Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives   By: United States. Work Projects Administration

A Folk History of Slavery in the United States

From Interviews with Former Slaves

TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY

THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT

1936 1938

ASSEMBLED BY

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT

WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION

FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Illustrated with Photographs

WASHINGTON 1941

VOLUME I

ALABAMA NARRATIVES

Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of

the Works Progress Administration

for the State of Alabama

[HW:] Handwritten note

[TR:] Transcriber's note

[Illustration: A Slave Cabin in Barbour County near Eufaula ]

INFORMANTS

Charlie Aarons

Anthony Abercrombie

Molly Ammond (Ammonds)

Charity Anderson

Gus Askew

Tom Baker

Henry Barnes

Nathan Beauchamp

Oliver Bell

Nelson Birdsong

Ank Bishop

Siney Bonner

Jennie Bowen

Nannie Bradfield

Martha Bradley

Allen Brown

Gus Brown

Walter Calloway

Esther King Casey

Amy Chapman

Emma Chapman

Henry Cheatam

Laura Clark

Hattie Clayton

Wadley "Shorty" Clemons

William Colbert

Tildy Collins

Sara Colquitt

Mandy McCullough Cosby

Emma Crockett

Cheney Cross

Matilda Pugh Daniel

Carrie Davis

Clara Davis

George Dillard

Ella Dilliard

Rufus Dirt

Katherine Eppes

Reuben Fitzpatrick

Heywood Ford

Bert Frederick

Delia Garlic

Angie Garrett

Henry Garry

Georgia

Fannie Gibson

Frank Gill

Jim Gillard

Mary Ella Grandberry

Esther Green

Jake Green

Charity Grigsby

Charles Hayes

Lizzie Hill

Gabe Hines

Adeline Hodges

Caroline Holland

Jane Holloway

Joseph Holmes

Josh Horn

Emma L. Howard

Everett Ingram

Hannah Irwin

Martha Jackson

Jane

Hilliard Johnson

Randolph Johnson

Abraham Jones

Emma Jones

Hannah Jones

Josephine

Lucindy Lawrence Jurdon

Lucy Kimball

Ellen King

Mandy Leslie

Dellie Lewis

Lightnin'

Billy Abraham Longslaughter

Louis

Tom McAlpin

Anne Maddox

Mandy

Frank Menefee

Isaam Morgan

Tony Morgan

Mose

Sally Murphy

Hattie Anne Nettles

W.E. Northcross

Wade Owens

Molly Parker

Lindy Patton

Simon Phillips

Roxy Pitts

Carrie Pollard

Irene Poole

Nicey Pugh

Sally Reynolds

Mary Rice

Cornelia Robinson

Gus Rogers

Janie Scott

Maugan Shepherd

Allen Sims

Frank Smith

John Smith

Annie Stanton

Theodore Fontaine Stewart

George Strickland

Cull Taylor

Daniel Taylor

George Taylor

Amanda Tellis

Ellen Thomas

Elizabeth Thomas

Mollie Tillman

Alonza Fantroy Toombs

William Henry Towns

Stepney Underwood

Charlie Van Dyke

Lilah Walker

Simon Walker

Lucindia Washington

Eliza White

Mingo White

Abe Whitess

Callie Williams

Silvia Witherspoon

George Young

ILLUSTRATIONS