Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Sarah Pittman 1320 W. Twentieth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: About 82 "I never saw nothing between white folks and colored f...
Circumstances of Interview STATE--Arkansas NAME OF WORKER--Samuel S. Taylor ADDRESS--Little Rock, Arkansas DATE--December, 1938 SUBJECT--Ex-slave 1. Name and address of informant--...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320244] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 745 Subject: LIZZIE BAKER Person Interviewed: Lizzie Baker Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] LIZZIE B...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Maggie Broyles. Forrest City. Arkansas Age: About 80? "I was born in Decatur, Tennessee. Mother was sold on the block at publi...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Malindy Robinson 8th Street, West Memphis, Arkansas Age: 61 "I was born in Wilkerson County, Mississippi. My ma never was sold...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Molly Finley, Honey Creek 3-1/2 miles from Mesa, Arkansas Age: Born 1865 "My master was Captain Baker Jones and his pa was Joh...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Rosetta Davis, Marianna, Arkansas Age: 55 "I was born in Phillips County, Arkansas. My folks' master was named Dr. Jack Spivy....
Name of Interviewer: Velma Sample Subject: Slavery Days THE ATTACK THE YANKEES MADE ON JOHNNIE REAVES PLACE GIVEN BY AUNT ELCIE BROWN Aunt Elcie Brown (a negro girl age nine years...
Interviewer: Mrs. Annie L. LaCotts Person interviewed: Adeline Burris, DeWitt, Arkansas Age; 91 Adeline Burris is a little old white-haired wrinkled-faced mulatto or yellow Negro w...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Frank A. Patterson 906 Chester Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 88 "I was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1850. My father was...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Frank Briles 817 Cross Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: About 82 or 83 [HW: Gives up the Ghost] "I was born right here in Arkans...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Jeff Metcalf R.F.D., Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 73 "My mother's name was Julia Metcalf and my father's name was Jim Metcalf. They...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: John Goodson (Goodrum) Des Arc, Arkansas Age: Born in 1865 "My master was Bill Goodrum. I was born at Des Arc out in the count...
Project 1885-1 Spartanburg, S. C. May 31, 1937 Edited by: Martha Ritter FOLKLORE: EX-SLAVES "I was born in Newberry County, S. C. below Prosperity on Capt. George De Walt's place....
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Cinda Johnson 506 E. Twenty, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 83 "Yes ma'm, this is Cinda. Yes'm, I remember seein' the soldiers but I...
FOLKLORE SUBJECTS Name of interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Subject: Slavery Time Songs Subject: Superstitions Story:--Information [TR: Additional topic moved from subsequent page.]...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Jim Davis 1112 Indiana Street Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 98 "Well, I've broke completely down. I ain't worth nothing. Got rheuma...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Linley Hadley Madison, Arkansas Age: 77 "I was born the very day the Civil War started, April 12, 1861. I was born in Monroe C...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mary Frazier, near Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 60 "My parents was Neily and Amos Hamilton. They lived in Marshall County, about fort...
Interviewer: Pernella M. Anderson Person interviewed: Millie Johnson (Old Bill) El Dorado, Arkansas Age: ? "I was born in Caledonia, Arkansas but I don't know when. I just can't te...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 607 Subject: TINEY SHAW, EX-SLAVE OF WAKE COUNTY, 76. Story Teller: Tiney Shaw Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt TINEY SHAW Ex-Slave...
WILLIAM GREEN, or "Reverend Bill", as he is call by the other Negroes, was brought to Texas from Mississippi in 1862. His master was Major John Montgomery. William is 87 years old....
PLANTATION LIFE AS VIEWED BY EX-SLAVE WILLIAM McWHORTER, Age 78 383 W. Broad Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Mrs. Sadie B. Hornsby Athens Edited by: Mrs. Sarah H. Hall Athens an...
Spartanburg, S. C. District No. 4 May 27, 1937. Edited by R. V. Williams [~HW: Lambrigh~] Folk Lore: Folk Tales (negro) "I was 'bout nine year ole when de big war broke loose. My p...
Project 1885-1 FOLK LORE Spartanburg, S.C. May 10, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage SLAVE STORIES Living with his married daughter is an old negro slave by the name of Jerry Hill. He...
MADISON BRUIN, 92, spent his early days as a slave on the Curtis farm in the blue grass region of Kentucky, where he had some experience with some of the fine horses for which the...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 397 Subject: MARGARET THORNTON Person Interviewed: Margaret Thornton Editor: G.L. Andrews [TR: Date stamp: SEP 10 1937] MARGAR...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves MATILDA POE Age 80 yrs. McAlester, Okla. I was born in Indian Territory on de plantation of Isaac Love. He was old Master, and Henry Love was yo...
Grace Monroe Dist. 4 Jefferson County SLAVE STORY MR. MATTHEW HUME, A FORMER SLAVE Mr. Hume had many interesting experiences to tell concerning the part slavery had played in his f...
NELSEN DENSON, 90, was born near Hambirg, Arkansas, a slave of Jim Nelson, who sold Nelsen and his family to Felix Grundy. Nelsen's memory is poor, but he managed to recall a few i...