Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Taylor Jackson, Edmondson, Arkansas Age: 88? [Date Stamp: MAY 11 1938] "I was born two miles from Baltimore, Maryland. I was a...
Garrard County. Ex-Slave Stories. (Eliza Ison) Interview with Ex-Slave Uncle Wes Woods: My first visit to uncle Wes Wood, and his wife Aunt Lizzie Wood, found them in their own com...
Dibble, Fred, P.W., Beehler, Rheba, P.W., Beaumont, Jefferson, Dist. #3. ANN HAWTHORNE, Beaumont, Tex., was clad in a white dress which was protected by a faded blue checked apron....
[HW: Dist. 6] Mary A. Crawford Re-Search Worker LEWIS OGLETREE--Ex-Slave 501 E. Tinsley Street Griffin, Georgia August 21, 1936 [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937] [TR: Numerous handwritten c...
[HW: Dist. 6 Ex slave 100] Mary A. Crawford Re-search Worker CHARLIE TYE SMITH, Ex-slave East Solomon Avenue, Griffin, Georgia September 16, 1936 [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937] Charlie T...
450003 Interview of Mr. Charles Crawley, Ex-slave By--Susie Byrd--Petersburg, Virginia Date--February 20, 1937 THE STORY OF CHARLES CRAWLEY, EX-SLAVE God knows how old I am. All I...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =JOSEPHINE STEWART= =EX-SLAVE 85 YEARS OLD.= Phinie Stewart, as she is known in the community where she lives, is a small, black negr...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers Unit) Viola B. Muse, Field Worker Jacksonville, Fla. January 11, 1937 ANNA SCOTT AN EX-SLAVE WHO WENT TO AFRICA Anna Scott,...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves BOB MAYNARD, AGE 79 23 East Choctaw Weleetka, Oklahoma. I was born near what is now Marlin, Texas, Falls County. My father was Robert Maynard an...
Garrard County. Ex-Slave Stories. (Eliza Ison) [HW: Ky 9] Interview with Dan Bogie: Uncle Dan tells me "he was born May 5, 1858 at the Abe Wheeler place near Spoonsville, now known...
INTERVIEW JULIA CASEY 811 9th Avenue, So. Nashville, Tennessee I wuz bawn in West Tennessee en wuz six y'ars ole w'en war broke out. Mah Missis wuz Miss Jennie McCullough en she ma...
OCT 18 19-- Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Oliver Hill 1101 Kentucky Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 94 Oliver Hill is ninety-four years old, erect, walks b...
PREELY COLEMAN was born in 1852 on the Souba farm, near New Berry, South Carolina, but he and his mother were sold and brought to Texas when Preely was a month old. They settled ne...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Alex Murdock, Edmondson, Arkansas Age: 65 "My owner or least my folks was owned by Dr. [HW: 'Murder'] (Murdock). He had a big...
Interviewer: Mrs. Carol Graham Person interviewed: Millie Evans Age: Yo' say yo' is in'rested in the lives of the slaves? Well, Miss, I is one of 'em. Was born in 1849 but I don' k...
Project #1555 W.W. Dixon Winnsboro, S.C. ABE HARRIS EX-SLAVE 74 YEARS OLD. Abe Harris lives about nine miles southwest of the town of Winnsboro, South Carolina. His home is a two-r...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320225] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 775 Subject: ROBERT HINTON Story Teller: Robert Hinton Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] ROBERT HINTO...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Ben Johnson Near Holly Grove and Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 73 "My master was Wort Garland. My papa's master was Steve Johnson....
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Ben Johnson (deaf), Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 84 Black "Steve Johnson was my owner. Way he come by me was dat he married in the...
Mississippi Federal Writers Slave Autobiographies [REV. JAMES SINGLETON Simpson, Mississippi] "My name's James Singleton. I'se a Baptist preacher. I was born in 1856, but I doan kn...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. ANNE BROOME EX-SLAVE 87 YEARS OLD. "Does you recollect de Galloway place just dis side of White Oak? Well dere's where I was born. When?...
Story and Photo by Frank M. Smith Ex-Slaves Mahoning County, Dist. #5 Youngstown, Ohio The Story of MRS. ANGELINE LESTER, of Youngstown, Ohio. Mrs. Angeline Lester lives at 836 Wes...
Project 1885-1 Folklore Spartanburg, Dist. 4 Feb. 7, 1938 Edited by: Elmer Turnage REMINISCENCES: THE RED SHIRTS [~HW: Boy~] "The Red Shirts had a big parade and barbecue in Sparta...
SUBJECT--EX-SLAVE STORIES Aunt Mollie Moss # 88- Auburn Street, Knoxville, Tennessee There is no street sign or a number on any of the ramshackled frame cottages that seemingly lea...
DONAVILLE BROUSSARD, a polished gentleman of his race, was the son of a mulatto slave of Emilier Caramouche. He was born in 1850, but appears vigorous. Light skinned, with blue eye...
Mississippi Federal Writers Slave Autobiographies [TOM WILSON near New Zion Church, Mississippi] "My name is Tom Wilson an' I'se eighty fo' years old. My mammy was name Ca'line an'...
CLAY CO. (Pearl House) Sophia Word: The following story of slave days is the exact words of one who had the bitter experience of slavery. Sophia Word, who is now ninety-nine years...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 1060 Subject: ROBERTA MANSON Person Interviewed: Roberta Manson Editor: G.L. Andrews ROBERTA MANSON 317 N. Haywood Street, R...
ANN J. EDWARDS, 81, was born a slave of John Cook, of Arlington County, Virginia. He manumitted his slaves in 1857. Four years later Ann was adopted by Richard H. Cain, a colored p...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 848 Subject: WILLIAM SYKES Person Interviewed: William Sykes Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt WILLIAM SYKES Ex-Slave Story An interv...