Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4   By: United States. Work Projects Administration

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

Illustrated with Photographs

WASHINGTON, 1941

VOLUME IV

GEORGIA NARRATIVES

PART 4

Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Georgia

INFORMANTS

Telfair, Georgia 1 Thomas, Cordelia 11 Thomas, Ike 25 Toombs, Jane Mickens 29 Town, Phil 37 [TR: In the interview, he's named Phil Towns.]

Upson, Neal 48

Van Hook, John F. 71 Vinson, Addie 97 Virgel, Emma 115

Walton, Rhodus 123 Ward, William 128, 132 Washington, Lula 134 Willbanks, Green 136 Williamson, Eliza 148 Willingham, Frances 151 Willis, Adeline 161 Willis, Uncle 168 [TR: Willis Bennefield in combined interview.] Winfield, Cornelia 176 Womble, George 179 [TR: Also called Wombly in the interview.] Wright, Henry 194

Young, Dink Walton 205

COMBINED INTERVIEWS

[Excerpts from Slave Interviews] Adeline 212 Eugene 213 Mary 215 Rachel 216 Laura 216 Matilda 217 Easter 218 Carrie 219 Malinda 219 Amelia 220

[Four Slaves Interviewed by Maude Barragan, Edith Bell Love, Ruby Lorraine Radford] Ellen Campbell 221 Rachel Sullivan 226 Eugene Wesley Smith 230 Willis Bennefield 235 [TR: Uncle Willis in individual interview.]

[Folklore] Emmaline Heard 245 Rosa and Jasper Millegan 251 Camilla Jackson 254 Anna Grant 255 Emmaline Heard 256

COMPILATIONS [Richmond County]

Folklore 261 Conjuration 269 Folk Remedies and Superstitions 282 Mistreatment of Slaves 290 Slavery 308 Work, Play, Food, Clothing, Marriage, etc. 355

Transcriber's Notes:

[TR: The interview headers presented here contain all information included in the original, but may have been rearranged for readability. Also, some ages and addresses have been drawn from blocks of information on subsequent interview pages. Names in brackets were drawn from text of interviews.]

[TR: Some interviews were date stamped; these dates have been added to interview headers in brackets. Where part of date could not be determined has been substituted. These dates do not appear to represent actual interview dates, rather dates completed interviews were received or perhaps transcription dates.]

[TR: In general, typographical errors have been left in place to match the original images. In the case where later editors have hand written corrections, simple typographical errors have been silently corrected.]

PLANTATION LIFE AS VIEWED BY AN EX SLAVE