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NATIONAL
ARCHIVES
Supplemental User Note 1:
Revised Slave Narrative Finding Aid
WPA Slave Narrative Punchcards
NARA Donated Historical Materials Group CUE
When preparing these records for online access, staff found that the original finding aid to the
narratives had incorrect narrator names associated with some of the files. Using software that
was not available at when staff originally processed the records in 2000, staff opened each file to
verify the name of the narrator. Staff also confirmed where multiple files containing variations
of the same narration. The below finding aids provides the narrator name and the files associated
with that narrator. The original finding aid is still needed for locating the original punchcards.
Sorted by Narrator Name
Name and Narrative Identifier (if available)
File Name
National Archives
Identifier
A M Moore [1724-TEX/#242]
F171_moo.TXT
2611051
Aaron Ford [0278-SC/#]
F199_for.TXT
2611080
Abram Sells [1773-TEX/#027]
f019_sel.txt
2610897
Addy Gill [78- NC/#434]
F126_gil.TXT
2611006
Adeline Hodges [0522-ALA/#316]
F196_hod.TXT
2611077
Albert Hill [TEX #212]
F110A_hil.TXT
2610989
Albert Hill
F110B_hil.TXT
2610989
Albert Hill [GEO]
F092_hil.TXT
2610989
Allen Price [1748-TEX/#195]
F134_pri.TXT
2611014
Allen V. Manning [MS, Okla #30]
F073_man.TXT
2610953
Allen V. Manning [MISS #139] & Robert Falls [Slave,
F066_miss.TXT
2610953
NC, TN #145]
Amy Penny [NC/#408]
F123_pen.TXT
2611003
Andrew Boone [Y10]
F213_boo.TXT
2611096
Andrew Goodman [Slave in ALA] [Tex #207]
F088_goo.TXT
2610968
Andrew Goodman [Tex #207]
F108_goo.TXT
2610968
Angie Garrett [0519-ALA/#335]
F194_gar.TXT
2611075
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Arnold Gragston [Slave in KY]
F099_gra.TXT
2610978
Ben Johnson [NC/#]
F116_joh.TXT
2610996
Ben Simpson [Slave in GA. and TX]
F082_sim.TXT
2610962
Benjamin Johnson [GA, #49]
F062_joh.TXT
2610941
Benjamin Russell [Data 1, SC 119]
F086_rus.TXT
2610966
Benjamin Russell [Data 1]
F059_dat1.TXT
2610966
Benjamin Russell [SC119]
F060_dat119.TXT
2610966
Bettie Suber [449-SC/#008]
f003_sub.txt
2610881
Bill Crump [0054-NC/#13]
F004_cru.txt
2610882
Bob Mobley [0728-GEO/#362]
F180_mob.TXT
2611061
Bob Samuels [1368-ARK/#070]
F047_sam.TXT
2610925
Boston Blackwell [Y8]
F211_bla.TXT
2611094
Calli Alder [0643-GEO/#353]
F193_ald.TXT
2611074
Catherine Williams [0181-NC/ #212]
F139_wil.TXT
2611019
Cato [Slave in AL]
F079_cat.TXT
2610959
Chana Littlejohn [0115-NC/#347 [S2]]
F159_lit.TXT
2611039
Charley Hurt [TEX #215]
F093_hur.TXT
2610973
Charley Willams [Okla #37]
F107_wil.TXT
2610986
Charley Williams [Okla #37]
F071_wil.TXT
2610986
Charley Williams [Okla #37]
F071_wil2.TXT
2610986
Charlie Hudson [0676-GEO/ #262]
F150_hud.TXT
2611030
Charlie Robinson [0422-SC/#]
F202_rob.TXT
2611084
Charlotte Beverly [1559-TEX/#325]
F191_bev.TXT
2611072
Charly Hurt [TEX #215]
F112_hur.TXT
2610992
Cheney Cross [Y21]
F219_cro.TXT
2611102
Clara Brim [1574-TEX/#033]
