Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives By: United States. Work Projects Administration
First Page: [TR: ] = Transcriber Note [HW: ] = Handwritten Note SLAVE NARRATIVES 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 WASHINGTON 1941 VOLUME VII KENTUCKY NARRATIVES Prepared by The Federal Writers' Project of The Works Progress Administration For the State of Kentucky [TR: All county names added. Names, information in brackets added.] INFORMANTS Bogie, Dan Henderson, George Mason, Harriet Mayfield, Bert Oats, Will Robinson, Belle Shirley, Edd Woods, Wes COMBINED INTERVIEWS ANDERSON CO: Ann Gudgel UNION CO: Mrs. Heyburn CALLOWAY CO: George Scruggs GARRARD CO: Harriet Mason BOYD CO: Rev. John R. Cox WAYNE CO: [Mrs. Duncan] DAVIES CO: [Mrs. Elizabeth Alexander] LAUREL CO: Amelia Jones Jenny McKee JEFFERSON CO: Susan Dale Sanders John Anderson Joana Owens [Martha J. Jones] FLOYD CO: Charlie Richmond OWENS CO: George Dorsey CHRISTIAN CO: Annie B. Boyd Kate Billingsby Nannie Eaves Mary Wright CLAY CO: Sophia Word BOYD CO: BELL CO: Mandy Gibson BREATHITT CO: Scott Mitchell UNION CO. [A Bill of Sale.] [WILL Nancy Austin.] ROCKCASTLE CO. CLARK CO. MONTGOMERY CO. MONROE CO: Edd Shirley [Mrs. C. Hood] ESTILL CO: Peter Bruner CHRISTIAN CO: Easter Sudie Campbell [Uncle Dick] Annie Morgan Cora Torian Mary Wooldridge [TR: name corrected per interview.] CALDWELL CO. BALLARD CO. [Tinie Force and Elvira Lewis] LAWRENCE CO. LESLIE CO. GARRARD CO. [Mrs. Jennie Slavin] WEBSTER CO. CALDWELL CO. Esther Hudespeth ANDERSON CO. KNOX CO. CLARK CO. CASEY CO. CHRISTIAN CO. HOPKINS CO. MARTIN CO. [TR: This volume contains a high number of misspellings and typing errors. Words that are apparent misspellings to render dialect, such as 'morster' for 'master', or that reflect spelling errors of a particular interviewer or typist, such as 'posess' for 'possess' or 'allegience' for 'allegiance', have not been changed; words that are apparent typing errors such as 'filed' for 'field', 'ot' for 'of', 'progent' for 'progeny', have been corrected without note, to avoid interrupting the narrative.] Garrard County. Ex Slave Stories. (Eliza Ison) [HW: Ky 9] Interview with Dan Bogie: Uncle Dan tells me "he was born May 5, 1858 at the Abe Wheeler place near Spoonsville, now known as Nina, about nine miles due east from Lancaster. Mother, whose name was Lucinda Wheeler, belonged to the Wheeler family. My father was a slave of Dan Bogie's, at Kirksville, in Madison County, and I was named for him. My mother's people were born in Garrard County as far as I know. I had one sister, born in 1860, who is now dead, and is buried not far from Lancaster. Marse Bogie owned about 200 acres of land in the eastern section of the county, and as far as I can remember there were only four slaves on the place. We lived in a one room cabin, with a loft above, and this cabin was an old fashioned one about hundred yards from the house. We lived in one room, with one bed in the cabin. The one bed was an old fashioned, high post corded bed where my father and mother slept. My sister and me slept in a trundle bed, made like the big bed except the posts were made smaller and was on rollers, so it could be rolled under the big bed. There was also a cradle, made of a wooden box, with rockers nailed on, and my mother told me that she rocked me in that cradle when I was a baby. She used to sit and sing in the evening. She carded the wool and spun yarn on the old spinning wheel. My grandfather was a slave of Talton Embry, whose farm joined the Wheeler farm... Continue reading book >>

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives By: United States. Work Projects Administration

First Page:

[TR: ] = Transcriber Note [HW: ] = Handwritten Note

SLAVE NARRATIVES

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

WASHINGTON 1941

VOLUME VII

KENTUCKY NARRATIVES

Prepared by The Federal Writers' Project of The Works Progress Administration For the State of Kentucky

[TR: All county names added. Names, information in brackets added.]

