Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Molly Horn Holly Grove, Arkansas Age: 77 "My ma and pa belong to the same white folks. I was born in North Carolina. Ma and pa...
W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. THOMAS DIXON EX-SLAVE 75 YEARS OLD. Tom Dixon, a mulatto, is a superannuated minister of the Gospel. He lives in Winnsboro, S. C., at the corner of Mou...
[TR: date stamp MAY 8 1937] Life Story as Told by Aunt Easter Jackson Ex-Slave It was during the height of slavery days that Frances Wilkerson and one child came to make their home...
SILVIA KING, French Negress of Marlin, Texas, does not know her age, but says that she was born in Morocco. She was stolen from her husband and three children, brought to the Unite...
SUBJECT--EX-SLAVE STORIES Andrew Moss #88 Auburn Streets Knoxville, Tennessee "One ting dat's all wrong wid dis world today," according to Andrew Moss, aged negro, as he sits throu...
[HW: Dist-2 Ex Slave #105] Alberta Minor Re-search Worker FOLKLORE EX-SLAVE--IKE THOMAS Heidt Bridges Farm near Rio Georgia Interviewed September 4, 1936 [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937] [...
ALICE HOUSTON, pioneer nurse and midwife on whom many San Angeloans have relied for years, was born October 22, 1859. She was a slave of Judge Jim Watkins on his small plantation i...
OLIVIER BLANCHARD, 95 years old, was a slave of Clairville La San, who owned a large plantation in Martinville Parish, Louisiana. His father was a Frenchman and Olivier speaks rath...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Ambus Gray R.F.D. #1. Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 80 "I was ten year old when the Civil War come on. I was born Tallapoosy County, A...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves BETTY FOREMAN CHESSIER Age 94 years Oklahoma City, Okla. I was born July 11, 1843 in Raleigh, N. C. My mother was named Melinda Manley, the slav...
Sam McAllum, Ex-slave, Lauderdale County FEC Marjorie Woods Austin Rewrite, Pauline Loveless Edited, Clara E. Stokes SAM McALLUM Meridian, Mississippi To those familiar with the hi...
[HW: Dist. 1 Ex-Slave 102] SUBJECT: EMELINE STEPNEY, A DAUGHTER OF SLAVERY DISTRICT: W.P.A. NO. 1 RESEARCH WORKER: JOSEPH E. JAFFEE EDITOR: JOHN N. BOOTH SUPERVISOR: JOSEPH E. JAFF...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves 10-19-1938 1,428 words PHOEBE BANKS Age 78 Muskogee, Oklahoma. In 1860, there was a little Creek Indian town of Sodom on the north bank of the A...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320183] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 660 Subject: AN EX-SLAVE STORY Story Teller: Sarah Harris Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [HW: Good points] [TR: Date Sta...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 326 Subject: Ex-slave recollections Person Interviewed: Emma Stone Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date stamp: JUN 7 1937] Ex-...
Mary A. Crawford Re-search Worker Laura Hood Ex-Slave Laura was born in Griffin December 23, 1850 on Mr. Henry Bank's place. Her mother, Sylvia Banks (called "Cely Ann" by the dark...
CLARA BRIM, slave of William Lyons of Branch, Louisiana, now lives in Beaumont, Texas. The town of Branch was known in slave days as Plaquemine Bouley. Clara estimates her age to b...
FLOYD CO. (John I. Sturgill) Charlie Richmond: We are unable to interview ex-slaves in Floyd County, so far as anyone we are able to contact knows, there are no living ex-slaves in...
INTERVIEW ANDY ODELL 1313 Pearl Street Nashville, Tennessee "I wuz bawn east ob Spring Hill, Tennessee. I dunno in w'at y'ar, but I wuz a ful' grown man w'en I wuz freed. (This wil...
SAM KILGORE, 92, was born a slave of John Peacock, of Williams County, Tennessee, who owned one of the largest plantations in the south. When he was eight years old, Sam accompanie...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Viola B. Muse, Field Worker Jacksonville, Florida December 3, 1936 "FATHER" CHARLES COATES "Father" Charles Coates, a...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No Words: 273 Subject: A SLAVERY STORY Person Interviewed: Martha Organ Date of Interview: May 18, 1937 Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: D...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Pearl Randolph, Field Worker John A. Simms, Editor Mulberry, Florida October 8, 1936 SAM AND LOUISA EVERETT Sam and L...
A STORY OF SLAVERY AS TOLD BY EMMALINE HEARD--EX-SLAVE A paper submitted by Minnie B. Ross Revision of original copy and typing by J.C.Russell 1-26-37 Story of slavery by ex-slave...
MARY GLADDY, EX-SLAVE Place of birth: On the Holt plantation, in Muscogee County, near Columbus, Georgia. Date of birth: About 1853. Present residence: In rear of 806-1/2 - 6th Ave...
THE STORY OF CHUCK, AS TOLD BY MARY GLADDY. Chuck was a very intelligent and industrious slave, but so religious that he annoyed his master by doing so much praying, chanting, and...
Project 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S.C. Date, December 26, 1937 MOM RYER EMMANUEL EX-SLAVE, AGE 78 "Well, how you feelin dis mornin, honey? I had tell Mis...
Code No. Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S.C. Date, January 7, 1938 MOM RYER EMMANUEL EX-SLAVE, 78 YEARS "Good evenin, child. How you is? How Miss Sue...
Code No. Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S.C. Date, December 16, 1937 MOM RYER EMMANUEL EX-SLAVE, AGE 78 "Oh, my Lord, child, I ain' know nothin bout...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves ELIZA EVANS Age 87 McAlester, Okla. I sho' remember de days when I was a slave and belonged to de best old Master what ever was, Mr. John Mixon....