Manuscript/Mixed Material Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young
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Image 1 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young 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…
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Image 2 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young VOLUME XIV SOUTH CAROLINA NARRATIVES PART 4 Prepared by the Federal Writers1 Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of South Carolina
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Image 3 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young INFORMANTS Raines Mary Range Frank Rawls Sara Renwick Ellen Rice Anne Rice Jessie Rice Phillip Richardson Martha Riley Mamie Riser Susie Roberts Isom Robertson Alexander Robinson Charlie Rosboro Al Rosboro Tom Rosborough…
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Image 4 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Project 1665 W W Dixon Winnsboro S C QQmrl i OOUOJU MARY RAINES BCSLAVE 99 YEARS OLD Mary Raines is the oldest living person white or black in Fair field County If…
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Image 5 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Tell her I name her Mary for her but I spects some folks11 call her Polly1 just lak they call your mama Follyf W I was a strong gal went to de…
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Image 6 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Project 935 Hattie Mobley Kiehland County FRANK HANOB CIVIL rAH 3FRVANT and HERO At the age of one hundred and three Prank Range is a familiar figure on the streets of Greenville…
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Image 7 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young ff 4 and headache are unknown to him the service of a physician has never been needed he does not know one playing card from another He can alk five or ore…
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Image 8 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young References Mr Guy A Qullick Probate Judge Greenville County Frank Hange information given concerning himself 101 iiudson St Oreenville 3 C
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Image 9 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young project 18851 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist4 June 15 1937 QniC OCfUlOO Edited by gv Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EXSLAVES r I was born in 1835 in Lexington County aC I know I was…
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Image 10 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young folklore Stories Prom ExSlaves Page 2 V 6 Lots of hunting round dere dey hunted rabbits squirrels foxes and possums Dey fished like dey do now De white folks had old brick…
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Image 11 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Project 18851 folklore Spartanburg Dist4 390388 vw Edited b iy Elmer Tufriage Oct 13 1937 STORIES PROM EXSLAVES n I live wid my fourth wife and she is much younger dan me…
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Image 12 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Stories From xSlaves Page g River where dey camped one night Den dey turned me loose and told me to git I run as fast as I could I followed de setting…
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Image 13 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Project 1885 1rrojecc xooo ISpartanburg SC District vr4 May 31 1937 nn1 r 39ulUJ wwww Edited wj a by Martha Ritter f FOLKLORE EXSLAVES I was born on Capt Jolin P Kinards…
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Image 14 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Project 1885 1Spartanburg SC June 7 1937 03UI13 jQ POLKLORJi 3XSLAVES 11 1 was born in Spartanburg County SC near Glenn Springs I cant fmember slavery or de war but my ma…
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Image 15 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young 2 m Shen we got sick all the medicine we took was turpentine dat would cure almost any ailment Some of the niggers used Sampson snake weed or peach leaves boiled and…
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Image 16 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young project 18851 Folklore Spartanburg Dist4 Jan 17 1937 Edited by j2 Elmer Turnae STORIES FROM EXSLAVES My Deople tells me a lot about when I was a lil wee boy I has…
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Image 17 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Stories Prom ExSlaves 2 _ 13 Folks allus crying hard times dese days ainft no hard times now like it was atter Sherman went through Yorkville My ma and pa give me…
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Image 18 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Stories Prom EXSlaves 3 Den de Confederate soldiers started coming across Broad River Befo dey got home word had done got round dat our folks had surrendered but dem Yankees never fit…
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Image 19 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Stories From ExSlaves 4 _ 15 about him in de Yorkville Inquirer and dey still has dat paper over dar till now De Red Shirts come along and got Wade Hampton in…
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Image 20 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Stories from ExSlaves 5 16 over and puke in a gully De buzzards would stay in dat gully and lap up dem drunkards puke One night a old man went in a…
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Image 21 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young project 18851 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist4 June 15 1937 STORIES filCA ooujof mom Edited by Elmer Turnage EXSLAVES I m living on Mr JBuSsel Emmitts place I never did nothing but drive cows…
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Image 22 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young folklore Stories From ExSlaves Page 2 and barley and I aint said nothing bout de bottom corn dat laid in de cribs from year to year Our smokehouse was allus full o…
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Image 23 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Project 1655 Stiles M Seruggs WMn coitaia s c 390352 19 THE POT OF GOLD Martha Richardson who tells this story lives at 924 Senate Street Columbia S C Her father was…
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Image 24 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young 2 we would be way head of what we is and my brudders say so too But we fond of our daddy he so good lookin and all What de most citin…
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Image 25 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young 3 21 n It was no sooner out than we takes off de lid and we is shof s1 prised at what we see Big silver dollars lay all over de top…
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Image 26 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young 22 after strugglin most of ay young life and gittin no learnin1 at school dat I sometimes sing my maamyf8 old song runnin1 somethin laic dis 1 Possum up de siamon tree…
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Image 27 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young r fS rr I 4 V V V r M Pro ject 1655 Phoebe Faucette Hampton County Approx 416 words MAMIE RILEY ExSlave Aunt Mamies hair is entirely white She lives in…
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Image 28 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Project 1655 Phoebe Faucette iiarapton County comin Page 2 Deres de fever in heahl Six of em cone to de doorj but dey say dey aint goin in dey111 catch de fever…
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Image 29 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young project 18851 FOLKLORE Spartanburg Dist4 May 24 1937 3900SO Edited by Elmer Turnage STORIES FROM EXSLAVES I was born near Broad River in de Dutch Fork of Newberry County I was a…
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Image 30 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Project 1655 Henry Grant Columbia S C 390354 ISOM ROBERTS EXSLAVE 80 YEARS OLD Isom Roberts rents one room at 1226 Waverly Street Columbia S C and lives alone However frail he…
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Image 31 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young 2 a big sack of money what they had made for him end told them dat he was gwine to kill all of them befo1 de Yankees set them free and that…
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Image 32 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young 28 seme as any other day rt 3ut Boss if my old marster was rough and hard and break de Sabbath and all dat he was no worser than what young white…
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Image 33 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young 4 cause they oat cackled scratched and wallowed holes in de yard and wouldnt lay oid de old rooster many times dat she was gwine to chop his head off if he…
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Image 34 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young 5 them now I is so hungry 30
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Image 35 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Project 1655 W W Dixon 39QP44 VSM ALEXJU ER ROBERTSON KfrSIAVE 84 YEARS OLD Alexander Robertson lives as a member of the household of his son Charley on the General Bratton plantation…
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Image 36 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young wid dat would be ray master today cause him lak hound dogs and I lak a Dat kind of breed got a good nose and make good fpossum dog hound dog Marster…
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Image 37 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young 3 33 it in dat court house over yonder never took it in dat jail or dat calaITs paid ray debts dollar for dollar and owe no man nothin1 but good boose…
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Image 38 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young 34 seven chillun Alex datfs de one name for me is in Tampa Florida Carrie marry a Coleman and is in Charlotte No C is in Charleston S C idgeway S C…
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Image 39 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young Project 1655 CHARLIE ROBINSON EXSLAVE 87 YEAHS OLD Charlie Robinson lives nine miles northwest of Winnsboro S C on lands of Mr 3 W Lemmon here is one other oooupant in the…
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Image 40 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 14, South Carolina, Part 4, Raines-Young 2 Sitials Dat sumpin1 not in my lingo Boss old znarster name I done forgot You want to know what ny pappy1 s Seem to me they call him Marse Gene though…
- Date: 1936-01-01