Ex-Slave #18 INTERVIEW WITH (MRS.) MARIAH CALLAWAY EX-SLAVE [TR: A significant portion of this interview was repeated in typescript; where there was a discrepancy, the clearer vers...
Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: Mose Moss, Russellville, Arkansas Age: 65 "Mose Moss is my name, suh, and I was born in 1875 in Yell County. My father was born...
PAULINE GRICE, 81, was born a slave of John Blackshier, who owned her mother, about 150 slaves, 50 slave children, and a large plantation near Atlanta, Georgia. Pauline married Nav...
SARAH FORD, whose age is problematical, but who says, "I's been here for a long time," lives in a small cottage at 3151 Clay St., Houston, Texas. Born on the Kit Patton plantation...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Augustus Robinson 2500 W. Tenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born in Calhoun County, Arkansas in 1860, January 15t...
BEN KINCHLOW, 91, was the son of Lizaer Moore, a half-white slave owned by Sandy Moore, Wharton Co., and Lad Kinchlow, a white man. When Ben was one year old his mother was freed a...
Interviewer: S. S. Taylor Person interviewed: John Hunter 3200 W. 17th Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 74 Biographical John Hunter claims to be only seventy-four years old, but...
FRANCIS BLACK was born at Grand Bluff, Mississippi, about 1850, on the Jim Carlton plantation. When five years old, she was stolen and taken to the slave market in New Orleans. Fai...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person Interviewed: Laura Thornton 1215 W. Twenty-Fourth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 105? "My native home is Alabama. I was born not far from M...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Alfred Peters, 1518 Bell Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born seven miles from Camden. "I was 'leven months old whe...
El Dorado District FOLKLORE SUBJECTS [HW: Customs] Name of Interviewer: Pernella Anderson Subject: Customs--Slavery Days [Nov 30 1936] This information given by: Alice Dixon Place...
Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #6 Marion County Anna Pritchett 1200 Kentucky Avenue FOLKLORE MRS. SARAH COLBERT--EX-SLAVE 1505 North Capitol Avenue, Indianapolis,...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Andrew Smith R.F.D., Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 73 "I was born after the surrender at Oxford, Mississippi. We belong to Maste...
[TR: No Header Page] SARAH GUDGER [320005] Ex-slave, 121 years Investigation of the almost incredible claim of Aunt Sarah Gudger, ex-slave living in Asheville, that she was born on...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp AUG 19 1937] ALICE DOUGLASS Age 77 yrs. Oklahoma City, Okla. I was born December 22, 1860 in Sumner County, Tennessee. My mother--I...
PAULINE JOHNSON and FELICE BOUDREAUX, sisters, were once slaves on the plantation of Dermat Martine, near Opelousas, Louisiana. As their owners were French, they are more inclined...
JOHN ELLIS, was born June 26, 1852, a slave of the Ellis family in Johnson County near Cleburne, Texas. He remained with his white folks and was paid by the month for his labor for...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person Interviewed: Robert Farmer 1612 Battery Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 84 [HW: Tale of a "Nigger Ruler"] "I was born in North Carolina. I c...
PLANTATION LIFE BENNY DILLARD, Age 80 Cor. Broad and Derby Streets Athens, Ga. Written by: Grace McCune [HW: (white)] Athens Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens and John N. Booth Distr...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Emma Barr, Madison, Arkansas Age: 65 "My parents belong to two people. Mama was born in Mississippi I think and papa come from...
Project #1655 Stiles M. Scruggs Columbia, S.C. JOHN FRANKLIN EX-SLAVE 84 YEARS OLD. "I is the son of John Franklin and Susan Bobo Franklin. I was born August 10th, 1853 in Spartanb...
=Project 1655= =Genevieve W. Chandler= =Georgetown County, S.C.= =FOLKLORE= =UNCLE SABE RUTLEDGE= =(EX-SLAVE STORY)= "They call him Rogerick Rutledge for shortness. My Grandpa REAL...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves 10-19-38 1,534 words TOM W. WOODS Age 83. Alderson, Okla. Lady, if de nigger hadn't been set free dis country wouldn't ever been what it is now!...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. CALEB CRAIG EX SLAVE 86 YEARS OLD. Caleb Craig lives in a four-room house, with a hall, eight feet wide, through the center and a firepla...
INTERVIEW EMMA GRISHAM 1118 Jefferson St. Nashville, Tennessee "I wuz bawn in Nashville. I'se up in 90 y'ars, but I tell dem I'se still young. I lived on Gallatin Pike long 'fore d...
Project #-1655 Mrs. Genevieve W. Chandler Murrells Inlet, S. C. Georgetown County EX-SLAVE STORY (Verbatim) "My old man can 'member things and tell you things and he word carry. We...
Ex-Slave Stories District #5 Vanderburgh County Lauana Creel MEMORIES OF SLAVERY AND THE LIFE STORY OF AMY ELIZABETH PATTERSON The slave mart, separation from a dearly beloved moth...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: A.J. Mitchell 419 E. 11th Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 Occupation: Garbage hauler "I was 'bout seven when they surrende...
Project #1655 Stiles M. Scruggs Columbia, S.C. ANSON HARP EX-SLAVE 87 YEARS OLD. Anson Harp, eighty-seven years old, lives out in the country on Route #3. He still works on the few...
Wm. R. Mays Dist. 4 Johnson County, Ind. July 29, 1937 SLAVERY DAYS OF MANDY COOPER OF LINCOLN COUNTY, KENTUCKY FRANK COOPER 715 Ott St., Franklin, Ind. Frank Cooper, an aged color...