Project #-1655 Martha S. Pinckney Charleston, S.C. FOLKLORE AMOS GADSDEN "My name is Amos Gadsden, not Gadson, like some call it--the same old name Gadsden"--he added, with a frien...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves ALICE ALEXANDER Age 88 yrs. Oklahoma City, Okla. I was 88 years old the 15th of March. I was born in 1849, at Jackson Parish, Louisiana. My moth...
ANDY ANDERSON, 94, was born a slave of Jack Haley, who owned a plantation in Williamson Co., Texas. During the Civil War, Andy was sold to W.T. House, of Blanco County, who in less...
CHRIS FRANKLIN, 82, was born a slave of Judge Robert J. Looney, in Bossier Parish, Louisiana. Chris now lives in Beaumont, Texas, and supports himself by gardening and yard work. H...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320130] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 381 Subject: THE BLACKSMITH Person Interviewed: Alonzo Haywood Editor: G. L. Andrews [TR: Date Stamp "AUG--1937"] TH...
ELIGE DAVISON was born in Richmond, Virginia, a slave of George Davison. Elige worked in the field for some time before he was freed, but does not know his age. He lives with one o...
Project 1885-1 Folklore Spartanburg, Dist. 4 Nov. 30, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES (John Davenport) "My family belonged in slavery time to old Marse Pierce...
Berry Smith, Ex-slave, Scott County FEC W.B. Allison Rewrite, Pauline Loveless Edited, Clara E. Stokes BERRY SMITH Forest, Mississippi "Uncle Berry" Smith is five feet two or three...
THE AMERICAN GUIDE TOPEKA, KANSAS EX SLAVE STORY HUTCHINSON, KANSAS INTERVIEWER: E. Jean Foote Belle Williams was born in slavery about the year 1850 or 1851. Her mother's name was...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Alice Johnson 601 W. Eighth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 77 "You want to know what they did in slavery times! They were doin...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves 10-13-37 [Date stamp: NOV 5 1937] CHANEY RICHARDSON Age 90 years Fort Gibson, Okla. I was born in the old Caney settlement southeast of Tahlequa...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Helen Odom and mother, Sarah Odom Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 30? "Great-grandmother was part African, Indian, and Caucasian. She ha...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves GEORGE KYE Age 110 yrs. Fort Gibson, Okla. I was born in Arkansas under Mr. Abraham Stover, on a big farm about twenty miles north of Van Buren....
Wilbur Ammon, Editor George Conn, Writer C.R. McLean, District Supervisor June 16, 1937 Folklore Summit County, District #9 SARAH MANN Mrs. Mann places her birth sometime in 1861 d...
JAMES BOYD was born in Phantom Valley, Indian Territory, in an Indian hut. A man named Sanford Wooldrige stole him and brought him to Texas, somewhere near Waco. James does not kno...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =INTERVIEW WITH REUBEN ROSBOROUGH, RIDGEWAY, S.C.=, =EX-SLAVE--82 YEARS, 3 MONTHS OLD= "No sir, I can 'member nothin' 'bout de State...
=Project #1655= =Stiles M. Scruggs= =Columbia, S.C.= =DANIEL WARING= =EX-SLAVE 88 YEARS OLD.= "I was born in Fairfield County, South Carolina, in 1849, and my parents, Tobias and B...
ZEK BROWN, 80, was born a slave of Green Brown, owner of six slave families, in Warren County, Tennessee. Zek came to Texas in 1868, with Sam Bragg. Zek now lives at 407 W. Bluff S...
(Given by himself as an oral account during an interview between himself and writer, December 27, 1936.) Claude W. Anderson--Hampton, Virginia "Come in, son. Have a seat, who are y...
Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #6 Marion County Anna Pritchett 1200 Kentucky Avenue FOLKLORE MRS. BELLE BUTLER--DAUGHTER [of Chaney Mayer] 829 North Capitol Avenue...
ELLEN BETTS, 118 N. Live Oak St., Houston, Texas, is 84. All of her people and their masters came from Virginia and settled in Louisiana about 1853. Her grandparents belonged to th...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ky (Hezekiah) Steel West Fifth Avenue (rear), Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85 Occupation: Yard man "What is it you want to know? W...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mary Tabon, Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 67 "Pa was sold twice to my knowing. He was sold to McCoy, then to Alexander. He was V...
Maryland Sept. 7, 1937 Rogers RICHARD MACKS, Ex-slave. Reference: Personal interview with Richard Macks, ex-slave, at his home, 541 W. Biddle St., Baltimore. "I was born in Charles...
Interviewer: Watt McKinney Person Interviewed: D. Davis R.F.D., six miles north of Marvell, Arkansas Age: 85 Uncle D. Davis, an ex-slave, 85 years of age lives some miles north of...
By Miss Nancy Watkins, volunteer Madison, North Carolina Story of Ex-Slave, Porter Scales [TR: Date stamp: JUN 1 1937] Monday, December 19, 1933, the faithful colored friends of Un...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves OCTAVIA GEORGE Age 85 yrs. Oklahoma City, Okla. I was born in Mansieur, Louisiana, 1852, Avoir Parish. I am the daughter of Alfred and Clementin...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =ALECK WOODWARD,= =EX-SLAVE--83 YEARS.= "You knows de Simonton place, Mr. Wood? Well, dats just where I was born back yonder befo' de...
=Code No.= =Project, 1885-(1)= =Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis= =Place, Marion, S.C.= =Date, June 11, 1937= =MOM GENIA WOODBERRY= =Ex-Slave, 89 years= "Glad to see yunnah. Who dese u...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Henry Kirk Miller [HW: Same as H.K. Miller] 1513 State Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age 87 [HW: 86] "I am eighty-six years old-ei...