LOUIS FOWLER, 84, was born a slave to Robert Beaver, in Macon Co., Georgia. Fowler did not take his father's name, but that of his stepfather, J. Fowler. After he was freed, Louis...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves HAL HUTSON Age 90 yrs. Oklahoma City, Okla. I was born at Galveston, Tennessee, October 12, 1847. There were 11 children: 7 brothers; Andrew, Ge...
Interviewer: Watt McKinney Person interviewed: Joe Clinton, Route 2, Marvell, Arkansas Age: 86 "Uncle Joe" Clinton, on ex-Mississippi slave, lives on a small farm that he owns a fe...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Josephine Ann Barnett, R.F.D., De Valls Bluff, Arkansas Age: 75 or 80 "I do not knows my exact age. I judge I somewhere betwee...
BENJAMIN JOHNSON EX-SLAVE Following is Benjamin Johnson's own account of some of his experiences as a slave and of conditions on his plantation. "On our plantation de white folks b...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: J.F. Boone 1502 Izard, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 66 [HW: A Union Veteran] "My father's name was Arthur Boone and my mother's name...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lucy Key, Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 70 plus "I was born in Marshall County, Mississippi. I seen Yankees go by in droves. I w...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Rev. Frank T. Boone 1410 W. Seventeenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 80 [HW: Free Colonies] "I was born in Nansemond County,...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Absolom Jenkins, R.F.D., Helena, Arkansas Age: 80 [Date Stamp: MAY 31 1938] "I was born a few years before the break out of th...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Arey Lamar 612 E. 14th Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 [Date Stamp: MAY 31 1938] "Yes'm, I was born in slavery days but I...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. HENRY DAVIS EX-SLAVE 80 YEARS OLD. Henry Davis is an old Negro, a bright mulatto, who lives in a two-room frame house on the farm of Mr....
JAMES LUCAS Natchez, Mississippi James Lucas, ex-slave of Jefferson Davis, lives at Natchez, Adams County. Uncle Jim is small, wrinkled, and slightly stooped. His woolly hair is wh...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Ellis Jefson (M. E. Preacher), Hazen, Ark. Age: 77 "My father was a full blood African. His parents come from there and he cou...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320048] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 922 Subject: WILLIAM GEORGE HINTON Person Interviewed: William George Hinton Editor: G. L. Andrews [TR: HW Date: "...
EX-SLAVE INTERVIEW BILL HEARD 475 Reese Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Miss Grace McCune Athens -- Edited by: Mrs. Sarah H. Hall Athens -- and John N. Booth District Supervisor...
[HW: Negro-Tampa-Slave Interviews] July 9, 1937 STORIES OF FLORIDA Prepared for Use in Public Schools by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration A MARINE...
Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: William Little, Atkins, Arkansas Age: 83 "I was born on the plantation of Dr. Andrew Scott, but my old ma'ster was Col. Ben T. E...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. ED BARBER EX-SLAVE 77 YEARS OLD. Ed Barber lives in a small one-room house in the midst of a cotton field on the plantation of Mr. A. M....
Elizabeth Watson BOB MOBLEY, Ex-Slave, Aged about 90 Pulaski County, Georgia (1937) [Date Stamp: JUL 20 1937] When recently interviewed, this aged colored man--the soul of humblene...
Elizabeth Watson M.G. 7/15/37 MELVIN SMITH, Ex-Slave, 96 Years [Date Stamp: JUL 28 1937] "Yes'm, I show does 'member all 'about my white folks an' th' war 'cause I was twenty-four...
Project 1885-1 Folklore Spartanburg, Dist. 4 Dec. 23, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage EX-SLAVE STORIES EMANUEL ELMORE. "I was born on June 20th and I remember when the war broke out,...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Isaac Crawford Brinkley, Ark. Age: 75 "I was born the first year of the Civil War. I was born and raised and married in Holmes...
PLANTATION LIFE, AS VIEWED BY AN EX-SLAVE GEORGIA SMITH, Age 87 286 Augusta Ave. Athens, Georgia Written by: Miss Grace McCune Research Worker Federal Writers' Project Athens, Geor...
Project 1886 -1- District #4 Spartanburg, S.C. From Field Notes Folk-Lore May 26, 1937 FOLKLORE: EX-SLAVES: Journeying on Cudd Street this morning and stopping at the "Old Ladies'...
JOHN HILL 1525 Broad Street Athens, Georgia PLANTATION LIFE, AS VIEWED BY AN EX-SLAVE Written By: Grace McCune Research Worker Federal Writers' Project Athens, Georgia Edited By: L...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 June 3, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES OF EX-SLAVES Upon learning where an ex-slave lived, the writer walked up to a house on Pic...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Martin Richardson, Field Worker Eatonville, Florida ARNOLD GRAGSTON (Verbatim Interview with Arnold Gragston, 97-year...
Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: Caroline Bonds Russellville, Arkansas Age: 70 "What's all dis info'mation you askin' about goin' to be for? Will it help us alon...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Dan Newborn 1000 Louisiana, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born in 1860. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee. I suppose it was in...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. DINAH CUNNINGHAM EX-SLAVE 84 YEARS OLD. Dinah Cunningham lives about seven miles west of Ridgeway, S. C., on the Hood place about a hundr...