ARMSTEAD BARRETT, born in 1847, was a slave of Stafford Barrett, who lived in Huntsville, Texas. He is the husband of Harriett Barrett. Armstead has a very poor memory and can tell...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =BENJAMIN RUSSELL= =EX-SLAVE 88 YEARS.= "I was born fourteen miles north of Chester, S.C. the property of Mrs. Rebecca Nance. After e...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT The American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Cora N. Taylor Frances H. Miner, Editor Miami, Florida May 14, 1937 SALENA TASWELL Salena Taswell, 364 NW 8th St....
WPA in Ohio Federal Writers' Project Topic: Ex-Slavery Jefferson Co, District #2 FLEMING CLARK Ex-Slave, 74+ in years My father's name wuz Fleming Clark and my mother's name wuz Em...
[HW: Dist 1 Ex-Slave #107] JANE MICKENS TOOMBS OF WASHINGTON-WILKES Age approx. 82 by Minnie Branham Stonestreet Washington-Wilkes GEORGIA [Date Stamp: JAN 26 1937] [Date Stamp: MA...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Fanny Finney, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 74 plus "I was born in Marshall County, Mississippi. Born during slavery. I b'long to Ma...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Pearl Randolph, Field Worker Madison, Florida November 24, 1936 DUNCAN GAINES Duncan Gaines, the son of George and Ma...
MAY 31 1938 Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Elijah Henry Hopkins 13081/2 Ringo Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 81 "My father's master was old Tom Willingham, a...
Ex-Slave Stories District #5 Vanderburgh County Lauana Creel A SLAVE, AMBASSADOR AND CITY DOCTOR [DR. GEORGE WASHINGTON BUCKNER] This paper was prepared after several interviews ha...
Project 1885-1 Folklore Spartanburg, Dist. 4 Dec. 1, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage [~HW: (Dorroh~] STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I live wid my daughter in a four-room house which we rent...
KNOX CO. (Stewart Carey) Some slaves were owned in Knox Co., most of them being in Barbourville where they served as house-servants. The negro men worked around the house and garde...
ROBERT HEARD--PORTRAIT OF AN EX-SLAVE [HW: J. Jaffee] As we approached the little dilapidated, one-room cabin on the Jackson County hilltop, the aroma of frying bacon smote our nos...
AMOS CLARK, 96, was born a slave of Robert Clark, in Washington County, Texas. After Amos was freed, he farmed near Belton, Texas. Amos now lives in Waco. "I was borned on the seco...
INTERVIEW FRANKIE GOOLE 204 5th Ave. So. Nashville, Tenn. "I wuz bawn in Smith County on uther side ob Lebanon. Ah'll be 85 y'ars ole Christmas Day. Mah ole Missis wuz named Sallie...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 390 Subject: JANE LEE Person Interviewed: Jane Lee Editor: G.L. Andrews [TR: Date stamp: SEP 10 1937] JANE LEE An interview wi...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: AUG 16 1937] MS. JOSIE JORDAN Age 75 yrs. 840 East King St., Tulsa, Oklahoma. I was born right in the middle of the War on the Mark...
Project #-1655 Mrs. Genevieve W. Chandler Murrells Inlet, S.C. Georgetown County FOLKLORE AUNT MARIAH HEYWOOD Aunt Mariah Heywood, born in 1855, was 'Allston labor' on Waccamaw Nec...
DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, FOLKLORE Ex-Slaves REV. ELI BOYD Reverend Eli Boyd was born May 29, 1864, four miles from Somerville, South Carolina on John Murray's plantation. It was a lar...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =ROBERT TOATLEY= =EX-SLAVE 82 YEARS OLD.= Robert Toatley lives with his daughter, his son, his son's wife, and their six children, ne...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: John Lynch, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 69 "My mother was a slave of Buck Lynch. They lived close to Nashville, Tennessee. My fath...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320249] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 678 Subject: MARY BARBOUR Person Interviewed: Mary Barbour Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] MARY BARBO...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Ellen Briggs Thompson 3704 W. Twelfth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 83 Birth and Relatives "I was born in October 1844, in Na...
ELVIRA BOLES, 94, has outlived nine of her ten children. She lives at 3109 Manzana St., El Paso, Texas, with her daughter, Minnie. She was born a slave of the Levi Ray family near...
ANDERSON CO. (Mildred Roberts) Many of the following stories were related by Mr. W.B. Morgan who at one time owned and operated a livery barn. He hired several negroes to look afte...
Mary D. Hudgins 107 Palm Street, Hot Springs, Ark. Interviewer: Mary D. Hudgins Person interviewed: John H. Logan Aged: c. 89 Home: 449 Gaines Avenue. [Date Stamp: MAY 11 1938] Gai...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Martin D. Richardson, Field Worker Jacksonville, Florida January 27, 1937 SAMUEL SMALLS A VOLUNTARY SLAVE FOR SEVEN Y...
JOHN CAMERON Jackson, Mississippi John Cameron, ex-slave, lives in Jackson. He was born in 1842 and was owned by Howell Magee. He is five feet six inches tall, and weighs about 150...
Code No. Project, 1886-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, July 28, 1937 No. Words ---- Reduced from ---- words Rewritten by ---- CHARLIE DAVIS Ex-Slave, 88...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Charlie Davis 100 North Plum, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 76 "They said I was born in 1862, the second day of March, in Little Ro...
Sarah Probst, Reporter Audrey Meighen, Author-Editor Jun 9, 1937 Folklore Meigs County, District Three [HW: Middeport] NAN STEWART Age 87 "I'se bawned Charl'stun, West Virginia in...