Project #1655 Henry Grant Columbia, S. C. CHARLIE DAVIS'S MUSINGS. Charlie Davis, now seventy-nine years old, was a small boy when the slaves were freed. He lives alone in one room...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 1239 Subject: GEORGE ROGERS Person Interviewed: George Rogers Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt GEORGE ROGERS Ex-Slave Story "Georg...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Henrietta Isom, Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 81 "I was born in Mississippi. It wasn't far from Memphis, Tennessee. I heard em talking...
MOLLY HARRELL was born a slave on the Swanson plantation, near Palestine, Texas. She was a housegirl, but must have been too small to do much work. She does not know her age, but t...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Laura Abromsom, R.F.D., Holly Grove, Arkansas Receives mail at Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 74 "My mama was named Eloise Rogers. S...
LIZA JONES, 81, was born a slave of Charley Bryant, near Liberty, Texas. She lives in Beaumont, and her little homestead is reached by a devious path through a cemetery and across...
MARTHA SPENCE BUNTON, 81, was born a slave, Jan. 1, 1856, on the John Bell plantation, in Murphfreesboro, Tennessee. Mr. Bell sold Martha, her mother and four sisters to Joseph Spe...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ben Hite 1515 Ohio Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 74 "Well, I didn't zactly live in slavery times. I was born in 1864, the 4...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 July 7, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I ain't never give you dis information. Miss Susie and Miss Tommie Carlisl...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 June 28, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I do not knows when er whar I was born. My father was Price Feaster; moth...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date Stamp: Aug 12 1937] LOU SMITH Age 83 yrs. Platter, Okla. Sho', I remembers de slavery days! I was a little gal but I can tell you lots of...
Project #-1655 Martha S. Pinckney Charleston, S.C. FOLKLORE JANE HOLLINS AGE 97 Jane was found in the sunshine on her piazza, busily occupied, as she always would be. With her full...
RACHEL SULLIVAN, 1327 Reynolds Street, Augusta, Ga., Born 1852. We found Rachel Sullivan sitting on the porch of a two room house on Reynolds Street. She is a large, fleshy woman....
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: William L. Dunwoody 2116 W. 24th Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: About 98 [HW: Remembers Jeff Davis] "I was born in Charleston,...
Ex-Slave Stories District 5 Vanderburgh County Lauana Creel INDIANS MADE SLAVES AMONG THE NEGROES. INTERVIEWS WITH GEORGE FORTMAN Cor. Bellemeade Ave. and Garvin St. Evansville, In...
Interviewer: Mary D. Hudgins. Person Interviewed: James Baker Aged: 81 Home: With daughter who owns home at 941 Wade St. The outskirts of eastern Hot Springs resemble a vast checke...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Viola B. Muse, Field Worker Palatka, Florida RANDALL LEE Randall Lee of 500 Branson Street, Palatka, Florida, was bor...
CAMPBELL DAVIS, 85, was born in Harrison Co., Texas, a slave of Henry Hood. He remained on the Hood place about three years after he was freed, then farmed in Louisiana. In 1873 he...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Angeline Jones Near Biscoe and Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 79 [Date Stamp: May 31 1938] "I was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Mother...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Austin Pen Parnell 4314 W. Seventeenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 73 Occupation: Carpenter Birth and General Fact About Li...
Miriam Logan, Reporter Lebanon, Ohio Warren County, District 21 Story of WADE GLENN from Winston-Salem North Carolina: (doesn't know his age) "Yes Madam, I were a slave--I'm old en...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves WILLIAM WALTERS Age 85 yrs. Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mammy Ann (that was my mother) was owned by Mistress Betsy, and lived on the Bradford plantation in...
N. C. District: No. 2 [ ] Worker: Mrs. Edith S. Hibbs No. Words: 275 Subject: Story of Joseph Anderson Interviewed: Joseph Anderson 113 Rankin St., Wilmington, N. C. Edited: Mrs. W...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Martin D. Richardson, Field Worker Grandin, Florida NEIL COKER Interesting tales of the changes that came to the sect...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) L. Rebecca Baker, Field Worker Daytona Beach, Florida January 11, 1937 "PROPHET" JOHN HENRY KEMP A long grey beard, a...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon, Winnsboro, S. C. JOHN C. BROWN AND ADELINE BROWN EX-SLAVES 86 YEARS AND 96 YEARS OLD. John C. Brown and his wife, Adeline, who is eleven years older than...
Maryland Sept. 4, 1937 Rogers PERRY LEWIS, Ex-slave. Reference: Personal interview with Perry Lewis, ex-slave, at his home, 1124 E. Lexington St., Baltimore. "I was born on Kent Is...
Interviewer: Beulah Sherwood Hagg Person interviewed: [HW: Henry Kirk] H.K. Miller 1513 State Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 86 "No ma'am, it will not bother me one bit if you...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 1108 Subject: ALEX WOODS Story teller: Alex Woods Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt ALEX WOODS Ex-Slave Story 8 Ford Alley--end of...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: James Henry Stith 2223 W. Nineteenth Street Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 72 "I was born la Sparta in Hancock County, Georgia, in Jan...