Manuscript/Mixed Material Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant
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Image 1 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant SLAVE NARRATIVES A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews ivith Former Slaves TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS PROJECT 19361938 ASSEMBLED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 2 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant VOLUME XIV SOUTH CAROLINA NARRATIVES PART 1 Prepared by the Federal Writers1 Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of South Carolina- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 3 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant INFORMANTS Abrams M E Adaras Ezra Adams Mary Adams Victoria Adamson Frank Andrews Frances Arthur Pete 1 5 9 10 13 1718 19 Bacchus Josephine 20 Ballard William 26 Barber Charley 29…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 4 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant Project 1885 1 Prom field Notes District No 4 April 27 1937 QAj OSWJ Edited by Elmer iurnage IOLK LORE IOLK TALES Negro f I j c V Marse Glenn had 64…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 5 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant POLK LORE POLK TALES Negro Page Z 2 Dem things bees light on dark nights de shines de self jes like dese lectric lights does out dar in dat street ever night…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 6 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant FOLK LORE Folk Tales Negro Page 3 3 Doc never even knowed nothin bout it Marse had done got to countin his hogs ever week When he cotch us us wuz all…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 7 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant fOLK LORE FOLK TALES Negro Page 4 4 He went to bed A dog feegan running down dem steps and a black cat run across de room dat turned to white befo…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 8 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant Project 1655 Henry Grant Columbia S C 390400 REFLECTIONS OP EZRA ADAI EXSLAVE 85 YEARS OLD Ezra Adams is incapable of selfsupport owing to ill health He is very well taken care…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 9 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant 2 and all them things good I believes a person loves more better when they feels I knows from experience dat poor folks feels better when they has food in deir frame…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 10 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant is almost terrible White man ddre is too many peoples in dese big towns and cities is more of them than dere is jobs to make a livinf wid Dere When some…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 11 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant f Is de colored people superstitious Listen at dat You makes me laugh All dat foolishness fust started wid de Mack man De reason they is supersti tious comes from nothin1 but…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 12 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant Project 1885 1 Folk Lore District Ho 4 May 27 1937 OOnnQQ OOUUOO Edited by j j Murray q EXSIAVE STORIES Aunt Mary Adams was swinging easily back and forth in the…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 13 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant Project 1655 Everett R Pierce Columbia St C Ai XU QQfiOQQ OaUOO VICTORIA ADAMS EXSLAVE 90 YEARS OLD You ask me to tell you something fbout myself and de slaves in slavery…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 14 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant 11 they had to whip me I members she used to whip me every time she tell me to do something and I take too long to move long and do it…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 15 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant Missus Martha sho did look after de slaves good when they was sick Us had medicine made from herbs leaves and roots some of them was catrnip garlic root tansy and roots…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 16 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant Project 1655 13 390315 TU W Dimon vwvw JV Winnsboro S C FRMK ADAMSGN EXSIAVE 82 YEARS OLD n I members when you was barefoot at de bottom now X see you…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 17 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant 214 n fy pappy was bought from de Adamson peoplesj they say they got him off de ship from Africa He she1 was a man he run all de other niggers way…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 18 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant sw See them big rock columns down dere now grandness and greatness de backyards Dts all dats left of his They done move de whippin1 post dat was in Yes sah it…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 19 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant 1Q Ify young marsters was Austin Tom and Nicholas they was all right fcept they tease you too hard maybe some time and wfct to mix in wid de f fairs of…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 20 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant project 18851 1 ty JOBKLORE 390117 Spartanburg Disti4 June 10 1937 Edited by Elmer Turnage STORIES IROM EXSLAVES I was born in Newberry CountySC near Belfast about 1854 I was a slave…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 21 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant Project 18851 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist4 Sept 22 1937 390241 UVJ Edited by 4Q Elmer Turnage AO STORIES FROM EXSLA7ES n I live in a comfortable tworoom cottage which my son owns I…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 22 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant WvAvV K 390084 Project 18861 Folklore Spartanburg SC District No 4 May 27 1937 Eiited by RV Williams u s iT VV Folk Lore Folk Tales negro 11 1 was bout nine…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 23 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant Code Ho Project 1SS51 Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place Marion SO Date January 193 No WftesRedueed from Rewritten by words e l 20 JOSEPHINE BACCHUS ExSlave 75SO Years 390413 No my…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 24 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant Ho Words Reduced frotn Rewritten by Oode No Project 1SS51 Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place Marion 80 Date January k 1938 words Page 2 21 