Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Senya Singfield 1613 W. Second Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 74 "I was born in Washington, Virginia right at the foot of th...
Project, 1885-(1) Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place, Marion, S. C. Date, October 21, 1937 SYLVIA DURANT Ex-Slave, 72 Years "Well, I tell you just like it been. Dat was an unexpect...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320160] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 466 Subject: EX-SLAVE STORY Story Teller: George Eatman Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 1 1937"] EX-...
Interviewer: Mrs. Carol Graham Person interviewed: Marion Johnson "Howdy, Missy, glad to see you again. As you sees I'm 'bout wound up on my cotton baskets and now I got these chai...
Interviewer: Carol Graham (Add.) Person interviewed: Marion Johnson El Dorado, Ark. Age: ? "Dar's golden streets and a pearly gate somewhars, Dar's golden streets and a pearly gate...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Matilda Bass 1100 Palm Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 80 "Yes ma'am, I was eight years old when the Old War ceasted. "Honey,...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mattie Fritz, Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 79 "I was born at Duncan, Arkansas. Mother died when I was a baby. Old slavery black 'M...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Millie Taylor 1418 Texas Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 "Yes'm, I was born in slavery times in Calhoun County, Mississipp...
Project 1885-1 FOLKLORE Spartanburg--Dist. 4 May 18, 1937 Edited by: Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EX-SLAVES "White folks. I sho nuff did ride wid de 'Red Shirts' fer Marse Hampton. D...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: William J. Stevens, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: Up in 70's "I was born in Pleasant Hill, Alabama. My owners were Haley and Missour...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Emmett Augasta Byrd, Marianna, Arkansas Age: 83 "I was born in Washington County, Missouri. I'm eighty-three years old. Mothe...
Joana Owens: The following is the life and traditions of Joana Owens, 520 E. Breckinridge St., Louisville, Kentucky, an old negro mammy who was born during slavery. "My mother and...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Mandy Thomas, 13th and Pearl Streets, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 Occupation: Laundress "I know my sister told me I was five w...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mike Thompson, Widener, Arkansas Age: 79 "I was born near Honey Grove, Texas. I remember my grandparents on both sides--they w...
N.C. District: No. 2 Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 901 Subject: EX-SLAVE STORIES Person Interviewed: Ophelia Whitley Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt EX-SLAVE STORIES An Interview by...
Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lacy Person interviewed: Sam Miller, Morrilton, Arkansas Age: 98 "I is ninety-eight years old, suh. My name's Sam Miller, and I was born in Texas in 1840...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Warren Taylor 3200 W. Seventeenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 74 My people are all from Richmond, Virginia. I was just four...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320187] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 382 Subject: JENNYLIN DUNN Person Interviewed: Jennylin Dunn Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: No Date Stamp] JENNYLIN...
Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Joseph Samuel Badgett 1221 Wright Avenue, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 72 [HW: Mother was a Fighter] "My mother had Indian in her. S...
=Project #1655= =W.W. Dixon= =Winnsboro, S.C.= =MARY RAINES= =EX-SLAVE 99 YEARS OLD.= Mary Raines is the oldest living person, white or black, in Fairfield County. If she survives...
SIMP CAMPBELL was born January 1860, in Harrison County, Texas, He belonged to W.L. Sloan and stayed with him until 1883, when Simp married and moved to Marshall. He and his wife l...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: William Harris DeValls Bluff, Ark. Age: 75 or 80 "I was born in Chetam County close to Nashville, Tennessee. Our master was na...
N. C. District: No. 2 [320154] Worker: Mary A. Hicks No. Words: 670 Subject: EX-SLAVE STORY Story Teller: Elbert Hunter Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt [TR: Date Stamp "JUN 1 1937"] EX-...
=Project #-1655= =Phoebe Faucette= =Hampton County= =FOLKLORE= =ELIZA SCANTLING EX-SLAVE= =87 Years= "If you wants to know about de slavery times," said old Aunt Eliza, "you'se sur...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Frozie Moss (dark mulatto), Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 69 "When my grandma whut raised me got free she and grandpa come to Memphi...
N. C. District: No. 3 [320279] Worker: Travis Jordan Subject: Mary Wallace Bowe Ex-slave 81 Years Durham County Home Durham, N. C. [HW: Lovely story about Abraham Lincoln] [TR: Thi...
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: William Lattimore 606 West Pullen Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 "Yes'm I was a slave--I was born in 1859 in Mississippi....
FOLKLORE SUBJECTS [HW: Ex-slave, Texarkana Dist., 9/5/31] Name of Interviewer: Cecil Copeland Subject: Apparition and Will-o'-the-Wisp. Story--Information: Information given by: Pr...
Name of Interviewer: Irene Robertson Subject: Ex-Slave--History This information given by: Jack Boyd Place of Residence: Hazen, Arkansas Occupation: Light jobs now. AGE: 72 [TR: In...
Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Frank Kennedy, Holly Grove, Arkansas Age: 65 or 70? "My parents' name was Hannah and Charles Kennedy. They b'long to Master Jo...