Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Willie Johnson (female) 1007 Izard, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 71 "My father said he had a real good master. When he got up large...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Hammett Dell, Brasfield, Arkansas Age: 90 [-- -- 1937] [TR: Some word pronunciation was marked in this interview. Letters surr...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Nettie Hopson Helena (home--Poplar Grove), Arkansas Age: ? "I don't know how old I is. I am old. I been here so long. I feel m...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Robert Solomon, Des Arc, Arkansas Age: 73 My father was African. He was born in Atlanta. My mother was a Cherokee Indian. Her...
WILLIAM HAMILTON belonged to a slave trader, who left him on the Buford plantation, near Village Creek, Texas. The trader did not return, so the Buford family raised the child with...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Dora Richard 3301 W. 14th Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 76 "I was born in South Carolina and I was my mother's baby chile....
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: John Nelson, Holly Grove, Arkansas Age: 76 "My parents was Jazz Nelson and Mahaney Nelson. He come from Louisiana durin' slave...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mag Johnson, Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 65 or 70? "Pa was born in North Ca'lina. Ma was born in Virginia. Their names George and...
=Project#-1655= =Phoebe Faucette= =Hampton County= =Approx. 416 words= =MAMIE RILEY= =Ex-Slave= "Aunt Mamie's" hair is entirely white. She lives in a neat duplex brick house with o...
[HW: Regrets End of Slavery] OLD SLAVE STORIES [TR: Sarah and Tom Douglas] [TR: Aunt Sarah Douglas]--Ah wuz baptized de second year of surrender. Wuz twelve years ole at de time an...
=Project 1885-1= =FOLKLORE= =Spartanburg Dist. 4= =May 25, 1937= =Edited by:= =Elmer Turnage= =STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES= "I am bad-sick woman, in bed and can't hardly talk and can't...
#657 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: John G. Hawkens Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 71 "I was born in Monroe County, Mississippi December 9, 1866. My parents was Franc...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Patsy Moore, Madison, Arkansas Age: 74 "My mother was sold in Jamestown, Virginia to Daphney Hull. Her white folks got in debt...
HARRIET BARRETT, 86, was born in Walker Co., Texas, in 1851, a slave of Steve Glass. She now lives in Palestine, Texas. "Massa Steve Glass, he own my pappy and mammy and me, until...
Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: Henry Russell, Russellville, Arkansas Age: 72 "My father's name was Ed Russell, and he was owned by Dr. Tom Russell, de first pi...
Project #1855 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. LOUISA DAVIS EX-SLAVE 106 YEARS OLD. "Well, well, well! You knows my white folks on Jackson Creek, up in Fairfield! I's mighty glad of da...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Mattie Aldridge Age: 60? Hazen, Arkansas "My mother's old owner named Master Sanders. She born somewhere in Tennessee. I heard...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Subject: Ex-slavery [May 11 1938] Person Interviewed: Orleans Finger [TR: In text of interview, Orleana] Negro (Apparently octoroon or quadroon) Addre...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 394 Subject: WILLIAM SMITH Story teller: William Smith Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt WILLIAM SMITH 920 Oberlin Road "My full na...
EX-SLAVE INTERVIEW =FANNIE JONES= 37--12th Street Augusta, Georgia Written By: Emily Powell Augusta, Georgia Edited By: John N. Booth WPA Residencies No. 6 & 7 Sept. 1, 1938. =Fann...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Henrietta Evelina Smith 1714 Pine Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: "I was born in Louisiana in East Felicie Parish near Baton Ro...
JEPTHA CHOICE, 1117 Brashear St., Houston, Texas, was born in slavery, on the plantation of Jezro Choice, about 6 miles south of Henderson, Texas. Jeptha was sent to school with th...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lucindy Allison, Marked Tree, Arkansas With children at Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 61 "Ma was a slave in Arkansas. She said she hel...
Interviewer: S.S. Taylor Person interviewed: Rachel Fairley 1600 Brown St. Little Rock, Ark. Age: 75 Occupation: General Housework [Jan 23 1938] [HW: Mother Stole to Get Food] "My...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: R.B. Anderson Route 4, Box 68 (near Granite) Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 75 [HW: The Brooks-Baxter War] "I was born in Little Rock...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Richard H. McDaniel, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 73 "I was born in Newton County, Mississippi the first year of the surrender. I d...
Project 1885-1 Folklore Spartanburg, Dist. 4 Oct. 25, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage EX-SLAVES STORIES "I live in de house wid my grandniece and her husband. It is a two-room house...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 May 24, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I was born about 1857, and belonged to Marse George Gallman who lived in t...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mrs. W.N. Harriss No. Words: 1363 Subject: Memories of Uncle Jackson Interviewed: John H. Jackson 309 S. Sixth St. Wilmington, N.C. [TR: Date stamp: JU...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Sebert Douglas 610 Catalpa Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 82 "I was born in Lebanon, Kentucky. Gover Hood was my old master....