f022_bri.txt
2610900
Cra M. Flagg [0074-NC/#186 [S2]]
F153_fla.TXT
2611033
Cynthia Jones [1174-ALA/#37]
f024_jon.txt
2610902
David Blont [Y9]
F212_blo.TXT
2611095
David Lee [TF/#001]
F204_lee.TXT
2611086
Delia Garlic [519-ALA/#036]
f023_gar.txt
2610901
Dictionary file part 1
F229_dicfile.1.TXT
2611112
Dictionary file part 2
F230_dicfile.2.TXT
2611112
Doc Edwards [0071-NC/#182 [S2]]
F157_edw.TXT
2611037
Dolly Whiteside [1486-ARK/#052]
f034_whi.txt
2610912
Easter Norris [366-SC/#24]
F016_nor.TXT
2610894
Easter Norris [366-SC/#24]
f015_sim.txt
2610894
Ed Barber [202-SC/#21]
F013_bar.TXT
2610891
Eliza Jones [1176-ARK/#014]
f007_jon.txt
2610885
Ellen Betts [Slave in LA]
F084_bet.TXT
2610964
Elson Lyles [0374-SC/#282]
F128_lyl.TXT
2611008
NARA Reference Copy
Emma Jeter [344-SC/#068]
F046_jet.TXT
2610924
Emma Jones [545-Ala/#018]
F012_jon.TXT
2610890
Essex Henry [0091-NC/#158 [S2]]
F151_hen.TXT
2611031
Everette Ingram [538-ALA/#060]
F041_ing.TXT
2610919
Fannie Moore [0129-NC/#349]
F178_moo.TXT
2611059
Fanny Johnson [1157-ARK/#062]
F042_joh.TXT
2610920
Fleming Clark [Ohio #128]
F106_cla.TXT
2610985
Fleming Clark [Age 74, OH #128]
F064_cla.TXT
2610985
Frank Bell [Y5]
F207_bel.TXT
2611090
Frank Gill [0523-ALA/#319]
F195_gil.TXT
2611076
George Briggs [Slave in SC #61]
F087_bri.TXT
2610967
George McAlilley [376-SC/#055]
F036_mca.txt
2610914
George Taylor [AL. A6 (16)]
F052_tay.TXT
2610930
George Taylor [ALA #16]
F102_tay.TXT
2610930
George Young [Alabama (repeated 2x)]
F051_you.TXT
2610929
George Young [ALA #20]
F103_you.TXT
2610929
Gus Feaster [SC, #83]
F228_fea.TXT
2611111
Hannah Jones [0546-ALA/#277]
F176_jon.TXT
2611057
Hannah Plummer [NC/#404]
F122_plu.TXT
2611002
Harre Quarls [1754-TEX/#206]
F142_qua.TXT
2611022
Harriet Barret [1549-TEX/#368]
F192_bar.TXT
2611073
Harrison Boyd [1562-TEX/#219]
F141_boy.TXT
2611021
Harry Johnson [Slave in AR & TX]
F090_joh.TXT
2610970
Harry Johnson [TEX #219]
F113_joh.TXT
2610970
Hattie Anne Nettles [ALA/#018]
F011_net.TXT
2610889
Henrietta Evelin Smith [1397-ARK/#026]
f018_smi.txt
2610896
Henrietta McCullers [0118-NC/#072]
f049_mcc.txt
2610927
Henry Bobbitt [NC175/NC151-Set 1]
F053_nc151.TXT
2610931
Henry Coleman [0240-SC/#333]
F199B_col.TXT
2611081
Henry Cheatam #ALA #199 [0498-ALA/#199]
F136_non.TXT
2611016
Henry Cheatam #ALA #199 [0498-ALA/#199]
F135_hen.TXT
2611016
Henry Cheatam [Y18]
F216_che.TXT
2611016
Henry James Trentham [177-NC/#13]
F006_tre.txt
2610884
Henry Lewis [TEX #222]
F114_lew.TXT
2610994
Henry Ryan
F164_rya.TXT
2611044
Heyword Ford [516-ALA/#032]
f021_for.txt
2610899
Iran Nelson [1286-ARK/#044]
f027_nel.txt
2610905
Isaac Adams [Y1]
F206_ada.TXT
2611088
Isaac Martin [TEX #223]
F104_mar.TXT
2610983
Isaac Martin [TEX #223]
F111_mar.TXT
2610983
Isom Rogers [1353-ARK/#050]
F032_rog.txt
2610910
NARA Reference Copy
Jacob Branch [1572-TEX/#216]
F165_bra.TXT
2611045
Jake McLeod [SC NE. 107 Age-83]
F058_mcl.TXT
2610936
Jake Mcleod [SC #107]
F098_mcl.TXT
2610936
