Manuscript/Mixed Material Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer
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Image 1 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer SLAVE NARRATIVES- Date: 1936
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Image 2 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer SLAVE NARRATIVES A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS PROJECT 19361938 ASSEMBLED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT...- Date: 1936
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Image 3 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer V VOLUME II ARKANSAS NARRATIVES PAST 5 Prepared by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Arkansas- Date: 1936
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Image 4 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer INFORMANTS McClendon Charlie 1 47 McCloud Lizzie 9 McConico Avalena 13 McCoy Ike McDaniel Richard E 15 17 Mclntosh Waters 25 Mack Cresa 2730 McKinney Warren 32 McMullen Victoria 39 Madden Nannie...- Date: 1936
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Image 5 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer Perry Dinah Peters Alfred Peters Mary Estes Peterson John Pettis Louise Pettus Henry C Phillips Dolly Piggy Tony 318320 322 323 332 334 338 344 345 Pittman Ella Pittman Sarah Poe Mary...- Date: 1936
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Image 6 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 0 r M Interviewer Mrs Bernice Bowden Person interviewed Age Charlie MeClendon 708 S Fourth Avenue Pine Bluff Arkansas 77 I donft know exactly how old I am war ended I was...- Date: 1936
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Image 7 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 2 My father run off and stay in the woods one or two months master say Old f Now Jordan ishy you run off Now Ifm goin1 to give you a light...- Date: 1936
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Image 8 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 3 The White people have treated ma very well but they donft pay us enough for our work just enough to live on and hardly that I can say with a clear...- Date: 1936
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Image 9 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer Interviewer Mrs Bernice Bowden Person interviewed Lizzie McCloud 1203 Short 13th Street 9 Pine Bluff Arkansas Agfi 120 7 I was one of fem bless your heart wouldnft tell you a lie...- Date: 1936
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Image 10 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 2 Overseer whipped us too and he was a good man Marse John had a brother named Marse Andrew He9d say to the overseer Now dont whip these girls so much they...- Date: 1936
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Image 11 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 3 No Missy I never went to no school me nothin White folks never learned I believes In tellin1 white folks the truth White folks didnt flow us to marry so I...- Date: 1936
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Image 12 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer f0 f o Interviewer Mrs Bemioe Bowden Person interviewed ________ Isie IfoCloud 1203 E Short 13th Street Pine Bluff Arlcansas Age 105 Well where you been I been wonderin bout you Yes...- Date: 1936
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Image 13 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer dollflTE crasy MBS bofter ifcwrW Prwrtmn fertags it vl EX ZbB hassmm Wbmj tamfes aa i o What 1 eons Inso I aaia on jNtai C3aytoo sad lie BUS a good ablio...- Date: 1936
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Image 14 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer mm 3S 3 me want sr d ii ar it kite She sel cans e that tiiis ao aevar r- Date: 1936
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Image 15 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer m and oY r lasrro Itaa four 1 mmm let StXWge iBsssfey JKte in the Hill a fe to the sio fe Hi vtiuci ww mid and to Ufit Iserm ttfcn o...- Date: 1936
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Image 16 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 5 She said on the way they passed some children They was playing A little white boy was up in a persiaraon tree sett inf on a limb eating persimmons Ke was...- Date: 1936
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Image 17 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer v rer v6rs fabe diNdl WFiaNswl N I m Vtf i rJiwir fcorr ir thar and te4d34iK 1awBkmB ma 3f or ftlx rad tmjbte o mast ifem 6WteiHfcn sttlgM r oic C...- Date: 1936
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Image 18 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer VI Ma said every now and then see somebody going back to that man tried to get rid of them They traveled by night and beg along from blaok folks In daytime...- Date: 1936
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Image 19 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 14 I m getting feebler every year I see that Tiaes goiner be hard ag in this winter and neaefc spring Money is soaroe now for sunnier tine and craps laid by...- Date: 1936
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Image 20 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer Interviewer Person interviewed Age Mlaa Ir o Robertaen Richard H MoDaaJLel Brlnkley Arkansas 5 I was born in Hewton County Mississippi the first year of the surrender never sold I dont think...- Date: 1936
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Image 21 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer I famed up till 1029 Ikes J been doing j b j worked on relief till they turned me off said I was QJ old to worktut they wont give as the...- Date: 1936
