#715 Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Hatty Haskell 1416 W. Pullen, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85 "Yes'm, I reckon I was about twelve when the Civil War ended. O...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Jane Osbrook 602 E. 21st Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 90 "Yes ma'm, I was livin' in slavery days. I was borned in Arkansas...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Louvenia Huff Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 64 "I was born third year after the surrender. There was thirteen children in my family...
MAGGIE JACKSON was born a slave of the Sam Oliver family, in Cass Co., Texas, near Douglasville. She is about 80 years old and her memory is not very good, so her story gives few d...
#737 Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Marie E. Hervey 1520 Pulaski Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 62 "I have heard my father and mother talk over the War so ma...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertaon Person interviewed: Will Burks, Sr. Pine City, Ark.--5 mi. from Holly Grove Age: 75 "My parents names was Katherine Hill and Bill Burks. They had...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Ella Glespie Brassfield, Arkansas Age: 71 "I was born the third year after the surrender. I was born in Okolona, Mississippi....
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 June 16, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I was born in old Abbeville County, S.C. about 1861; was reared in what i...
Project #1655 Everett R. Pierce Columbia, S.C. INTERVIEW WITH EX-SLAVE MARGARET HUGHES, 82 YEARS. "Missy, I likes to talk to de white folks, I gits awful lonesome for my massa and...
Interviewer: R.S. Taylor Person Interviewed: Uncle William Baltimore Resident: Route #1, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Jefferson County. Age: 103. "You wants to know how old I is? I'se liv...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: William Brown 409 W. Twenty-Fifth Street North Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 78 [HW: U.S. Dictatorship Predicted] "I was born in Arka...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: William Brown, Hazen, Arkansas Age: 67 I was born in Virginia but I was born after slavery. I heard my folks talk a heap about...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 1083 Subject: CAROLINE RICHARDSON Person Interviewed: Caroline Richardson Editor: G.L. Andrews [TR: Date stamp: SEP 10 1937] [...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Diana Alexander, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 74 "I was born in Mississippi close to Bihalia. Our owner was Myers(?) Bogan. He had...
=Project 1885-1= =FOLKLORE= =Spartanburg Dist. 4= =May 24, 1937= =Edited by:= =Elmer Turnage= =STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES= "I was born near Broad River in de Dutch Fork of Newberry Cou...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 1138 Subject: CHANA LITTLEJOHN Person Interviewed: Chana Littlejohn Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date stamp: JUN 26 1937]...
=Project 1885-1= =FOLKLORE= =Spartanburg Dist. 4= =June 15, 1937= =Edited by:= =Elmer Turnage= =STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES= "I am daughter of Billy Robertson and Louisa Robertson; was...
Project 1655 Genevieve W. Chandler Georgetown County, S.C. FOLKLORE (VERBATIM) MISS GEORGIE AT WOODLAND EX-SLAVE STORY "He was a full-blooded man--the Cap'n. Didn't disgrace. He pu...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg, Dist. 4: Sept. 8, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES OF EX-SLAVES "Miss Alice Cannon give me my age from de foundation of my mother. Dey bee...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Wade Dudley, Moro, Ark. Age: 73 "Bill Kidd and Miss Nancy Kidd owned my parents. I was born close to Okalona, Chickasha County...
=Project 1885-1= =FOLKLORE= =Spartanburg Dist. 4= =Sept. 22, 1937= =Edited by:= =Elmer Turnage= =STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES= "I was born in Newberry County near Cannon's Creek section...
=Code No.= =Project, 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date. May 24, 1937= =MOM JESSIE SPARROW= =Ex-Slave, 83 years.= "I dunno, child, I don' 'member...
=Code No.= =Project, 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date, May 17, 1937= =No. Words = =Reduced from words= =Rewritten by= == =MOM JESSIE SPARROW= =E...
Interviewer: Carol Graham Person Interviewed: Pinkie Howard (Add) El Dorado, Ark. Age: ? "Mornin', honey! Here you is to see Aunt Pinkie again. What did you bring me? Didn't you br...
=S-260-264-N= =Project: #1885= =Augustus Ladson= =Charleston, S.C.= =EXPERIENCES OF AN EX-SLAVE ON WARDMALAW ISLAND= =Massa Wus Kind to Slaves= Prince Smith, a man who is said to b...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Cora Taylor Frances H. Miner, Editor Miami, Florida RIVANA BOYNTON [TR: also reported as Riviana.] 1. Where, and abou...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 631 Subject: JANE ANNE PRIVETTE UPPERMAN Person Interviewed: Jane Anne Privette Upperman Editor: G.L. Andrews [TR: Date stam...
JANE SMITH HILL HARMON of WASHINGTON-WILKES by Minnie Branham Stonestreet Washington-Wilkes Georgia JANE SMITH HILL HARMON of WASHINGTON-WILKES A comical little old black woman wit...
=Code No.= =Project, 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date, November 5, 1937= =JULIA WOODBERRY= =Ex-Slave, Age = "Well, I can speak bout what I used...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Charlie McClendon 708 E. Fourth Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 77 "I don't know exactly how old I am. I was six or seven whe...