Jake McLeod 2nd part
F058_mcl2.TXT
2610936
James Bolton [0017-GEO/ #257]
F149_bol.TXT
2611029
James Campbell [W.VA #127]
F063_cam.TXT
2610942
James Campbell [W.VA Ohio #127]
F068_cam.TXT
2610942
James Cape [Y16]
F215_cap.TXT
2611098
James Hayes [Slave in TEX]
F091_hay.TXT
2610971
James Hayes
F109_non.TXT
2610971
James Spikes [1403-ARK/#063]
F044_spi.TXT
2610922
James West [1816-TEX/#365]
F181_wes.TXT
2611062
Jane Arrington [NC/#344]
F125_arr.TXT
2611005
Jane Lee [NC/#360]
F124_lee.TXT
2611004
Jasper Battle [GA, #40]
F061_bat.TXT
2610940
Jasper Battle [Slave in GA #40]
F101_bat.TXT
2610940
Jeptha Choice [1595-TEX/#047]
F030_cho.txt
2610908
Jim Gillard [0524-ALA/ #232]
F168_gil.TXT
2611048
Joanna Draper [Slave in MS]
F080_dra.TXT
2610960
Joe Barnes [1547-TEX/#007]
f002_bar.txt
2610880
Joe Clinton, Followed by three miscellaneous cards
f026_cli.txt
2610904
[0950-ARK/#040]
Joe Rutherford [0428-SC/ #240]
F166_rut.TXT
2611046
Joe Tillman [1440-ARK/#051]
f033_til.txt
2610911
John Boyd [212-SC/#065]
F045_boy.TXT
2610923
John Brown [Y14]
F227_bro.TXT
2611110
John Coggin [0047_NC/#249]
F144_cog.TXT
2611024
John Coggin [0047-NC/#249 [S2]]
F155_cog.TXT
2611024
John Ellis [1626-TEX/#056]
f037_ell.txt
2610915
John Moody [1704-TEX/#370]
F185_moo.TXT
2611066
Joseph Leonides [Age 81, TN #148]
F070_leo.TXT
2610949
Josh Hart [0536-ALA/#223]
F169_har.TXT
2611049
Julia Brown [Y15]
F162_bro.TXT
2611042
Katherine Eppes [514-ALA/#25]
f017_epp.txt
2610895
Katie Darling [Y22]
F220_dar.TXT
2611103
Katie Rowe [Slave in AR]
F078_row.TXT
2610958
Lee Guidon [Slave in SC]
F074_gui.TXT
2610954
Liza Menton [0715-GEO/#039]
f025_men.txt
2610903
Lizzie Johnson [1162-ARK/#017]
F010_joh.TXT
2610888
Lizzie Jones [1686-TEX/#045]
f028_jon.txt
2610906
Louisa Davis [0256-SC/#222]
F167_dav.TXT
2611047
Lucretia Alexander [Y2]
F207_ale.TXT
2611089
NARA Reference Copy
Lucy Ann Dunn [0068-NC/#533 [S2]]
F152_dun.TXT
2611032
Lucy Daniels [0247-SC_/#191]
F133_dan.TXT
2611013
Mack Taylor [0451-SC/#255]
F147_tay.TXT
2611027
Mama Duck [0786-FLA/#058]
f039_duc.txt
2610917
Mandy [0558-ALA/#433]
F182_man.TXT
2611063
Mandy Coversion [0048-NC/#292 [S2]]
F154_cov.TXT
2611034
Mandy Leslie [0551-ALA/#290]
F131_les.TXT
2611011
Manuel Johnson [0691-GEO/#200]
F137_joh.TXT
2611017
Margaret E. Dickens [0064-NC#210]
F143_dic.TXT
2611023
Margaret Dickens [0064-NC/#210 [S2]]
F158_dic.TXT
2611023
Mariah Robinson [Slave in GA and TX]
F077_rob.TXT
2610957
Mariah Snyder [1785-TEX/#250]
F148_sny.TXT
2611028
Martha Allen [0018-NC/#059]
F040_all.TXT
2610918
Martha Colquitt [Y20]
F218_col.TXT
2611101
Martha Spence Bunton [1583-TEX/#334]
F190_bun.TXT
2611071
Martin Jackson [Y53]
F222_jac.TXT
2611105
Mary A. Bell [Y6]
F209bel.TXT
2611091
Mary Grayson [Indian Terr]
F081_gra.TXT
2610961
Mary Johnson [0352-SC/#]
F200_joh.TXT
2611082
Mary Overton [1737-TEX/#355]
F184_ove.TXT
2611065
Mary Raines [0410-SC/#221]
F140_rai.TXT
2611020
Mary Reynolds [Slave in LA]
F083_rey.TXT
2610963
Millie Bates [205-SC/#333]
F198_bat.TXT