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Image 22 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 30959 17 Interviewer Sanaa S Taylor Person interviewed Age Watera Mclntoah 1900 Howard Street Little Bock Arkansaa 76 I was born July 4 1862 at 208 in the morning at Lynchburg Sumter...- Date: 1936
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Image 23 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer Bow Freedom Game My mother said that they had been waiting a long time to hear what had become of the War perhaps one or two weeks One day when they were...- Date: 1936
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Image 24 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer in the big house dont make a big pocket under your dress and put a sack of coffee and a sack of sugar and other things you want in it9 They took...- Date: 1936
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Image 25 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 4 square around the house the Negro quarters were 1 enclosed so that the litves could not get out e arents were at CL JL J Nekroes assembled e A i N...- Date: 1936
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Image 26 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer v 21 Uaivying Time I remember one night the people were gone to marry That was when all the people in the community married immediately after slavery Coats We had an open...- Date: 1936
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Image 27 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer They left home and stayed together The Ku Klux very seldom interfered with a woman or a child They often scared colored people by drinking large quantities of water They had something...- Date: 1936
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Image 28 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 7 A man named Boyle told me that he had some ground to sell up 45 the price he asked for It he had decided not to sell it When I offered...- Date: 1936
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Image 29 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer e Interviewer1 s Comment Brother Mack as he is familiarly and affectionately known to his friends is a man keen and vigorous 9 mentally and physically He attends Sunday school church both...- Date: 1936
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Image 30 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 0 Interviewer Mrs Bernlce Bowden Person interviewed Age Cresa Mack 1417 Short Indiana St Pine Bluff Ark 85 I can tell you something about slavery days South Bend Arkansas on the old...- Date: 1936
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Image 31 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer One time I was tot inv water for the woman what did the washing I was goin along the road and seed some thin1 up in a tree that look like a...- Date: 1936
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Image 32 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer iU ittc oliDi 27 Interviewer Miss Irene Bobertaon Person interviewed Age Warren McKinney Hazen Arkansas 85 I was horn in Edgefield County South Carolina five years old I am eighty I was...- Date: 1936
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Image 33 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer Lots of de colored people nearly starved not much house room Not much to get to do and Several families had to live in one house Lots of the colored folks went...- Date: 1936
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Image 34 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 3 I first had 300 acres at Carlisle I sold it and bought 80 acres at Green Grove I married in South Carolina home weddin Each of our families furnished the weddin...- Date: 1936
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Image 35 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer Little Book Distriot 80566 FOLKLORE SUBJECTS Name of Interviewer Irene Robertson Subject Ex Sljate History Story Information if not enough space on this page add page Warren McKinney was born in Edgefield...- Date: 1936
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Image 36 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 31 He saw five or six coffins piled up on a wagon being taken out to be buried He thought it was changing houses and changing ways of living They didnt have...- Date: 1936
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Image 37 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 30623 Interviewer Person interviewed Aae 54 Samuel a Taylor Victoria Mcttiillen 1416 5 Valmar Little Rock Arkansas Occupation Seamstress ly mother was born March 16 1865 and knew nothing of slavery Both...- Date: 1936
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Image 38 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer a The eastern states sold their slaves to the southern states and got all the money then they freed the slaves and that left the South without anything Grandma Katy had Greek...- Date: 1936
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Image 39 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer s When they freed the Negroes it broke him up completely a f bigtodo1 in his life but he wasnH nothing then Be had been called Be owned Grandma Katy n Grandma...- Date: 1936
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Image 40 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 5, McClendon-Prayer 4 her twin was a boy named June and her name was Hetty brother to be a driver for him Her master kept her She was sent from Virginia to Louisiana to...- Date: 1936