[HW: Dist. 5 Ex-Slave #84] Whitley, Driskell 1-20-37 SLAVERY AS WITNESSED BY ANNIE PRICE [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937] Mrs. Annie Price was born in Spaulding County, Georgia October 12,...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) James Johnson, Field Worker Lake City, Florida November 6, 1936 CLAUDE AUGUSTA WILSON In 1857 on the plantation of To...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Ed Allen, Des Arc, Ark. Age: ? "I know that after freedom they took care of my pa and ma and give em a home long as they lived...
Folklore District #5 Vanderburgh County Lauana Creel "A TRADITION FROM PRE-CIVIL WAR DAYS" KATIE SUTTON, AGED EX-SLAVE Oak street, Evansville, Ind. "White folks 'jes naturally diff...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =NED WALKER= =EX-SLAVE 83 YEARS OLD.= Ned Walker lives in the village of White Oak, near Winnsboro, S.C., in a two-room frame house,...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Martin Richardson, Field Worker South Jacksonville, Florida December 8, 1936 SHACK THOMAS, Centenarian Beady-eyed, gr...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Wade Thermon, R.F.D. (PWA Reservation), Des Arc, Arkansas Age: 67 "I was born in Boswell, Oklahoma. My mother and father was b...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320047] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 737 Subject: CHANEY HEWS Person Interviewed: Chaney Hews Editor: G. L. Andrews [TR: No Date Stamp] CHANEY HEWS 80...
#773 Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Cora L. Horton 918 W. Ninth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: Between 50 and 60? "My grandfather on my mother's side was a s...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: E.L. Byrd 618 N. Cedar, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 76 "I was born in 1862. I just can remember the Yankees. They come through th...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Frances Fluker, Edmondson, Arkansas Age: 77 [May 11 1938] "I was born the 25th day of December 1860 in Marshall County, Missis...
[HW: Dist. 5 E.F. Driskell 12/30/36 JULIA RUSH, Ex-Slave 109 years old] [TR: The beginning of each line on the original typewritten pages for this interview is very faint, and some...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320116] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 465 Subject: Eustace Hodges Story Teller: Eustace Hodges Editor: Geo. L. Andrews [TR: Date Stamp "AUG 6 1937"] EUSTA...
Jenny McKee: Mrs. Jenny McKee, of color, who lives just North of London can tell many interesting things of her life. "Aunt Jenny" as she is called, is about eighty-five years of a...
Project #1665 W.W. Dixon Winnsboro, S.C. GRACIE GIBSON EX-SLAVE 86 YEARS OLD. "I was born at Palatka, Florida. I was a slave of Captain John Kinsler. Wish all white men was just li...
=Project 1885-1= =Folklore= =Spartanburg, Dist. 4= =Jan. 17, 1937= =Edited by:= =Elmer Turnage= =STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES= "My people tells me a lot about when I was a lil' wee boy....
INTERVIEW WILEY CHILDRESS 808 Gay St. Nashville, Tennessee "I'se 83 Y'ars ole en wuz bawn a slave. Mah mammy b'longed ter de Bosley's en mah daddy b'longed ter de Scales." "W'en Mi...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Henry C. Pettus, Marianna, Arkansas Age: 80 "I was born in Wilkes County, near Washington, Georgia. My mother's owners was Dr....
Interviewer: Pernella Anderson, colored. EX-SLAVES Yes I was born in slavery time. I was born September 2, 1862 in the field under a tree. I don't know nothing about slavery. I was...
Aunt VIRGINIA BELL, 1205 Ruthven St., Houston, was born a slave near Opelousas, Louisiana, on the plantation of Thomas Lewis. Although she remembers being told she was born on Chri...
COMBINED INTERVIEWS [HW: Dist 1-2 Ex-Slave #24] FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECTS, Augusta-Athens Supervisor: Miss Velma Bell [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937] EXCERPTS FROM SLAVE INTERVIEWS [ADELI...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Letha Johnson 2203 W. Twelfth Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 77 "I heered the people say I was born in time of slavery. I wa...
Code No. Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, October 5, 1937 No. Words Reduced from ---- words Rewritten by ---- SYLVIA CANNON, Ex-Slave, Age...
Code No. Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, August 4, 1937 No. Words ---- Reduced from ---- words Rewritten by ---- SYLVIA CANNON Ex-Slave, A...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Pearl Randolph, Field Worker Madison, Florida January 30, 1937 WILLIS DUKES Born in Brooks County, Georgia, 83 years...
BILL HOMER, 87, was born a slave on June 17, 1850, to Mr. Jack Homer, who owned a large plantation near Shreveport, La. In 1860 Bill was given to Mr. Homer's daughter, who moved to...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 801 Subject: PENNY WILLIAMS Story teller: Penny Williams Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt PENNY WILLIAMS Ex-Slave Story An interview...
Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #6 Marion County Anna Pritchett 1200 Kentucky Avenue FOLKLORE RICHARD MILLER--AN OLD SOLDIER 1109 North West Street Richard Miller w...
PLANTATION LIFE as viewed by Ex-Slave GEORGIA JOHNSON 1537 W. Broad Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Grace McCune Athens -- Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens Leila Harris Augusta G...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: J. Roberts, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 45 or 50 Occupation: Methodist preacher "My father was a Federal soldier in the Civil War....