2611079
Millie Markham [0124-NC/ #211]
F145_mar.TXT
2611025
Millie Marham [0124-NC/#211 [S2]]
F156_mar.TXT
2611025
Mindy Coversion [0048-NC/ #292]
F146_cov.TXT
2611026
Molly Ammonds [479-ALA/#066]
F043_amm.TXT
2610921
Mom Jessie Sparrow [0466-SC/#]
F203_spa.TXT
2611085
Morris Shephard [Age 85, OK #34]
F072_she.TXT
2610952
Morris Sheppard [Age 85 OK#34]
F067_she.TXT
2610952
Muse Minser [1255-ARK/#006]
f001_min.txt
2610879
Nancy King [1692-TEX/#309]
F186_kin.TXT
2611067
Nannie Bradfield [0490-ALA/#308]
F189_bra.TXT
2611070
Neal Upson [0753-GEO/#233]
F177_ups.TXT
2611058
Ned Walker [Sample 1 #SC/122]
F085_wal.TXT
2610965
Nellie Dunne [998-ARK/#015]
f008_dun.txt
2610886
Nellie Johnson [OK/#053]
f035_joh.txt
2610913
Nicey Kenny [Slave in GA]
F075_kin.TXT
2610955
Nina Scott [0436-SC / #291]
F130_sco.TXT
2611010
Nine Miscellaneous Cards
F226_misc..TXT
2611109
Old Susan Hamlin [0315-SC_/#287]
F161_ham.TXT
2611041
NARA Reference Copy
Parker Pool [NC175/NC151-Set 2]
F054_nc151.TXT
2610932
Parker Pool [Age 91, NC #175]
F160_poo.TXT
2611040
Parker Pool [Partial Repeat of NC- 151]
F055_nc151.TXT
2611040
Pauline Worth [0473-SC/#318]
F188_wor.TXT
2611069
Peter Clifton [Y19]
F217_cli.TXT
2611100
Phillip Evans [SC #82]
F105_eva.TXT
2610984
Prince Johnson [Y58]
F224_joh.TXT
2611107
Ransom Sidney Taylor [NC/#]
F117_tay.TXT
2610997
Reverend W.E. Northcross [0505-ALA/#363]
F183_nor.TXT
2611064
Richard Carruthers [1591-TEX/#285]
F129_car.TXT
2611009
Richard Jones [0355-SC/#]
F201_jon.TXT
2611083
Richard Jones [Y59]
F225_jon.TXT
2611083
Richard Mack [0378-SC/ #207]
F170_mac.TXT
2611050
Richard Slaughter [0013-VA_/#057]
f038_sla.txt
2610916
Robert Barr [0881-ARK/#071]
F048_bar.TXT
2610926
Robert Falls [NC, TN #145]
F069_fal.TXT
2610948
Robert Falls [Slave, NC, TN #145]
F065_fal.TXT
2610948
Robert Falls [Slave, NC, TN #145] & Allen V.
F066_miss.TXT
2610948
Manning [MISS #139]
Robert Heard [0669-GEO/#229]
F173_hea.TXT
2611053
Robert Shepherd [0737-GEO/#016]
F009_she.TXT
2610887
Rosa Green [1643-TEX/#281]
F127_gre.TXT
2611007
Sallie Paul [0399-SC /#205]
F163_pau.TXT
2611043
Sam Mcallum [Miss #139]
F115_mca.TXT
2610995
Sam Mcallum [Slave in MS]
F095_mca.TXT
2610995
Sarah Anderson [0862-ARK/#102]
F132_and.TXT
2611012
Sarah Harris [0086-NC/#022]
F014_har.TXT
2610892
Sarah Louise Augustus [0024-NC/#074]
F050_aug.TXT
2610928
Sarah Poindexter [0405-SC/ #275]
F175_poi.TXT
2611055
Silas Jackson [Y54]
F223_jac.TXT
2611106
Simuel Riddick [NC/#]
F120_rid.TXT
2611000
Solbert Butler [0228-SC/ #271]
F174_but.TXT
2611054
Solomon P. Patillo [1311-ARK/#048]
f031_pat.txt
2610909
Susan Snow [MISS #143]
F096_sno.TXT
2610975
Tempie Herndon [Y49]
F221_her.TXT
2611104
Thomas Cole [1598-TEX/#343]
F187_col.TXT
2611068
Tillie [NC/#406]
F121_til.TXT
2611001
Tina Johnson [NC/#012]
F005_joh.txt
2610883
Tines Kendricks [Slave in GA]
F076_ken.TXT
2610956
Tom Mcalpin [556-ALA/#046]
f029_mca.txt
2610907
Tom Wilcox [0180-NC/#327]
F197_wil.TXT
2611078
Unknown [GEO #49]