coolin board dat what dey used…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 25 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant No Words Reduced froni Rewritten by Code No Project 1SS51 Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place Marion SC Date January k 1938 words Page 3 A 22 most all de way en…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 26 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant Code No Project 1651 Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place Marion SC Date January k 1938 No Words Reduced from Rewritten by words _____ Page 4 i t Noum I never didn…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 27 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant No Words Reduced from_ Rewritten by Oode Ho Project 1S851 Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place Marion SO Date January k 1938 words Page 5 24 cared for by a mother en…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 28 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant No Words Reduced from Rewritten by Code No Project 1S85U Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis Place Marion SC Date January 4 193S he a fine lookin bird too words Page b Yesfum…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 29 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant Project 18851 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist4 June 14 1937 QniC3 waui00 Edited by Elmer Turnage STORIES IROM EXSLAVES I was born near Winnsboro SC airfield County I was twelve years old the year…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 30 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant Folklore Stories Irom ExSlaves Page Z Qjy The hands got their rations every Monday night They got their clothes to wear which they made on old spinning wheels and wove them themselves…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 31 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant folklore stories From Exslaves Page 3 po Slaves carried news from one plantation to another by riding mules or horses They had to be in quarters at night I remember my mother…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 32 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant Project 1655 wwCi3C0 S C Winnsboro c 390264 CHAR1BY BARBER EXSIAVE 81 YEARS OLD Charley Barber Jives in a shanty kind of house situated on a plot of ground containing two acres…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 33 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant h dat 13aggie Rubbing his hands his eyes shining with pleasure look and make another guess Seventyfive Take another You is growin warm but youTll have to come againI n Bless your…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 34 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant 3 Yes sir they my pappy and mamay was just smuggled in dis part of de world I bet youl War come on ray marster went out as a captain of de…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 35 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant 4 gonna have money in de back of her head when her pick out a man to marry Her gonna want a man wid muscles on his arms and back and I…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 36 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant sV low part of town set on de railroad track in de moonlight all night I was mighty aleepy de nexf mornin but I work on de railroad track just de same…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 37 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant Project 1655 fc 390341 34 SD BARBER EXSIAVE 77 YEARS QW Ed Barber lives in a small oneroom house in the midst of a cotton field on the plantation of lar A…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 38 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant M from Flint Hill over de Pea Ferry road a mile long did a big business dat day 35 De barrooms of de tovm Seem lak it was de fashion to git…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 39 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant 36 rny color went to Ho black nigger welcome dere they told me Thinkin as how I was bright fnough to git in I up and goes dere one Sunday they did…- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 40 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant 37 sor Benjamin Russell at Blackstock You knows him Then dere vas Ouillah Harrison dat own a fourhoss team and a saddle hoss in red shirt days a time de brass band…- Date: 1936-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 1, Abrams-Durant
Headings
- - United States -- South Carolina
- - Interviews
Genre
- Interviews
Notes
- - Includes narratives by Albert Carolina, Alice Duke, Anderson Bates, Andy Brice, Anne Bell, Anne Broome, Bouregard Corry, C.B. Burton, Caleb Craig, Caroline Bevis, Charley Barber, Charlie Davis, Dinah Cunningham, Ed Barber, Elias Dawkins, Ezra Adams, Frances Andrews, Frank Adamson, George Ann Butler, George Briggs, Gordon Bluford, Granny Cain, Hagar Brown, Heddie Davis, Henry Brown, Henry Coleman and His Wife, Evvie, Henry Davis, Isabella Dorroh, Isaiah Solbert(?) Butler, Jane Bradley, Jesse Davis, John Boyd, John C. and Adeline Brown, John Collins, John Davenport, Josephine Bacchus, Josephine Bristow, Laura Caldwell, Laurence Downing, Lizzie Davis, Louisa Collier, Louisa Davis, Lucy Daniels, Maggie Black, Margaret Bryant, Maria Cleland, Mary Adams, Mary Frances Brown, Millie Barber, Millie Bates, Moses Davenport, Mrs. M. E. Abrams, Nelson Cameron, Pete Arthur, Peter Clifton, Rev. Tuff Coleman, Samuel Boulware, Sara Brown, Savilla Burrell, Silva Durant, Silvia Chisolm, Solbert Butler, Solomon Caldwell, Sylvia Cannon, Sylvia Durant, Thomas Campbell, Thomas Dixon, Tom Chisolm, Victoria Adams, Wallace Davis, Washington Dozier, Welcome Bees, Will Dill, William Ballard, William Henry Davis.
- - Interviews were conducted by Annie Ruth Davis, Augustus Ladson, Caldwell Simms, Cassels R. Tiedeman, Everett Pierce, F. S. DuPre, G. Leland Summer, H. Grady Davis and Mrs. Lucille Young, Henry Grant, Jessie A. Butler, Martha S. Pickney, Mrs. Genevieve W. Chandler, Phoebe Faucette, Stiles M. Scruggs, and W. W. Dixon.
- - Interviews were conducted in Adams Run, Brittons Neck, Charleston, Claussens, Columbia, Conway, Estill, Florence, Gaffney, Georgetown County, Greenwood, Lena, Luray, Marion, Murrells Inlet, Murrell's Inlet, Newberry, Pomaria, Rion, Spartanburg, Timmonsville, Union, White Oak, Whitmire, and Winnsboro, South Carolina.
Medium
- 351 pages
Source Collection
- Federal Writer's Project, United States Work Projects Administration (USWPA)
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