Slave Narratives : A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves

By Ball, Andrea

Book Id: WPLBN0000619460
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Slave Narratives : A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
Author:	Ball, Andrea
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: ?I was born in Chickashaw County, Mississippi. Ely Abbott and Maggie Abbott was our owners. They had three girls and two boys?Eddie and Johnny. We played together till I was grown. I loved em like if they was brothers. Papa and Mos Ely went to war together in a two?horse top buggy. They both come back when they got through. ?There was eight of us children and none was sold, none give way. My parents name Peter and Mahaley Abbott. My father never was sold but my mother was sold into this Abbott family for a house girl. She cooked and washed and ironed. No'm, she wasn?t a wet nurse, but she tended to Eddie and Johnny and me all alike. She whoop them when they needed, and Miss Maggie whoop me. That the way we grow?d up. Mos Ely was ?ceptionly good I recken. No'm, I never heard of him drinkin? whiskey. They made cider and ?simmon beer every year.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former -- Slaves, 1 -- Work Projects Administration, 1 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person Interviewed: Silas Abbott, 6 -- Interviewer: Watt McKinney. Person interviewed: Lucian Abernathy, Marvell, 6 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Laura Abromsom, 8 -- Interviewer's Comment, 9 -- Interviewer: Mrs. Zillah Cross Peel. Person interviewed: ?Aunt Adeline?, 9 -- Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden. Person interviewed: Rose Adway, 12 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Liddie Aiken, Wheatley, 13 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person Interviewed: Mattie Aldridge, 14 -- Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor. Person Interviewed: Amsy O. Alexander, 15 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Diana Alexander, 16 -- Interviewer's Comment, 17 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Fannie Alexander, 17 -- Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor. Person interviewed: Lucretia Alexander, 18 -- Interviewer's Comment, 21 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Ed Allen, Des Arc, Ark, 21 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Lucindy Allison, 21 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Charles Anderson, 23 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Nancy Anderson, 24 -- Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor. Person interviewed: R.B. Anderson, 25 -- Interviewer's Comment, 26 -- Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden. Person interviewed: Sarah Anderson, 27 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Selie Anderson, Holly, 27 -- Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor. Person interviewed: W.A. Anderson (dark, 28 -- Interviewer's Comments, 29 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Henry Anthony; R.F.D, 29 -- Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden. Person interviewed: Katie Arbery, 30 -- Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor. Person interviewed: Campbell Armstrong, 31 -- Interviewer: Pernella Anderson, colored, 35 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Lillie Baccus, Madison, 35 -- Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor. Person interviewed: Joseph Samuel Badgett, 36 -- Interviewer's Comment, 38 -- Interviewer: Mary D. Hudgins. Person Interviewed: James Baker Aged: 81, 42 -- Interviewer: R.S. Taylor. Person Interviewed: Uncle William Baltimore, 44 -- Interviewer: Pernella M. Anderson. Person interviewed: Mose Banks, 45 -- Interviewer: S. S. Taylor. Person interviewed: Henry Banner, 46 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: John W. H. Barnett, 48 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Josephine Ann Barnett, 48 -- Interviewer: Mrs. Rosa B. Ingram. Person interviewed: Lizzie Barnett; Conway, 50 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Spencer Barnett (blind), 51 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Emma Barr, Madison, 53 -- Interviewer: S.S. Taylor. Person interviewed: Robert Barr, 54 -- Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden. Person interviewed: Matilda Bass, 55 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Emmett Beal, Biscoe, 56 -- Interviewer: Pernella Anderson, colored, 57 -- Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson. Person interviewed: Annie Beck, West, 57 -- Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves -- i