F100_non.TXT
2610979
NARA Reference Copy
Unknown [TF/#002]
F205_non.TXT
2611087
Virginia Bell [Y7]
F210_bel.TXT
2611093
Virginia Bell
F209_bel.TXT
2611093
WL Bost [Y11]
F214_bos.TXT
2611097
Washington Dozier [Slave in SC#75]
F056_doz.TXT
2610934
Washington Dozier [Slave in SC#75]
F057_eva.TXT
2610934
Washington Dozier [Slave in SC]
F097_doz.TXT
2610934
William Branch [1573-TEX/#030]
f020_bra.txt
2610898
William Green [1644-TEX/#204]
F138_gre.TXT
2611018
William Oliver [0395-SC/#217]
F172_oli.TXT
2611052
William Scott [NC/#]
F119_sco.TXT
2610999
William Ward [0758-GEO/#361]
F179_war.TXT
2611060
Willie McCullough [NC/#]
F118_mcc.TXT
2610998
Willis Winn [Slave in LA]
F089_win.TXT
2610969
NARA Reference Copy
Sorted by File Name
Name and Narrative Identifier (if available)
File Name
National Archives
Identifier
Muse Minser [1255-ARK/#006]
f001_min.txt
2610879
Joe Barnes [1547-TEX/#007]
f002_bar.txt
2610880
Bettie Suber [449-SC/#008]
f003_sub.txt
2610881
Bill Crump [0054-NC/#13]
F004_cru.txt
2610882
Tina Johnson [NC/#012]
F005_joh.txt
2610883
Henry James Trentham [177-NC/#13]
F006_tre.txt
2610884
Eliza Jones [1176-ARK/#014]
f007_jon.txt
2610885
Nellie Dunne [998-ARK/#015]
f008_dun.txt
2610886
Robert Shepherd [0737-GEO/#016]
F009_she.TXT
2610887
Lizzie Johnson [1162-ARK/#017]
F010_joh.TXT
2610888
Hattie Anne Nettles [ALA/#018]
F011_net.TXT
2610889
Emma Jones [545-Ala/#018]
F012_jon.TXT
2610890
Ed Barber [202-SC/#21]
F013_bar.TXT
2610891
Sarah Harris [0086-NC/#022]
F014_har.TXT
2610892
Easter Norris [366-SC/#24]
f015_sim.txt
2610894
Easter Norris [366-SC/#24]
F016_nor.TXT
2610894
Katherine Eppes [514-ALA/#25]
f017_epp.txt
2610895
Henrietta Evelin Smith [1397-ARK/#026]
f018_smi.txt
2610896
Abram Sells [1773-TEX/#027]
f019_sel.txt
2610897
William Branch [1573-TEX/#030]
f020_bra.txt
2610898
Heyword Ford [516-ALA/#032]
f021_for.txt
2610899
Clara Brim [1574-TEX/#033]
f022_bri.txt
2610900
Delia Garlic [519-ALA/#036]
f023_gar.txt
2610901
Cynthia Jones [1174-ALA/#37]
f024_jon.txt
2610902
Liza Menton [0715-GEO/#039]
f025_men.txt
2610903
Joe Clinton, Followed by three miscellaneous cards
f026_cli.txt
2610904
[0950-ARK/#040]
Iran Nelson [1286-ARK/#044]
f027_nel.txt
2610905
Lizzie Jones [1686-TEX/#045]
f028_jon.txt
2610906
Tom Mcalpin [556-ALA/#046]
f029_mca.txt
2610907
Jeptha Choice [1595-TEX/#047]
F030_cho.txt
2610908
Solomon P. Patillo [1311-ARK/#048]
f031_pat.txt
2610909
Isom Rogers [1353-ARK/#050]
F032_rog.txt
2610910
Joe Tillman [1440-ARK/#051]
f033_til.txt
2610911
Dolly Whiteside [1486-ARK/#052]
f034_whi.txt
2610912
Nellie Johnson [OK/#053]
f035_joh.txt
2610913
George McAlilley [376-SC/#055]
F036_mca.txt
2610914
John Ellis [1626-TEX/#056]
f037_ell.txt
2610915
NARA Reference Copy
Richard Slaughter [0013-VA_/#057]
f038_sla.txt
2610916
Mama Duck [0786-FLA/#058]
f039_duc.txt
2610917
Martha Allen [0018-NC/#059]
F040_all.TXT
2610918
Everette Ingram [538-ALA/#060]
F041_ing.TXT
2610919
Fanny Johnson [1157-ARK/#062]
F042_joh.TXT
2610920
