Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2

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United States. Work Projects Administration

Title

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 3

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Produced by Laura Wisewell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division)

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English

LoC Class

E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861)

Subject

African Americans -- Arkansas -- Biography

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Text

eBook-No.

19446

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19446

Release Date

October 3, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber’s Note — SLAVE NARRATIVES A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
2. 2.INFORMANTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS — — — 1937 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Charlie Gadson Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 67 — #771 — Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Dr. D. B. Gaines 1720 Izard Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 75 — Opinions — Interviewer’s Comment — #648 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mary Gaines Brinkley, Arkansas Age: Born 1872 — Interviewer’s Comment — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: William Gant Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 101 — JAN 14 1938 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Mike Genes Holly Grove, Ark. Age: 72 — #653 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Jennie Wormly Gibson Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 49 — #728 — Interviewer: Watt McKinney Person interviewed: James Gill R.F.D. Marvell, Arkansas Age: 86 Occupation: Farmer — Interviewer: Beulah Sherwood Hagg Person interviewed: Mrs. Cora Gillam 1023 Arch Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 86 [Scratching Pacified Master.] — — 11 1938 Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: J. N. Gillespie 1112 Park Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 75 — Occupation of Forefathers — Patrollers — Subject’s Occupation — Slave Houses — Right After the War — Choked on Watermelon Seeds — Leaving Galveston — Interviewer’s Comment — Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Will Glass 715 W. Eighth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 50 Occupation: All phases of paving work [Bit Dog’s Foot Off] — Whippings — Picnics — Whitecaps — Worship — Slave Sales — Opinions — — 13 1937 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Frank William Glenn Des Arc, Arkansas Age: 73 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Ella Glespie Brassfield, Arkansas Age: 71 — Interviewer: Mary D. Hudgins Person Interviewed: Joe Golden Age: 86 Home: 722 Gulpha Street, Hot Springs, Ark. — Interviewer’s note: — FOOTNOTES: — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Jake Goodridge Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 97? 87 is about correct Born August 4, 1857 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: John Goodson (Goodrum) Des Arc, Arkansas Age: Born in 1865 — Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: George Govan Russellville, Arkansas Age: 52 — #712 — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Julia Grace 819 N. Spruce Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 75 — — 11 1938 Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Charles Graham 616 W. 27th Street, North Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 79 [Freed in ’63] — Patrollers — Amusements — Occupations — Right after the War — Little Rock — Opinions — Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: James Graham 408 Maple Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 75 [“Free Negroes”] — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Marthala Grant 2203 E. Barraque, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 77 — #731 — Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Wesley Graves 817 Hickory Street, North Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 70 [Father Taught Night School] — Ku Klux — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Ambus Gray R.F.D. #1. Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 80 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Green Gray R.F.D. #1 Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 70—73? — #666 — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Neely Gray 818 E. Fifteenth, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 87 — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Nely Gray 821 E. 18th Avenue, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 84 Occupation: Does a little quilting — MAY 11 1938 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: “Happy Day” Green Near Barton and Helena, Arkansas Age: Grown during the Civil War — #774 — Interviewer: Watt McKinney Person interviewed: Henry Green Barton, Arkansas Age: 90 — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Frank Greene 2313 Saracen Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78 — MAY 11 1938 Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: George Greene Temporary—1700 Pulaski St., Little Rock, Ark. Permanent—Wrightsville, Ark. Age: 85? — Birth and Age — Parents and Relatives — House and Furniture — Work of Family in Slave Time — Good Master — Work — Share cropping — How Freedom Came — Ku Klux Klan — Occupations Followed and Life Since Freedom — DEC — 1937 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Andrew Gregory Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 74 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Annie Griegg Madison, Arkansas Age: 84 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Persons interviewed: William and Charlotte Guess West Memphis, Arkansas Ages: 68 and 66 — William Guess — Charlotte Guess — INTERVIEWER’S NOTE — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lee Guidon Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 89 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Linley Hadley Madison, Arkansas Age: 77 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Anna Hall (mulatto) Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 68 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Ellie Hamilton (male) Clarendon, Arkansas Age: — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Josephine Hamilton Hazen, Arkansas Age: 77
