Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Susa Lagrone 25th and Texas Streets, Pine Bluff, Ark. Age: 79 "I don't know exactly how old I am but I know I was here at surre...
Albert Strope, Field Worker Federal Writers' Project St. Joseph County--District #1 Mishawaka, Indiana ADELINE ROSE LENNOX--EX-SLAVE 1400 South Sixth Street, Elkhart, Indiana Adeli...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Betty Coleman 1112-1/2 Indiana Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 80 Occupation: Cotton Picker [Dec 31 1937] "My father belonged...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Emma Moore 3715 Short West Second, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 80 Occupation: Laundry work "I'se born in slavery times. When my d...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Frances Smith 2224 Havis Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 77 "I specs I was born in slavery times. I remember seein' the Yanke...
Dibble, Fred Beaumont, Jefferson Co. Dist. #3 ROSA GREEN, 85 years old, was born at Ketchi, Louisiana, but as soon as she was old enough became a housegirl on the plantation of Maj...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Cora Scroggins, Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 48 or 50 "My mother was born in Spring Hill, Tennessee and brought to Arkansas by her...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 June 1, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "Yas Sir, my ole Marster had lots o' land, a big plantation down at Lockhar...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 453 Subject: Ex-Slave Stories Person Interviewed: Adora Rienshaw Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date stamp: JUN 1 (unclear) 1...
Mississippi Federal Writers Slave Autobiographies CLARA C. YOUNG Monroe County, Mississippi Clara G. Young, ex-slave, Monroe County, is approximately 95 years old, about five feet...
Interviewer: Mary D. Hudgins Person Interviewed: Emma Sanderson Home: 617 Wade Street, Hot Springs. Aged: 75 "Emma Sanderson"--"Wade Street". That was all the prospective interview...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Willie Buck Charleston, Jr., Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 74 "I was born up here on the Biscoe place before Mr. Biscoe was heard of i...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Mamie Thompson Brinkley, Ark. Age: 68 "I come here with my parents in 1887. Nothing much here in Brinkley then but woods and t...
Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: Nellie James, Russellville, Arkansas Age: 72 "Nellie James is my name. Yes, Mr. D. B. James was my husband, and he remembered yo...
Project 1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. ANDERSON BATES EX-SLAVE 87 YEARS OLD. Anderson Bates lives with his son-in-law and daughter, Ed and Dora Owens, in a three-room frame hous...
PLANTATION LIFE ANDERSON FURR, Age 87 298 W. Broad Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Sadie B. Hornsby [HW: (white)] Athens Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens Leila Harris Augusta and...
=Project 1885 -1-= =District #4= =Spartanburg, S.C.= =June 7, 1937= =FOLK-LORE: EX-SLAVE= "I was born about 1849 in the Dutch Fork section of Newberry County, S.C. I was slave of I...
Oklahoma Writer's Project Ex-Slaves POLLY COLBERT Age 83 yrs. Colbert, Oklahoma I am now living on de forty-acre farm dat de Government give me and it is just about three miles fro...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =TOM ROSBORO= =EX-SLAVE 79 YEARS OLD.= Tom Rosboro lives with his daughter, Estelle Perry, in a three-room frame house, on Cemetery S...
GREEN CUMBY, 86, was born a slave of the Robert H. Cumby family, in Henderson, Texas. He was about 14 at the close of the Civil War. He stayed with his old master four years after...
EX-SLAVE INTERVIEW JULIA BUNCH, Age 85 Beech Island South Carolina Written by: Leila Harris Augusta Edited by: John N. Booth District Supervisor Federal Writers' Project Res. 6 & 7...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Lidia Jones 228 N. Oak Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 94 Occupation: None--blind "I was born in Mississippi and emigrated to...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves MORRIS SHEPPARD Age 85 yrs. Fort Gibson, Okla. Old Master tell me I was borned in November 1852, at de old home place about five miles east of W...
Project 1885-1 Folklore Spartanburg, Dist. 4 Nov. 10, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "I is gwine over to Tosch to see Maria. Everybody know Maria. She go by R...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 July 20, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "Some white men called in question today about de reigning governor enduri...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: John Jones 3109 W. 10th Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 82 "I come here in 1856--you can figure it out for yourself. I was bo...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: John Jones, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 71 "I was raised an orph'ant but I was born in Tennessee. I lived over there and farmed ti...
PLANTATION LIFE NEAL UPSON, Age 81 450 4th Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Miss Grace McCune [HW: (White)] Athens Edited by: Mrs. Sarah H. Hall Athens and John N. Booth District...
Code No. Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, January 4, 1938 No. of Words ---- Reduced from ---- words Rewritten by ---- JOSEPHINE BACCHUS Ex-...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Katie Arbery 815 W. Thirteenth, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 80 "I am eighty years old. My name 'fore I was a Arbery was Baxter. M...