INFORMANTS

Bogie, Dan

Henderson, George

Mason, Harriet Mayfield, Bert

Oats, Will

Robinson, Belle

Shirley, Edd

Woods, Wes

COMBINED INTERVIEWS

ANDERSON CO: Ann Gudgel

UNION CO: Mrs. Heyburn

CALLOWAY CO: George Scruggs

GARRARD CO: Harriet Mason

BOYD CO: Rev. John R. Cox

WAYNE CO: [Mrs. Duncan]

DAVIES CO: [Mrs. Elizabeth Alexander]

LAUREL CO: Amelia Jones Jenny McKee

JEFFERSON CO: Susan Dale Sanders John Anderson Joana Owens [Martha J. Jones]

FLOYD CO: Charlie Richmond

OWENS CO: George Dorsey

CHRISTIAN CO: Annie B. Boyd Kate Billingsby Nannie Eaves Mary Wright

CLAY CO: Sophia Word

BOYD CO:

BELL CO: Mandy Gibson

BREATHITT CO: Scott Mitchell

UNION CO. [A Bill of Sale.] [WILL Nancy Austin.]

ROCKCASTLE CO.

CLARK CO.

MONTGOMERY CO.

MONROE CO: Edd Shirley [Mrs. C. Hood]

ESTILL CO: Peter Bruner

CHRISTIAN CO: Easter Sudie Campbell [Uncle Dick] Annie Morgan Cora Torian Mary Wooldridge [TR: name corrected per interview.]

CALDWELL CO.

BALLARD CO. [Tinie Force and Elvira Lewis]

LAWRENCE CO.

LESLIE CO.

GARRARD CO. [Mrs. Jennie Slavin]

WEBSTER CO.

CALDWELL CO. Esther Hudespeth

ANDERSON CO.

KNOX CO.

CLARK CO.

CASEY CO.

CHRISTIAN CO.

HOPKINS CO.

MARTIN CO.

[TR: This volume contains a high number of misspellings and typing errors. Words that are apparent misspellings to render dialect, such as 'morster' for 'master', or that reflect spelling errors of a particular interviewer or typist, such as 'posess' for 'possess' or 'allegience' for 'allegiance', have not been changed; words that are apparent typing errors such as 'filed' for 'field', 'ot' for 'of', 'progent' for 'progeny', have been corrected without note, to avoid interrupting the narrative.]

Garrard County. Ex Slave Stories. (Eliza Ison) [HW: Ky 9]

Interview with Dan Bogie:

Uncle Dan tells me "he was born May 5, 1858 at the Abe Wheeler place near Spoonsville, now known as Nina, about nine miles due east from Lancaster. Mother, whose name was Lucinda Wheeler, belonged to the Wheeler family. My father was a slave of Dan Bogie's, at Kirksville, in Madison County, and I was named for him. My mother's people were born in Garrard County as far as I know. I had one sister, born in 1860, who is now dead, and is buried not far from Lancaster. Marse Bogie owned about 200 acres of land in the eastern section of the county, and as far as I can remember there were only four slaves on the place. We lived in a one room cabin, with a loft above, and this cabin was an old fashioned one about hundred yards from the house. We lived in one room, with one bed in the cabin. The one bed was an old fashioned, high post corded bed where my father and mother slept. My sister and me slept in a trundle bed, made like the big bed except the posts were made smaller and was on rollers, so it could be rolled under the big bed. There was also a cradle, made of a wooden box, with rockers nailed on, and my mother told me that she rocked me in that cradle when I was a baby. She used to sit and sing in the evening. She carded the wool and spun yarn on the old spinning wheel. My grandfather was a slave of Talton Embry, whose farm joined the Wheeler farm... Continue reading book >>

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