4. 4.FOLKLORE SUBJECTS — Little Rock District — Arkansas Name of Interviewer: Irene Robertson Subject: HERBS—CURES & REMEDIES, ETC. Story—Information (If not enough space on this page add page)
5. 5.FOLKLORE SUBJECTS — Pine Bluff District — Name of Interviewer: Martin—Pettigrew Subject: Negro Customs Story—Information (If not enough space on this page add page) — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lawrence Hampton R.F.D., Forrest City, Arkansas Age: 78 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Hannah Hancock Biscoe, Arkansas? Age: Past 80
6. 6.FOLKLORE SUBJECTS — Little Rock District — Name of Interviewer: Irene Robertson Subject: Spells—Voodoo— Story—Information (If not enough space on this page add page) — Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Julia E. Haney 1320 Pulaski Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 78 — Good Masters — Family — Separation of Parents — Patrollers — Jayhawkers — Really Scared to Death — Mother’s Work — Schooling — How Freedom Came — House, Furniture, and Food — Further Details about Schooling — Later Life — Interviewer’s Comment — Interviewer: Pernella M. Anderson Person interviewed: Rachel Hankins El Dorado, Arkansas Age: 88 — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Mary Jane Hardridge 1501 West Barraque St., Pine Bluff, Ark. Age: 85 — #748 — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Mary Jane Hardrige 1501 W. Barraque, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 79 — Interviewer: Pernella Anderson Person Interviewed: O. C. Hardy El Dorado, Ark. Age: 69 — #658 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Rosa Hardy Biscoe, Arkansas Age: ? — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ida Harper 819 West Pullen Street; Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 93
7. 7.FOLKLORE SUBJECTS — Name of interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Subject: Signs and Superstitions Story—Information (If not enough space on this page, add page)
8. 8.FOLKLORE SUBJECTS — Name of interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Subject: Games of Pre-War Days Story—Information (If not enough space on this page, add page) — #776 — Interviewer: Watt McKinney Person Interviewed: Abram Harris Marvell, Arkansas, (6 miles west) Age: 93 — MAY 31 1938 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Betty Harris Brinkley, Arkansas Age: About 45 or 50? — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Mary Harris 713 N. Plum Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 82 — DEC 21 1937 Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Rachel Harris 816½ E. Fifth, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 90
9. 9.FOLKLORE SUBJECTS — Little Rock District — Name of Interviewer: Irene Robertson Subject: TALES , Superstitions and Charms Story—Information (If not enough space on this page add page) — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: William Harris DeValls Bluff, Ark. Age: 75 or 80 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: William H. Harrison Forrest City, Arkansas Age: Over 100 — Interviewer’s Comment — Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person Interviewed: Laura Hart Eleventh & Orange St., Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85 — #715 — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Hatty Haskell 1416 W. Pullen, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85 — #786 — Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Matilda Hatchett 424 W. Twenty-Fifth Street, North Little Rock, Arkansas Age: Between 98 and 100 — Dresses — Houses — Soldiers — Schooling — Father’s Children Freed Before Emancipation — Wants to See Her People — Age — Occupation — #657 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: John G. Hawkens Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 71 — Interviewer’s Comment — #656 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lizzie Hawkens Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 65 — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Becky Hawkins 717 Louisiana Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 75 — #733 — Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: G. W. Hawkins 1114 Appianway, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 73 — Living Conditions during and Immediately after Slavery — Furniture — Stoves — Food in General (Slaves) — Clothes — Patrollers — Ku Klux Influence on Negroes — Slave Breeding — Slave Tasks and Hours of Work — Wages just after Freedom — This Matter of Slave Clothes Again — Slave Schooling — How Freedom Came — First Crop after Freedom — Opinions — Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Eliza Hays 2215 W. Twentieth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 77 or more — Occupation — Slave Houses — Mean Masters — Marriage — Amusement and Recreation — Breeders — Ku Klux, Patrollers, Robbers — Opinions — Support and Later life — — 1- 1937 Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Tom Haynes 1110 W. Second Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: — #782 — Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person Interviewed: Joe Haywood 2207 West Eleventh Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 76 — #737 — Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Marie E. Hervey 1520 Pulaski Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 62 — MAY 11 1938 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Phillis Hicks Edmondson, Arkansas Age: 71
10. 10.EX-SLAVES — Interviewer: Pernella Anderson Hicks, Will — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Bert Higgins 611 Missouri Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 88 — #790 FORM A — Circumstances of Interview — #790 FORM B — Personal History of Informant — #790 FORM C — Text of Interview (Unedited) — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Clark Hill 715 E. 17th Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 82 — #665 — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Clark Hill 818 E. Fifteenth Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 84
11. 11.FOLKLORE SUBJECTS — #665 — Name of interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Subject: Humorous Story Story—Information (If not enough space on this page, add page)
