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Jennie Ferrell, West Memphis, Arkansas Age: 65 "I was born in Yellowbush County, Mississippi close to Grenada. Grandmother com...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: John W. H. Barnett, Marianna, Arkansas Age: 81 "I was born at Clinton Parish, Louisiana. I'm eighty-one years old. My parents...
MILLIE FORWARD, about 95 years old, was born a slave of Jason Forward, in Jasper, Texas. She has spent her entire life in that vicinity, and now lives in Jasper with her son, Joe M...
Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Virginia Sims 1121 N. Magnolia Pine Bluff, Ark. Age: 93 Occupation: Retired Midwife "I was born in 1844. I was twenty when peace was...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: William Porter 1818 Louisiana Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 81 Occupation: Janitor of church "Yes'm I lived in slavery time...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Elizabeth Brannon, Biscoe, Arkansas (Packed to move somewhere else) Age: 40 plus "I was born in Helena, Arkansas. Grandma rais...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Felix Street 822 Schiller Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 74 I was born in Dickson County, Tennessee, fifty miles north of Nash...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Joe Tillman W. 10th and Highway No. 79 Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 79 "I was born in 1859 down here at Walnut Lake. The man what...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Leonard Franklin Temporary: 301 Ridgeway, Little Rock, Arkansas Permanent: Warren, Arkansas Age: 70 [HW: Mother Whipped Overseer]...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Liza Moore Tanner, Helena, Arkansas Age: 79 "I was born in north Georgia. It was not fer from Rome. We belong to Master Belton...