Molly Ammonds [479-ALA/#066]
F043_amm.TXT
2610921
James Spikes [1403-ARK/#063]
F044_spi.TXT
2610922
John Boyd [212-SC/#065]
F045_boy.TXT
2610923
Emma Jeter [344-SC/#068]
F046_jet.TXT
2610924
Bob Samuels [1368-ARK/#070]
F047_sam.TXT
2610925
Robert Barr [0881-ARK/#071]
F048_bar.TXT
2610926
Henrietta McCullers [0118-NC/#072]
f049_mcc.txt
2610927
Sarah Louise Augustus [0024-NC/#074]
F050_aug.TXT
2610928
George Young [Alabama (repeated 2x)]
F051_you.TXT
2610929
George Taylor [AL. A6 (16)]
F052_tay.TXT
2610930
Henry Bobbitt [NC175/NC151-Set 1]
F053_nc151.TXT
2610931
Parker Pool [NC175/NC151-Set 2]
F054_nc151.TXT
2610932
Parker Pool [Partial Repeat of NC- 151]
F055_nc151.TXT
2611040
Washington Dozier [Slave in SC#75]
F056_doz.TXT
2610934
Washington Dozier [Slave in SC#75]
F057_eva.TXT
2610934
Jake McLeod [SC NE. 107 Age-83]
F058_mcl.TXT
2610936
Jake McLeod 2nd part
F058_mcl2.TXT
2610936
Benjamin Russell [Data 1]
F059_dat1.TXT
2610966
Benjamin Russell [SC119]
F060_dat119.TXT
2610966
Jasper Battle [GA, #40]
F061_bat.TXT
2610940
Benjamin Johnson [GA, #49]
F062_joh.TXT
2610941
James Campbell [W.VA #127]
F063_cam.TXT
2610942
Fleming Clark [Age 74, OH #128]
F064_cla.TXT
2610985
Robert Falls [Slave, NC, TN #145]
F065_fal.TXT
2610948
Allen V. Manning [MISS #139] & Robert Falls
F066_miss.TXT
2610953
[Slave, NC, TN #145]
Robert Falls [Slave, NC, TN #145] & Allen V.
F066_miss.TXT
2610948
Manning [MISS #139]
Morris Sheppard [Age 85 OK#34]
F067_she.TXT
2610952
James Campbell [W.VA Ohio #127]
F068_cam.TXT
2610942
Robert Falls [NC, TN #145]
F069_fal.TXT
2610948
Joseph Leonides [Age 81, TN #148]
F070_leo.TXT
2610949
Charley Williams [Okla #37]
F071_wil.TXT
2610986
Charley Williams [Okla #37]
F071_wil2.TXT
2610986
Morris Shephard [Age 85, OK #34]
F072_she.TXT
2610952
Allen V. Manning [MS, Okla #30]
F073_man.TXT
2610953
Lee Guidon [Slave in SC]
F074_gui.TXT
2610954
NARA Reference Copy
Nicey Kenny [Slave in GA]
F075_kin.TXT
2610955
Tines Kendricks [Slave in GA]
F076_ken.TXT
2610956
Mariah Robinson [Slave in GA and TX]
F077_rob.TXT
2610957
Katie Rowe [Slave in AR]
F078_row.TXT
2610958
Cato [Slave in AL]
F079_cat.TXT
2610959
Joanna Draper [Slave in MS]
F080_dra.TXT
2610960
Mary Grayson [Indian Terr]
F081_gra.TXT
2610961
Ben Simpson [Slave in GA. and TX]
F082_sim.TXT
2610962
Mary Reynolds [Slave in LA]
F083_rey.TXT
2610963
Ellen Betts [Slave in LA]
F084_bet.TXT
2610964
Ned Walker [Sample 1 #SC/122]
F085_wal.TXT
2610965
Benjamin Russell [Data 1, SC 119]
F086_rus.TXT
2610966
George Briggs [Slave in SC #61]
F087_bri.TXT
2610967
Andrew Goodman [Slave in ALA] [Tex #207]
F088_goo.TXT
2610968
Willis Winn [Slave in LA]
F089_win.TXT
2610969
Harry Johnson [Slave in AR & TX]
F090_joh.TXT
2610970
James Hayes [Slave in TEX]
F091_hay.TXT
2610971
Albert Hill [GEO]
F092_hil.TXT
2610989
Charley Hurt [TEX #215]
F093_hur.TXT
2610973
Sam Mcallum [Slave in MS]
F095_mca.TXT
2610995
Susan Snow [MISS #143]
F096_sno.TXT
2610975
Washington Dozier [Slave in SC]
F097_doz.TXT
2610934