12. 12.FOLKLORE SUBJECTS — #665 — Name of interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Subject: Superstitions Story—Information (If not enough space on this page, add page) — Interviewer: Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Elmira Hill 1220 North Willow Pine Bluff, Ark. Age: 97 — #787 — Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Gillie Hill 813 Arch Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: About 45 — Interviewer’s Comment — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Harriett Hill Forrest City, Ark. (Visiting at Brinkley, Ark.) Age: 84 — MAY 11 1938 Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Hattie Hill Route 2, Main Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85 — OCT 18 19— Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Oliver Hill 1101 Kentucky Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 94 — MAY 31 1938 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Rebecca Brown Hill Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 78 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Tanny Hill Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 56? No record of age — Interviewer’s Comment — Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Elizabeth Hines 1117 W. Fourteenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 70 — House, Furniture and Food — Opinions
13. 13.FOLKLORE SUBJECTS — Pine Bluff District — Name of interviewer: Martin—Barker Subject: Ex-Slave Story: — Interviewer: Bernice Bowden. Person interviewed: Charlie Hinton (c) Age: 89 Home: Old River Road—Pine Bluff, Ark. — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ben Hite 1515 Ohio Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 74 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Betty Hodge Hazen, Ark. Age: 63 — #647 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Minnie Hollomon R.F.D., Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 75
14. 14.FOLKLORE SUBJECTS — Name of Interviewer—S. S. Taylor Person interviewed—H. B. Holloway (Dad or Pappy) Story: — Birth, Parentage — Marriage, Breeding, Weddings, Separations — Slave Sales — Houses, Food, Clothes — Ages — Amusements — Christmas — Run-Away Slaves — Pateroles — Good Masters — Mean Masters — Mixed Bloods — Curious Beliefs and Slave Expectations of Freedom — Lincoln’s Visit to Atlanta — Grant’s Attitude — Schooling, Antebellum and Postbellum — Share Cropping — Didn’t Want To Be Free — Riots and KKK — Hoodoo — Opinions of Young People — Relatives — — 29 1938 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Pink Holly Holly Grove, Arkansas Age: 70 — Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Dora Holmes (light brown) 1500 Valentine St., Little Rock, Ark. Age: 60? Occupation: Housewife — Interviewer’s Comments — MAY 31 1938 Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Elijah Henry Hopkins 1308½ Ringo Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 81 — How the Little Children Were Fed — Patrollers — Reading and Writing in Slave Time — Slave Occupation and Wages — How Freedom Came — Memories of Soldiers and the War — ‘Shin Plasters’ — Schooling — Politics — Care of Old People — Opinion of the Present — Occupation and Present Support of Hopkins — FOOTNOTES: — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Nettie Hopson Helena (home—Poplar Grove), Arkansas Age: ? — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Molly Horn Holly Grove, Arkansas Age: 77 — #773 — Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Cora L. Horton 918 W. Ninth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: Between 50 and 60? — Omit Interviewer’s Comment — Name of interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: Laura House Russellville, Arkansas Age: 75? — NOV 30 1936 Mrs. Mildred Thompson Mrs. Carol Graham El Dorado District Ex-Slave—Hoodoo—Haunted Houses — Interviewer: Carol Graham Person Interviewed: Pinkie Howard (Add) El Dorado, Ark. Age: ? — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Josephine Howell Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 72 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Pauline Howell Nickname Pearl Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 65 or 70? — JAN 29 1938 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Molly Hudgens DeValls Bluff, Arkansas Age: Born in 1868 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Charlie Huff Brinkley, Arkansas Age: Born 1864 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Louvenia Huff Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 64 — Interviewer: Mary D. Hudgins Person Interviewed: Mrs. Anna Huggins Home: Pleasant at John Street. — Interviewer: Mrs. Annie L. LaCotts Person interviewed: Margret Hulm, Humphrey, Arkansas Age: 97 (Story of Abraham Lincoln as a spy) — Interviewer: S. S. Taylor Person interviewed: John Hunter 3200 W. 17th Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 74 — Biographical — Houses — Tent Harbors — Food — Father and Mother — Patrollers — What the Freedmen Expected — How Freedom Came — Runaways and Mean Masters — Sales and Separations — School — What the Slaves Got — Ku Klux Klan — Mother’s Occupation — Own Occupation — Opinions of Young People — Praying Under Pots — Voting — Mulattoes — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: William Hunter, Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 70 — MAY 11 1938 Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Ida Blackshear Hutchinson 2620 Orange Street, North Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 73 — Birth — Parents and Grandparents — Luke Blackshear (Breeder) — Isom Blackshear — Suicide — Death of Sixty Babies — Experiences just after the War — Patrollers — Ku Klux Klan — How Freedom Came — Leaving Alabama — Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Cornelia Ishmon 3319 W. Second Avenue Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 78
15. 15.FOLKLORE SUBJECTS — El Dorado District Name of interviewer: Mildred Thompson & Carol Graham. Subject: Uncle Jack Island—Ex-Slave. Story—Information (If not enough space on this page add page) — #792 FORM A — Circumstances of Interview — #792 FORM B — Personal History of Informant — #792 FORM C — Text of Interview (Unedited) — Interviewer: Pernella M. Anderson Person interviewed: Mary Island 626 Nelson Street, El Dorado, Arkansas Age: 80 — Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Henrietta Isom, Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 81

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