FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Samuel Johnson September 11, 1937 REV. SQUIRES JACKSON Lying comfortably in a bed encased with white sheets, Rev. Squ...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: AUG 19 1937] STEPHEN McCRAY Age 88 yrs. Oklahoma City, Okla. I was born in Huntsville County, Alabama, right where the Scottsboro b...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Cyrus Bellus 1320 Pulaski Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 73 [HW: Made Own Cloth] "I was born in Mississippi in 1865 in Jeffers...
K. Osthimer, Author Aug 12, 1937 Folklore: Stories from Ex-Slaves Lucas County, District Nine Toledo, Ohio The Story of MRS. HANNAH DAVIDSON. Mrs. Hannah Davidson occupies two room...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Mary Crosby 1216 Oak Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 76 "Good morning. I don't know anybody 'round here that was born in slav...
Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A. District #6 Marion County Anna Pritchett, 1200 Kentucky Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana FOLKLORE MRS. ROSALINE ROGERS--EX-SLAVE--110 YEARS OLD...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Katie Dillon 307 Hazel Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 82 [Dec 31 1937] "I hope I was here in slavery days--don't I look like...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Emma Morris, Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 71 "My parents was Jane and Sam McCaslin. They come from close to Atlanta, Georgia to...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: James Davis 1112 Indiana St. (owner), Pine Bluff, Ark. Age: 96 Occupation: Cotton farmer "This is what's left of me. How old? M...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 679 Subject: PLANTATION LIFE Teller: Lila Nichols Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date stamp: JUN 1 1937] PLANTATION LIFE An I...
[HW: Dist. 7 Ex-Slave #22] Adella S. Dixon District 7 PIERCE CODY OLD SLAVE STORY [HW: About 88] [MAY 8 1937] Pierce Cody was the eldest son of Elbert and Dorothy Cody. His father...
THE STORY OF "UNCLE" MOBLE HOPSON. (pronounced Mobile) Interview Saturday, November 28th at his home on the Poquoson River. (Recorded from memory within 1 hour after "being talked...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320169] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 130 Subject: EX-SLAVE STORY Story Teller: Julia Crenshaw Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: HW circled "I"] [TR: No Dat...
Project #1655 Martha S. Pinckney Charleston, S. C. FOLKLORE Approx. 660 words INTERVIEW WITH EX-SLAVE Age 88-90 Mary Frances Brown is a typical product of the old school of trained...
Project #-1655 Cassels R. Tiedeman Charleston, S. C. FOLKLORE INTERVIEW WITH AN EX-SLAVE Mary Frances Brown, about ninety years of age, born in slavery, on the plantation of Luke T...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Peggy Sloan 2450 Howard Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: About 80, or more Occupation: Farming "I was born in Arkansas in Tulip,...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: AUG 16 1937] WILLIAM HUTSON Age 98 yrs. Tulsa, Okla. When a feller gets as old as me it's a heap easier to forget things than it is...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Dora Holmes [HW crossed out: (light brown)] 1500 Valentine St., Little Rock, Ark. Age: 60? Occupation: Housewife "My father's half...
Project #1655 Henry Grant Columbia, S. C. REFLECTIONS OF EZRA ADAMS EX-SLAVE 83 YEARS OLD Ezra Adams is incapable of self-support, owing to ill health. He is very well taken care o...
JAMES D. JOHNSON, born Oct. 1st, 1860, at Lexington, Mississippi, was a slave of Judge Drennon. He now lives with his daughter at 4527 Baltimore St., Dallas, Texas. His memory is p...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: AUG 16 1937] NELLIE JOHNSON I don't know how old I is, but I is a great big half grown gal when the time of the War come, and I can...
ROBERT SHEPHERD, Age 91 386 Arch Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Grace McCune [HW: (White)] Athens Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens Leila Harris Augusta and John N. Booth Distric...
Ex-Slave Stories 5th District Vanderburgh County Lauana Creel 1415 S. Barker Avenue, Evansville, Indiana THE BIOGRAPHY OF A CHILD BORN IN SLAVERY SAMUEL WATSON [HW: Personal Interv...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Annie Beck, West Memphis, Arkansas Age: 50 "I was born in Mississippi. Mama was born in Alabama and sold to Holcomb, Mississip...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Charlie Rigger R.F.D., three miles, Palestine, Arkansas Age: 85 plus, doesn't know age "I was born six miles from Mounticellar...
PLANTATION LIFE AS VIEWED BY AN EX-SLAVE GREEN WILLBANKS, Age 77 347 Fairview Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Mrs. Sadie B. Hornsby Athens Edited by: Mrs. Sarah H. Hall Athens a...
GUS JOHNSON, 90 years or more, was born a slave of Mrs. Betty Glover, in Marengo Co., Alabama. Most of his memories are of his later boyhood in Sunnyside, Texas. He lives in an unk...
Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: J.N. Brown 3500 West 7th Ave. Pine Bluff, Ark. Age: 79 Occupation: Sells peanuts from wagon "Yes'm, I was livin' in slavery times--m...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mollie Hardy Scott, R.F.D., DeValls Bluff, Arkansas Age: 90 "I was born at Granville, Georgia in Franklin County. I don't know...
Interviewer: Mrs. Carol Graham Person interviewed: Tom & Sarah Douglas Resident: El Dorado, Arkansas Age: 90 and 83. NOTE: This is a second interview with Uncle Tom and Aunt Sarah...