Jake Mcleod [SC #107]
F098_mcl.TXT
2610936
Arnold Gragston [Slave in KY]
F099_gra.TXT
2610978
Unknown [GEO #49]
F100_non.TXT
2610979
Jasper Battle [Slave in GA #40]
F101_bat.TXT
2610940
George Taylor [ALA #16]
F102_tay.TXT
2610930
George Young [ALA #20]
F103_you.TXT
2610929
Isaac Martin [TEX #223]
F104_mar.TXT
2610983
Phillip Evans [SC #82]
F105_eva.TXT
2610984
Fleming Clark [Ohio #128]
F106_cla.TXT
2610985
Charley Willams [Okla #37]
F107_wil.TXT
2610986
Andrew Goodman [Tex #207]
F108_goo.TXT
2610968
James Hayes
F109_non.TXT
2610971
Albert Hill [TEX #212]
F110A_hil.TXT
2610989
Albert Hill
F110B_hil.TXT
2610989
Isaac Martin [TEX #223]
F111_mar.TXT
2610983
Charly Hurt [TEX #215]
F112_hur.TXT
2610992
Harry Johnson [TEX #219]
F113_joh.TXT
2610970
Henry Lewis [TEX #222]
F114_lew.TXT
2610994
Sam Mcallum [Miss #139]
F115_mca.TXT
2610995
NARA Reference Copy
Ben Johnson [NC/#]
F116_joh.TXT
2610996
Ransom Sidney Taylor [NC/#]
F117_tay.TXT
2610997
Willie McCullough [NC/#]
F118_mcc.TXT
2610998
William Scott [NC/#]
F119_sco.TXT
2610999
Simuel Riddick [NC/#]
F120_rid.TXT
2611000
Tillie [NC/#406]
F121_til.TXT
2611001
Hannah Plummer [NC/#404]
F122_plu.TXT
2611002
Amy Penny [NC/#408]
F123_pen.TXT
2611003
Jane Lee [NC/#360]
F124_lee.TXT
2611004
Jane Arrington [NC/#344]
F125_arr.TXT
2611005
Addy Gill [78-NC/#434]
F126_gil.TXT
2611006
Rosa Green [1643-TEX/#281]
F127_gre.TXT
2611007
Elson Lyles [0374-SC/#282]
F128_lyl.TXT
2611008
Richard Carruthers [1591-TEX/#285]
F129_car.TXT
2611009
Nina Scott [0436-SC / #291]
F130_sco.TXT
2611010
Mandy Leslie [0551-ALA/#290]
F131_les.TXT
2611011
Sarah Anderson [0862-ARK/#102]
F132_and.TXT
2611012
Lucy Daniels [0247-SC_/#191]
F133_dan.TXT
2611013
Allen Price [1748-TEX/#195]
F134_pri.TXT
2611014
Henry Cheatam #ALA #199 [0498-ALA/#199]
F135_hen.TXT
2611016
Henry Cheatam #ALA #199 [0498-ALA/#199]
F136_non.TXT
2611016
Manuel Johnson [0691-GEO/#200]
F137_joh.TXT
2611017
William Green [1644-TEX/#204]
F138_gre.TXT
2611018
Catherine Williams [0181-NC/ #212]
F139_wil.TXT
2611019
Mary Raines [0410-SC/#221]
F140_rai.TXT
2611020
Harrison Boyd [1562-TEX/#219]
F141_boy.TXT
2611021
Harre Quarls [1754-TEX/#206]
F142_qua.TXT
2611022
Margaret E. Dickens [0064-NC#210]
F143_dic.TXT
2611023
John Coggin [0047_NC/#249]
F144_cog.TXT
2611024
Millie Markham [0124-NC/ #211]
F145_mar.TXT
2611025
Mindy Coversion [0048-NC/ #292]
F146_cov.TXT
2611026
Mack Taylor [0451-SC/#255]
F147_tay.TXT
2611027
Mariah Snyder [1785-TEX/#250]
F148_sny.TXT
2611028
James Bolton [0017-GEO/ #257]
F149_bol.TXT
2611029
Charlie Hudson [0676-GEO/ #262]
F150_hud.TXT
2611030
Essex Henry [0091-NC/#158 [S2]]
F151_hen.TXT
2611031
Lucy Ann Dunn [0068-NC/#533 [S2]]
F152_dun.TXT
2611032
Cra M. Flagg [0074-NC/#186 [S2]]
F153_fla.TXT
2611033
Mandy Coversion [0048-NC/#292 [S2]]
F154_cov.TXT
2611034
John Coggin [0047-NC/#249 [S2]]
F155_cog.TXT
2611024
Millie Marham [0124-NC/#211 [S2]]
F156_mar.TXT
2611025
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Doc Edwards [0071-NC/#182 [S2]]
