Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Landy Rucker 2315 W. Fourth Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 83 "I was born in 1854 in the State of Georgia, Elbert County. "I...
Tale of Mary Wooldridge: (Clarksville Pike--Age about 103.) "Mary and her twin sister were slaves born in Washington County, Kentucky, near Lexington, belonging to Bob Eaglin. When...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Pearl Randolph, Field Worker Lake City, Florida January 14, 1937 REBECCA HOOKS Rebecca Hooks, age 90 years, is one of...
SCOTT HOOPER, 81, was born a slave of the Rev. Robert Turner, a Baptist minister who owned seven slave families. They lived on a small farm near Tenaha, then called Bucksnort, in S...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ida Harper 819 West Pullen Street; Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 93 "Now what you want with me? I was born in Mississippi. I come h...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Josephine Howell Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 72 "My mother was Rebecca Jones. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee. Grandma was a...
Interviewer: Mrs. Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Avalena McConico on the [TR: ---- ----] west of Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 40[TR: ?] [TR: Much of this interview smeared and diff...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lawson Jamar, Edmondson, Arkansas Age: 66 [Date Stamp: MAY 11 1938] "Papa had twelve children and when he died he lef' two and...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 July 12, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "What-so-ever I can find! I traveling dat way over 73 years. If he ax de L...
Project #-1655 Mrs. Genevieve W. Chandler Murrells Inlet, S. C. Georgetown County (Some recollections of Mom Hagar Brown) Visitor: "Mom Hagar, how old did you say you were?" Hagar:...
PLANTATION LIFE MARY COLBERT, Age 84 168 Pearl Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Sadie B. Hornsby [HW: (White)] Athens Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens and John N. Booth District S...
Project #1655 Henry Grant Columbia, S. C. SAMUEL BOULWARE EX-SLAVE 82 YEARS OLD. Samuel Boulware's only home is one basement room, in the home of colored friends, for which no rent...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary Hicks No. Words: 344 Subject: Ex-Slave Story Teller: Anna Mitchel Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt ANNA MITCHEL Ex-slave story. An interview with Anna M...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320127] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 547 Subject: AUNT BARBARA'S LOVE STORY Story Teller: Barbara Haywood Editor: Geo. L. Andrews [TR: Date Stamp "AUG 4...
=Project 1885 -1-= =Spartanburg, S.C.= =District #4= =May 31, 1937= =Edited by:= =Martha Ritter= =FOLK-LORE: EX-SLAVES= "I was born on Capt. John P. Kinard's place. My mammy and pa...
#733 Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: G. W. Hawkins 1114 Appianway, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 73 "I was born in Lamar County, Vernon, Alabama, January 1, 1865. I...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary Hicks No. Words: 535 Subject: A GOOD MISTRESS Teller: Henrietta McCullers Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt A GOOD MISTRESS An interview with Henrietta M...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 544 Subject: JOHN THOMAS WILLIAMS Person Interviewed: John Thomas Williams Editor: G.L. Andrews [TR: Date stamp: SEP 10 1937...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mahalia Shores, Marianna, Arkansas Age: 77 "I was born in Greene County, Georgia. My owner was Jim Jackson. He bought my mothe...
Susan Snow, Ex-slave, Lauderdale County FEC W.B. Allison Rewrite, Pauline Loveless Edited, Clara E. Stokes SUSAN SNOW Meridian, Mississippi "Aunt Sue" Snow, a rather small and prof...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: AUG 19 1937] FRANCIS BRIDGES Age 73 yrs. Oklahoma City, Okla. I was born in Red River County, Texas in 1864, and that makes me 73 y...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =JESSE WILLIAMS= =EX-SLAVE 83 YEARS OLD.= At the end of one of the silent streets of west Chester, S.C., that prolongs itself into a...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Rachel A. Austin, Field Worker Jacksonville, Florida December 5, 1936 MARGRETT NICKERSON In her own vernacular, Margr...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Annie Thompson, Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 55? "I was raised by my father's sister and my grandmother. Later on I come to my daddy...
INTERVIEW DAN THOMAS 941 Jefferson Street Nashville, Tennessee "I wuz bawn in slavery in 1847 at Memphis, Tennessee en mah marster wuz Deacon Allays. Mah mammy wuz de cook at de bi...
--- 29 1938 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Pink Holly Holly Grove, Arkansas Age: 70 "I was born in Anderson County, South Carolina. My papa was Abe Brown and...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: W.D. Miller, West Memphis, Arkansas Age: 65? "Grandpa was sold twice in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was sold twice to the same...
CALLOWAY CO. (L. Cherry) Story of Uncle George Scruggs, a colored slave: I wuz a slave befo de wa. My boss, de man dat I b'long to, wuz Ole Man Vol Scruggs. He wuz a race hoss man....
Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: J.H. Beckwith 619 North Spruce Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 68 "No ma'm I was not born in the time of slavery. I was sixty-eigh...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320230] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 942 Subject: GEORGE W. HARRIS Story Teller: George W. Harris Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] GEORGE...