Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Parson interviewed: Jeff Burgess, Clarendon, Arkansas Age: Born in 1664 or 1865, forgot which "I was born in Granville, Texas. My master was Strat...
=Code No.= =Project No. 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date, September 7, 1937= =MOM JESSIE SPARROW= =Ex-Slave, 83 Years= =Marion, S.C.= "No, honey...
ORELIA ALEXIE FRANKS was born on the plantation of Valerian Martin, near Opelousas, Louisiana. She does not know her age, but thinks she is near ninety. Her voice has the musical a...
AUNT PINKIE KELLY, whose age is a matter of conjecture, but who says she was "growed up when sot free," was born on a plantation in Brazoria Co., owned by Greenville McNeel, and st...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Spencer Barnett (blind), Holly Grove, Ark. Age: 81 "I was born April 30, 1856. It was wrote in a old Bible. I am 81 years old....
=Code No.= =Project, 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date, November 16, 1937= =JULIA WOODBERRY= =Ex-Slave, Age = "No, mam, I ain' thought bout nothi...
=Code No.= =Project, 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date, December 7, 1937= =MOM JESSIE SPARROW= =Ex-Slave, 83 Years= "No, I ain' cold. I settin in...
=Code No.= =Project, 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date, October 11, 1937= =MOM JESSIE SPARROW= =Ex-Slave, 83 Years= "Good morning, honey, I ain'...
=Code No.= =Project, 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date, November 30, 1937= =JULIA WOODBERRY= =Ex-Slave, Age= "Oh, my God a mercy, child, dat been...
=Code No.= =Project, 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date, November 23, 1937= =JULIA WOODBERRY= =Ex-Slave, Age = "Come in, child. Dis ain' nobody ta...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 465 Subject: SARAH ANN SMITH Person Interviewed: Sarah Ann Smith Editor: G.L. Andrews [TR: Date stamp: AUG ? 1937] SARAH ANN S...
Code No. Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S.C. Date, October 26, 1937 No. ---- Reduced from ---- words Rewritten by ---- MOM HESTER HUNTER Ex-Slave, 85...
Interviewer: Mary D. Hudgins Person interviewed: Tom Robinson Aged: 88 Home: Lives with his son on outskirts of Hot Springs As I entered Goldstein Grade school for colored I passed...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: W.L. Pollacks Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 68 "I was born in Shelby County Tennessee. My folks all come from Richmond, Virginia. Th...
Project 1886-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 June 8, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I was born, March 10, 1848, on Little River in Newberry county, S. C. My m...
=Project 1885-1= =FOLKLORE= =Spartanburg--Dist. 4= =May 18, 1937= =Edited by:= =Elmer Turnage= =STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES= "Aunt" Nina Scot sat on her front porch. She was drinking so...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 471 Subject: AUNT PLAZ Source: Plaz Williams Editor: Geo. L. Andrews AUNT PLAZ An interview with Plaz Williams of Four Oaks wh...
Interviewer: Pernella M. Anderson Person interviewed: Sarah Douglas Route 2, Box 19-A, El Dorado, Arkansas Age: 82? [TR: The Library of Congress photo archive notes "'Tom' written...
Interviewer: Carol Graham Subject: Ex-slaves Information given by: Sarah Douglas, El Dorado, Arkansas Mornin' honey. I thought you wuz comin' back tuh see me ergin las' summer an'...
O.W. Green, son of Frank and of Mary Ann Marks, was born in slavery at Bradly Co., Arkansas, June 26, 1859. His owners, the Mobley family, owned a large plantation and two or three...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Olivia Morgan Hazen, Ark. Age: 62 "I am 62 years old. I was born in Lafayette County close to New Lewisville. I heard mama say...
Code No. ---- Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, September 10, 1937 No. Words ---- Reduced from ---- words Rewritten by ---- MOM SARA BROWN E...
Code No. ---- Project. 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, July 8, 1937 No. Words ---- Reduced From ---- words Rewritten by ---- MOM SARA BROWN Ex-Slav...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 614 Subject: EX-SLAVE STORY Story teller: Tom Wilcox Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date stamp: JUN 1 1937] [HW: Has two song...
=Project 1885-1= =Folk Lore= =District No. 4.= =May 28, 1937.= =Edited by:= =J.J. Murray.= =STORIES OF EX-SLAVES= Seated on the front steps of his house, holding a walking cane and...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Reuben Jones Ezell Quarters, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85 "Well, I'm one of em. I can tell you bout it from now till sundown. "...
CARTER J. JACKSON, 85, was born in Montgomery, Alabama, a slave of Parson Dick Rogers. In 1863 the Rogers family brought Carter to Texas and he worked for them as a slave until fou...
Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #6 Marion County Anna Pritchett 1200 Kentucky Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana FOLKLORE MRS. MITTIE BLAKELEY--EX-SLAVE 2055 Columbia Av...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =MANDA WALKER= =EX-SLAVE 80 YEARS OLD.= Manda Walker lives with her son-in-law, Albert Cooper, in a three-room frame cottage in Winns...
Ex-Slave Stories 5th District Vandenburgh County Lauana Creel SLAVE STORY JOSEPH WILLIAM CARTER This information was gained through an interview with Joseph William Carter and seve...