Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Mary Lee 1308 Texas Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 74 [Date Stamp: MAY 31 1938] "I was born in 1864, March the fourth, the y...
PLANTATION LIFE as viewed by Ex-Slave ALICE GREEN Athens Georgia Written by: Corry Fowler, Athens -- Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens and John N. Booth District Supervisor Federal W...
PLANTATION LIFE Interview with: ALICE GREEN 156 Willow Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Sadie B. Hornsby Athens -- Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens -- Leila Harris Augusta -- and...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves PHYLLIS PETITE Age 83 yrs. Fort Gibson, Okla. I was born in Rusk County, Texas, on a plantation about eight miles east of Belleview. There wasn'...
PLANTATION LIFE as viewed by Ex-Slave CARRIE HUDSON 258 Lyndon Avenue Athens, Georgia. Written by: Sadie B. Hornsby Athens -- Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens -- Leila Harris August...
Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S.C. Date, August 11, 1937 JOHN GLOVER Ex-Slave, 77 Years Timmonsville, S.C. "Born on Rafter Creek bout 20 miles from...
[HW: Dist. 7 Ex-Slave #110] Adella S. Dixon INTERVIEW WITH RHODUS WALTON, EX-SLAVE, Age 84 [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937] Ten years before the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, a son...
Mississippi Federal Writers Slave Autobiographies Smith Hodges, Ex-Slave, Pike County FEC Mrs. W.F. Holmes [FANNY SMITH HODGES Berglundtown, Mississippi] Fanny Smith Hodges lives i...
Ex-Slave Stories Subject: Joseph Leonidas Star, # 133 Quebec Place, Knoxville, Tennessee If the poetic strain in the Dunbar Negroes of the south is an inheritance and not "just a g...
WASH INGRAM, A 93 year old Negro, was born a slave of Capt. Jim Wall, of Richmond, Va. His father, Charley Wall Ingram, ran away and secured work in a gold mine. Later, his mother...
MAY 31 1938 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Betty Harris Brinkley, Arkansas Age: About 45 or 50? "My parents wus both in the Civil War. He was Levi Berthy and...
Interviewer: Beulah Sherwood Hagg Person interviewed: Mrs. Charlotte E. Stephens 1420 West 15th Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 83 I was born right here in Little Rock. My fathe...
450002 Interview of Miss Mary Jane Wilson Portsmouth, Virginia By--Thelma Dunston NEGRO PIONEER TEACHER OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA One of the rooms in the Old Folks Home for Colored i...
=Project 1885 -1-= =District #4= =Spartanburg, S.C.= =June 7, 1937= =FOLK-LORE: EX-SLAVES= "I was born in Spartanburg County, S.C., near Glenn Springs. I can't 'member slavery or d...
JERRY BOYKINS, spry and jolly at the age of 92, lived with his aged wife in their own cabin at 1015 Plum St., Abilene, Texas. He was born a slave to John Thomas Boykin, Troupe Co.,...
[HW: Dist. 7 Ex-Slave #19] Adella S. Dixon District 7 BERRY CLAY OLD SLAVE STORY [MAY 8 1937] Telfair County was the home of some colored people who never were slaves, but hired th...
DORA ROBERTS Dora Roberts was born in 1849 and was a slave of Joseph Maxwell of Liberty County. The latter owned a large number of slaves and plantations in both Liberty and Early...
Grace Monroe Dist. 4 Jefferson County SLAVE STORY OHIO COUNTY EX-SLAVE, MRS. ELLEN CAVE, RELATES HER EXPERIENCES Assistant editor of "The Rising Sun Recorder" furnished the followi...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist 4 July 15, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I was born in Newberry County, South Carolina. Near Indian Creek above Jal...
Former Slave Interview, Special Aug 16, 1937 Butler County, District #2 Middletown MRS. NANCE EAST 809 Seventeenth Ave., Middletown, Ohio "Mammy" East, 809 Seventeenth Ave., Middle...
PLANTATION LIFE AS VIEWED BY EX-SLAVE NICEY KINNEY, Age 86 R.F.D. #3 Athens, Ga. Written by: Miss Grace McCune Athens Edited by: Mrs. Sarah H. Hall Athens and John N. Booth Distric...
Interviewer: Beulah Sherwood Hagg Person interviewed: Aunt Mittie Freeman Aged: 86 Home: 320 Elm St., North Little Rock. In home of granddaughter. [Aug 27 1937] Story by Aunt Mitti...
Project 1885-1 Folklore Spartanburg, Dist. 4 Nov. 29, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "Time is but time, and how is I to know when I was born when everybody kn...
Archie Koritz, Field Worker Federal Writers' Project Porter County--District #1 Valparaiso, Indiana EX-SLAVES REV. WAMBLE [TR: above in handwriting is 'Womble'] 1827 Madison Street...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: William H. Harrison Forrest City, Arkansas Age: Over 100 "I was born March 4, 1832 in Richmond, Virginia. Master Anderson Harr...
Adella S. Dixon District 7 May 8 1937 Bryant Huff Old Slave Story Bryant Huff was the son of Janie and Daniel Huff who were born on neighboring plantations between Camack and Augus...
Maryland Sept. 29, 1937 Rogers REV. SILAS JACKSON, Ex-slave. Reference: Personal interview with Rev. Silas Jackson, ex-slave, at his home, 1630 N. Gilmor St., Baltimore. "I was bor...
Project #1855 Stiles M. Scruggs Columbia, S.C. DANIEL GODDARD EX-SLAVE 74 YEARS OLD. "My name is Daniel Goddard. I was born in Columbia, S.C. Feb. 14, 1863, to slave parents. You k...
Submitted by: William Webb Tuttle District No. 2 Muncie, Indiana SLAVES IN DELAWARE COUNTY ROSA BARBER 812 South Jefferson Muncie, Indiana Rosa Barber was born in slavery on the Fo...
WPA in Ohio Federal Writers' Project Bishop & Isleman Reporter: Bishop [HW: Revised] Topic: Ex-Slaves. Jefferson County, District #5 July 6, 1937 GEORGE JACKSON Ex-Slave, 79 years...