Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: AUG 13 1937] DOC DANIEL DOWDY Age 81 yrs. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma I was born June 6, 1856 in Madison County, Georgia. Father was na...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320240] Worker: T. Pat Matthews No. Words: 1025 Subject: A Slave Story Story Teller: W. S. Debnam Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 30 1937"] W...
[HW: Ex. Slv. #6] [HW: MARSHAL BUTLER] Subject: Slavery Days And After District: No. 1 W.P.A. Editor and Research: Joseph E. Jaffee Supervisor: Joseph E. Jaffee [HW: (This copy has...
The Story of Mrs. C. Hood: Once upon a time during the Civil War my grandmother was alone with just one old faithful servant. The Union troops had just about taken everything she h...
PLANTATION LIFE as viewed by ex-slave ELISHA DOC GAREY 258 Lyndon Avenue Athens, Georgia Written by: Sadie B. Hornsby Athens -- Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens -- and John N. Booth...
PLANTATION LIFE RACHEL ADAMS, Age 78 300 Odd Street Athens, Georgia Written by: Sadie B. Hornsby [HW: (White)] Athens Edited by: Sarah H. Hall Athens and John N. Booth District Sup...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves LIZZIE FARMER Age 80 years McAlester, Okla. "Cousin Lizzie!" "What." "I'se seventy years old." And I say, "Whut's you telling me for. I ain't go...
Little Rock District FOLKLORE SUBJECTS Name of Interviewer: Irene Robertson Subject: Ex-Slave--History Story:--Information This Information given by: Warren McKinney Place of Resid...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Warren McKinney, Hazen, Arkansas Age: 85 I was born in Edgefield County, South Carolina. I am eighty-five years old. I was bor...
N. C. District: No. 3 [320271] Worker: Travis Jordan Subject: Tempie Herndon Durham Ex-Slave 103 Years Old 1312 Pine St., Durham, N. C. [TR: Date Stamp "AUG 23 1937"] TEMPIE HERNDO...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist. 4 June 10, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "We lived in a log house during the Ku Klux days. Dey would watch you just...
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: AUG 19 1937] MARTHA KING Age 85 yrs. McAlester, Oklahoma "They hung Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree! They hung Jeff Davis to a sour...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Amanda Rosa 817 Schiller Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 82 "I was nine years old in the time of the surrender. I know I was he...
ANDREW GOODMAN, 97, was born a slave of the Goodman family, near Birmingham, Alabama. His master moved to Smith County, Texas, when Andrew was three years old. Andrew is a frail, k...
[HW: Dist. 5 Ex. Slave #118 E. Driskell] SLAVERY AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF HENRY WRIGHT--EX-SLAVE, Age 99 In Atlanta among that ever decreasing group of persons known as ex-slave...
MARY KINCHEON EDWARDS says she was born on July 8, 1810, but she has nothing to substantiate this claim. However, she is evidently very old. Her memory is poor, but she knows she w...
450001 Autobiography of Richard Slaughter (Given by himself as an oral account during an interview between himself and writer, December 27, 1936.) Claude W. Anderson--Hampton, Virg...
Ex-Slaves Stark County, District 5 Aug 13, 1937 WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Ex-Slave Interview with William Williams, 1227 Rex Ave. S.E. Canton, O. "I was born a slave in Caswell County, Nor...
FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT American Guide, (Negro Writers' Unit) Viola B. Muse Jacksonville, Florida March 20, 1937 WILLIS WILLIAMS Willis Williams of 1025 Iverson Street, Jacksonvil...
=Project 1655= =Genevieve W. Chandler= =Georgetown County, S.C.= =FOLKLORE= =EX-SLAVE STORY= =UNCLE WILLIS WILLIAMS= "When wuz I born? Born in August. When I wuz born been August....
Oklahoma Writers' Project Ex-Slaves [Date stamp: AUG 16 1937] ANDREW SIMMS Age 80 Sapulpa, Okla. My parents come over on a slave ship from Africa about twenty year before I was bor...
Project #1655 W. W. Dixon Winnsboro, S. C. ANNE BELL EX-SLAVE 83 YEARS OLD. ~HW: (near Winnsboro, S. C.)~] Anne Bell lives with her niece, in a one-room annex to a two-room frame h...
[HW: Dist. 6 Ex-Slave #80] Mary A. Crawford Re-Search Worker HENRY NIX--Ex-Slave 808 E. Slaton Ave. Griffin, Georgia Interviewed September 24, 1936 [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937] [TR: Nu...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: F. H. Brown 701 Hickory Street, North Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 75 [HW: Builds Church and School] "I was born in Marion County, M...
Project 1885-1 From Field Notes. Spartanburg, Dist. 4 April 29, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage FOLK LORE: FOLK TALES (Negro) "I wuz born in Fairfield, dat is over yonder across Broa...
Velma Bell District #2 Augusta, Ga. EX-SLAVE INTERVIEW Uncle Shang Harris Toccoa, Georgia (Stephens County) "Uncle Shang" Harris, at the age of 97, is more vigorous than many men t...
JANE SUTTON Gulfport, Mississippi Jane Sutton, ex-slave, is 84 years old. She is 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs 130 pounds. She is what the Negroes themselves call a "brown-skin....
Garrard County. Ex-Slave Stories. (Eliza Ison) Interview with Bert Mayfield: Bert Mayfield was born in Garrard County, May 29, 1852, two miles south of Bryantsville on Smith Stone'...
JOHN FINNELY, 86, was born a slave to Martin Finnely, in Jackson Co., Alabama. During the Civil War ten slaves escaped from the Finnely plantation. Their success led John to escape...
Geo. H. Conn, Writer Wilbur C. Ammon, Editor C.R. McLean, District Supervisor June 11, 1937 Folklore Summit County, District #5 ANNA SMITH In a little old rocking chair, sits an ol...