N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 680 Subject: A SLAVERY STORY Story teller: MAGGIE MIALS Editor: George L. Andrews [TR: Date stamp: SEP 10 1937] MAGGIE MIALS...
--- 1- 1937 Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Tom Haynes 1110 W. Second Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: "I was six years old when the war ended--the day we was...
AUNTIE THOMAS JOHNS, 508 Knopp St., Cleburne, Texas, was born in Burleson Co., Texas, in 1864. She was only two when her mother was freed, so knows nothing of slavery except storie...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: William Kirk 1910 W. Sixth Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 84 "I been here ever since 1853--yes ma'm! Cose I 'member the war!...
Wm. R. Mays Dist 4 Johnson Co. ANGIE BOYCE BORN IN SLAVERY, Mar. 14, 1861 on the Breeding Plantation, Adair Co. Ky. Mrs. Angie Boyce here makes mention of facts as outlined to her...
[HW: Dist 5] Josephine Lowell [HW: ELIZA WILLIAMSON] [TR: This interview contained many handwritten edits; where text was transposed or meaning was significantly changed, it has be...
JEFF CALHOUN, about 98, was born a slave of the Calhoun family, in Alton, Alabama. After his master died, a son-in-law, Jim Robinson, brought Jeff and 200 other slaves to Austin, T...
Circumstances of interview STATE--Arkansas NAME OF WORKER--Samuel S. Taylor ADDRESS--Little Rock, Arkansas DATE--December, 1938 SUBJECT--Ex-slave [TR: Repetitive information delete...
UNION CO. (Ruby Garten) Mrs. Heyburn: (These two stories were told by Mrs. Heyburn as she remembered them from her grandmother). "When the War was going on between the States and t...
Works Progress Administration Harry L. Hopkins, Administrator Ellen S. Woodward, Assistant Administrator Henry S. Alsberg, Director of the Federal Writers' Project PLANTATION LIFE...
CHRISTIAN CO. (Mamie Hanbery) HOO-DOOISM A snake head an' er lizard tail, Hoo-doo; Not close den a mile o' jail, Hoo-doo; De snake mus' be er rattlin' one, Mus' be killed at set uv...
Interviewer: Pernella Anderson Person interviewed: Frank Fikes, El Dorado, Arkansas Age: About 88 "My name is Frank Fikes. I live between El Dorado and Strong and I am 79 years old...
FOLKLORE SUBJECTS #665 Name of interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Subject: Humorous Story Story--Information (If not enough space on this page, add page) "I heard a story 'bout a old...
INTERVIEW REV. JOHN MOORE 809 7th Avenue So. Nashville, Tennessee "I wuz bawn in Georgia (exact time not known) en mah mammy wuz half Indian en mah daddy a slave. Both ob dem owned...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves SALOMON OLIVER Age 78 yrs. Tulsa, Oklahoma. John A. Miller owned the finest plantation in Washington County, Mississippi, about 12-mile east of...
FOLKLORE SUBJECTS #665 Name of interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Subject: Superstitions Story--Information (If not enough space on this page, add page) "I've heard if a turkle dove,...
Project #-1655 Phoebe Faucette Hampton County ISAIAH [~HW: Solbert (?)~] BUTLER, EX-SLAVE 79 YEARS [~HW: See Ms. #~] "Yes, dis is Isaiah Butler, piece of him. Ain't much left of hi...
EX-SLAVE INTERVIEW JAMES BOLTON Athens, Georgia Written by: Mrs. Sarah H. Hall Federal Writers' Project Residency 4 Athens, Georgia Edited by: Miss Maude Barragan Residency 13 Augu...
INTERVIEW WITH LIZA MENTION BEECH ISLAND, S.C. Written and Edited By: Leila Harris and John N. Booth Federal Writers' Project Augusta, Georgia March 25, 1938 "Come right in. Have a...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Malindy Maxwell, Madison, Arkansas Age: Up in 80's "I was born close to Como and Sardis, Mississippi. My master and mistress w...
WILLIAM BRANCH, born 1850, 322 Utah St., San Antonio, Texas. Eyesight is so poor someone must lead him to the store or to church. William kneels at his bedside each evening at five...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Clark Hill 715 E. 17th Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 82 "Good morning. My name is Clark Hill. My name goes by my white folk...
#665 Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Clark Hill 818 E. Fifteenth Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 84 "I was workin' 'round the house when freedom come. I was...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Cornelia Ishmon 3319 W. Second Avenue Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 "I was born in Mississippi and I can member seein' the Yanke...
EX-SLAVE INTERVIEW EASTER BROWN 1020 S. Lumpkin Street Athens, Georgia Written By: Mrs. Sadie B. Hornsby Edited By: John N. Booth Federal Writers' Project WPA Residency No. 7 "Aunt...
ELLEN BUTLER was born a slave to Richmond Butler, near Whiska Chitto, in the northern part of Calcasieu Parish (now a part of Beauregard Parish), in Louisiana. Ellen is about 78 ye...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320156] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 1369 Subject: REV. SQUIRE DOWD Story Teller: Rev. Squire Dowd Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [HW: Minister--Interestin...
Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #6 Marion County Anna Pritchett 1200 Kentucky Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana FOLKLORE ROBERT MCKINLEY--EX-SLAVE 1664 Columbia Avenue,...
WILLIAM M. ADAMS, spiritualist preacher and healer, who lives at 1404 Illinois Ave., Ft. Worth, Texas, was born a slave on the James Davis plantation, in San Jacinto Co., Texas. Af...
Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: George Govan Russellville, Arkansas Age: 52 "George Govan is my name, and I was born in Conway County somewheres in December 188...