N. C. District: No. 2 [320185] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 459 Subject: Ex-Slave Story Person Interviewed: Clay Bobbit Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 17 1937"...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Cresa Mack 1417 Short Indiana St., Pine Bluff, Ark. Age: 85 "I can tell you something about slavery days. I was born at South B...
Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ella Pittman 2409 West Eleventh Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 84 "Yes ma'm, I was born in slavery days. I tell you I never had n...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ella Pittman 2417 W. Eleventh Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 84 [TR: Appears to be same as last informant despite different...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Martha Ruffin 1310 Cross Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 80 "I was born in North Carolina, and I was seven years old when the S...
Maryland Sept. 22, 1937 Rogers MENELLIS GASSAWAY, Ex-slave. Reference: Personal interview with Menellis Gassaway, ex-slave, on Sept. 22, 1937, at M.E. Home, Carrollton Ave., Baltim...
RICHARD CARRUTHERS, 100 year old ex-slave, was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Billy Coats bought him and his mother and brought them to Bastrop Co., Texas. He came to Houston 20 y...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Carry Allen Patton Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 71 "I was born in Shelby County, Tennessee. My parents was Tillie Watts and Pie...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves HANNAH McFARLAND Age 85 yrs. Oklahoma City, Okla. I was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, February 29, 1853. My father was name James Gainey a...
HENRY H. BUTTLER, 87, venerable graduate of Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, and ex-school teacher, was born a slave to Mr. George Sullivan on his 300 acre plantation in Farquier...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320261] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 908 Subject: A Slave Story Story Teller: Charity Austin Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 26 1937"]...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: NOV 5 1937] IDA HENRY Age 83 Oklahoma City, Okla. I was born in Marshall, Texas, in 1854. Me mother was named Millie Henderson and...
[HW: Dist. 1 Ex Slave #68] EX-SLAVE INTERVIEW: LUCY McCULLOUGH, Age 79 BY: SARAH H. HALL ATHENS, GA. [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937] [TR: This first half of this interview was edited by h...
EX-SLAVE INTERVIEW: MARGARET GREEN 1430 Jones Street Augusta, Georgia. (Richmond County) BY: Mrs. Margaret Johnson Editor Federal Writers' Project, Augusta, Georgia. EX-SLAVE INTER...
JAMES CAPE, centenarian, now living in a dilapidated little shack in the rear of the stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas, was born a slave to Mr. Bob Houston, who owned a large ranch i...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) J.M. Johnson, Field Worker Jacksonville, Florida November 17, 1936 LOUIS NAPOLEON About three miles from South Jackso...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mary Teel Holly Grove, Ark. Age: 74 "Our Masters was Wade and Curls. Miss Fannie was Master Wade's wife. They was kin somehow....
Charlie Davenport, Ex-slave, Adams County FEC Edith Wyatt Moore Rewrite, Pauline Loveless Edited, Clara E. Stokes [CHARLIE DAVENPORT Natchez, Mississippi] "I was named Charlie Dave...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320235] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 863 Subject: HERNDON BOGAN Story Teller: Herndon Bogan Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] HERNDON BOGAN...
Project 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, August 20, 1937 WILLIAM HENRY DAVIS Ex-Slave, 72 Years "I born de first day of March in 1865 cause de white...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: J.L. Smith 1215 Pulaski Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 76 "I was born in 1862 in the month of September on the fifteenth. I wa...
Code No. Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, December 13, 1937 No. Words ---- Reduced from ---- words Rewritten by ---- LIZZIE DAVIS Ex-Slave,...
Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, February 4, 1938 LIZZIE'S 'SPONSIBILITY I. The first scene of "Lizzie's 'Sponsibility" is that of the smal...
Prince Johnson, Ex-slave, Coahoma County FEC Mrs. Carrie Campbell Rewrite, Pauline Loveless Edited, Clara E. Stokes PRINCE JOHNSON Clarksdale, Mississippi "Yes mam, I sho' can tell...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Alice Biggs Holly Grove, Ark. Age: "Bout 70" "My mother come from Kentucky and my father from Virginia. That where they born a...
Ellen B. Warfield May 18, 1937 ALICE LEWIS. (Alice Lewis, ex-slave, 84, years old, in charge of sewing-room at Provident Hospital (Negro), Baltimore. Tall, slender, erect, her head...
Ruth Thompson, Interviewing Graff, Editing Ex-Slave Interview Cincinnati CHARLES H. ANDERSON 3122 Fredonia St., Cincinnati, Ohio "Life experience excels all reading. Every place yo...
Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person Interviewed: Edward Bradley 115 South Plum Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 70 "I was seventy years old this last past June, the sixth day. Lots...
PLANTATION LIFE AS VIEWED BY EX-SLAVE JULIA COLE, Age 78 169 Yonah Avenue Athens, Georgia Written by: Corry Fowler Athens Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens Leila Harris Augusta and J...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves 10-19-38 718 words LIZA SMITH Age 91 Muskogee, Oklahoma Both my mammy and pappy was brought from Africa on a slave boat and sold on de Richmond...