Project #-1655 Mrs. Genevieve W. Chandler Murrells Inlet, S.C. Georgetown County FOLKLORE UNCLE BEN HORRY (Uncle Ben lives in his own cabin with his second wife, Stella. Formerly a...
Project # 2570 Mrs. Genevieve W. Chandler, Murrell's Inlet, S.C. Georgetown county. Ex Slave Story. UNCLE BEN HORRY Uncle Ben and his wife, aunt Stella, live in their two-room, whi...
Project #-1655 Mrs. Genevieve W. Chandler Murrells Inlet, S.C. Georgetown County FOLKLORE Uncle Ben Horry (Reb's time nigger--over 80) (Uncle Ben and visitors) Uncle Ben: (To white...
NAT TURNER Back 'fore the sixties, I can 'member my Mistress, Miss Sara Ann, comin' to de window an' hollerin', "De niggers is arisin'! De niggers is arisin'! De niggers is killin'...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Maggie Stenhouse, (a mile down the railway track), Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 72? "Mama was owned by Master Barton. She lived on...
MAY 11 1938 Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Ida Blackshear Hutchinson 2620 Orange Street, North Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 73 Birth "I was born in 1865 in Alabama...
Maryland [--] 11, 1938 Rogers CAROLINE HAMMOND, A fugitive. Interview at her home, 4710 Falls Road, Baltimore, Md. "I was born in Anne Arundel County near Davidsonville about 3 mil...
THE STORY OF CHARLES CRAWLEY, EX-SLAVE God knows how old I am. All I know is I wuz born 'fore de war. Yes, I wuz a slave an' belonged to a family of Allen's in Luenburg County, cam...
N.C. District: 2 Worker: Travis Jordan No. Words: 700 Subject: MILLIE MARKHAM'S STORY Interviewed: Millie Markham 615 St. Joseph St., Durham, N.C. [TR: Date stamp: JUN 1 1937] EX-S...
450005 Interview of Mrs. Della Harris 2 E. Byrne Street Petersburg, Virginia By--Susie Byrd February 5, 1937 "I don't know just how old I is. Muma sent me to private school wid whi...
"I don't know just how old I is. Muma sent me to private school wid white chillun fo' one week. I was 13 years old at de time uh Lee's surrender. I belong to Peter or Billy Buck Tu...
TEMPIE CUMMINS was born at Brookeland, Texas, sometime before the Civil War, but does not know her exact age. William Neyland owned Tempie and her parents. She now lives alone in a...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320010] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 976 Subject: ADDY GILL Story Teller: Addy Gill Editor: G. L. Andrews [TR: Date Stamp "SEP 10 1937"] ADDY GILL 1614...
N. C. District: No. 3 [320122] Worker: Daisy Whaley Subject: Cy Hart Ex-slave, 78 years. Durham, N. C. [HW: 48] [TR: Date Stamp: "AUG 6 1937"] CY HART, 78 Yrs. Ex-Slave. Ephram Har...
MOTHER ANNE CLARK, 112 years old, lives at 3602 Alameda Ave., El Paso, Texas. She is too crippled to walk, but a smile lights up the tired old eyes that still see to sew without gl...
Ah ain't knowd, 'xactly, how ol' ah is, but ah bawn 'fo' de war. Bawn ovuh yonder at Seaview, on ol' Masser Scott's plantation. Tain't fur f'om here. Yes, reckon ah 'bout six yeah...
450006 Interview of Mrs. Candis Goodwin Aged 80 Cape Charles, Virginia Ah ain't knowd, 'xactly, how ol' ah is, but ah bawn 'fo' de war. Bawn ovuh yonder at Seaview, on ol' Masser S...
=Project 1885-1= =FOLKLORE= =Spartanburg Dist. 4= =May 25, 1937= =Edited by:= =Elmer Turnage= =SLAVERY REMINISCENCES= "I was born in the town of Newberry, S.C. I do not remember sl...
=Project 1885-1= =Folklore= =Spartanburg, Dist. 4= =Oct. 21, 1937= =Edited by:= =Elmer Turnage= =STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES= "I don't own no house. I live in a rented house. Yes, I wor...
Maryland Dec. 16, 1937 Rogers THOMAS FOOTE'S STORY, A free Negro. Reference: Personal interview with Thomas Foote, at his home, Cockeysville, Md. "My mother's name was Eliza Foote...
Interviewer: S.S. Taylor Person interviewed: Mary Estes Peters, 3115 W. 17th Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 78 Biographical Mary Estes Peters was born a slave January 30, 1860...
Project, 1885-1 Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S.C. Date, June 28, 1937 HECTOR GODBOLD Ex-Slave, 87 Years "What you gwine do wid me? I sho been here in slavery time. T...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lee Guidon Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 89 "Yes maam I sho was in the Cibil War. I plowed all day and me and my sister helped take...
N.C. District: Asheville Worker: Marjorie Jones No. Words: 2,300 Subject: Interview with Fannie Moore, Ex-slave. Story teller: Fannie Moore Editor: Marjorie Jones Date: September 2...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S.C. CORNELIUS HOLMES EX-SLAVE 82 YEARS OLD. Cornelius Holmes lives with his wife, Nancy, in a two-room annex to the house that his son, David,...
By Miss Nancy Woodburn Watkins [320227] Rockingham County Madison, North Carolina [TR: No. Words: 1,165] Ex-Slave Biography--Charles Lee Dalton, 93. In July, 1934, the census taker...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 760 Subject: HENRY JAMES TRENTHAM Person Interviewed: Henry James Trentham Editor: G.L. Andrews HENRY JAMES TRENTHAM Raleigh...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 1414 Subject: RIA SORRELL Person Interviewed: Ria Sorrell Editor: G.L. Andrews [TR: Date stamp: AUG 23 1937] RIA SORRELL 97...
450008 [HW: Jones, Albert] Interview of Ex-slave and Civil War Veteran Portsmouth, Virginia By--Thelma Dunston January 8, 1937 Civil War Veteran of Portsmouth, Virginia On the outs...
CATO CARTER was born in 1836 or 1837, near Pineapple, Wilcox County, Alabama, a slave of the Carter family. He and his wife live at 3429 Booth St., Dallas, Texas. "I'm home today '...