F157_edw.TXT
2611037
Margaret Dickens [0064-NC/#210 [S2]]
F158_dic.TXT
2611023
Chana Littlejohn [0115-NC/#347 [S2]]
F159_lit.TXT
2611039
Parker Pool [Age 91, NC #175]
F160_poo.TXT
2611040
Old Susan Hamlin [0315-SC_/#287]
F161_ham.TXT
2611041
Julia Brown [Y15]
F162_bro.TXT
2611042
Sallie Paul [0399-SC /#205]
F163_pau.TXT
2611043
Henry Ryan
F164_rya.TXT
2611044
Jacob Branch [1572-TEX/#216]
F165_bra.TXT
2611045
Joe Rutherford [0428-SC/ #240]
F166_rut.TXT
2611046
Louisa Davis [0256-SC/#222]
F167_dav.TXT
2611047
Jim Gillard [0524-ALA/ #232]
F168_gil.TXT
2611048
Josh Hart [0536-ALA/#223]
F169_har.TXT
2611049
Richard Mack [0378-SC/ #207]
F170_mac.TXT
2611050
AM Moore [1724-TEX/#242]
F171_moo.TXT
2611051
William Oliver [0395-SC/#217]
F172_oli.TXT
2611052
Robert Heard [0669-GEO/#229]
F173_hea.TXT
2611053
Solbert Butler [0228-SC/ #271]
F174_but.TXT
2611054
Sarah Poindexter [0405-SC/ #275]
F175_poi.TXT
2611055
Hannah Jones [0546-ALA/#277]
F176_jon.TXT
2611057
Neal Upson [0753-GEO/#233]
F177_ups.TXT
2611058
Fannie Moore [0129-NC/#349]
F178_moo.TXT
2611059
William Ward [0758-GEO/#361]
F179_war.TXT
2611060
Bob Mobley [0728-GEO/#362]
F180_mob.TXT
2611061
James West [1816-TEX/#365]
F181_wes.TXT
2611062
Mandy [0558-ALA/#433]
F182_man.TXT
2611063
Reverend W.E. Northcross [0505-ALA/#363]
F183_nor.TXT
2611064
Mary Overton [1737-TEX/#355]
F184_ove.TXT
2611065
John Moody [1704-TEX/#370]
F185_moo.TXT
2611066
Nancy King [1692-TEX/#309]
F186_kin.TXT
2611067
Thomas Cole [1598-TEX/#343]
F187_col.TXT
2611068
Pauline Worth [0473-SC/#318]
F188_wor.TXT
2611069
Nannie Bradfield [0490-ALA/#308]
F189_bra.TXT
2611070
Martha Spence Bunton [1583-TEX/#334]
F190_bun.TXT
2611071
Charlotte Beverly [1559-TEX/#325]
F191_bev.TXT
2611072
Harriet Barret [1549-TEX/#368]
F192_bar.TXT
2611073
Calli Alder [0643-GEO/#353]
F193_ald.TXT
2611074
Angie Garrett [0519-ALA/#335]
F194_gar.TXT
2611075
Frank Gill [0523-ALA/#319]
F195_gil.TXT
2611076
Adeline Hodges [0522-ALA/#316]
F196_hod.TXT
2611077
Tom Wilcox [0180-NC/#327]
F197_wil.TXT
2611078
NARA Reference Copy
Millie Bates [205-SC/#333]
F198_bat.TXT
2611079
Aaron Ford [0278-SC/#]
F199_for.TXT
2611080
Henry Coleman [0240-SC/#333]
F199B_col.TXT
2611081
Mary Johnson [0352-SC/#]
F200_joh.TXT
2611082
Richard Jones [0355-SC/#]
F201_jon.TXT
2611083
Charlie Robinson [0422-SC/#]
F202_rob.TXT
2611084
Mom Jessie Sparrow [0466-SC/#]
F203_spa.TXT
2611085
David Lee [TF/#001]
F204_lee.TXT
2611086
Unknown [TF/#002]
F205_non.TXT
2611087
Isaac Adams [Y1]
F206_ada.TXT
2611088
Lucretia Alexander [Y2]
F207_ale.TXT
2611089
Frank Bell [Y5]
F207_bel.TXT
2611090
Virginia Bell
F209_bel.TXT
2611093
Mary A. Bell [Y6]
F209bel.TXT
2611091
Virginia Bell [Y7]
F210_bel.TXT
2611093
Boston Blackwell [Y8]
F211_bla.TXT
2611094
David Blont [Y9]
F212_blo.TXT
2611095
Andrew Boone [Y10]
F213_boo.TXT
2611096
WL Bost [Y11]
F214_bos.TXT
2611097
James Cape [Y16]
F215_cap.TXT
2611098
Henry Cheatam [Y18]
F216_che.TXT
2611016
Peter Clifton [Y19]
F217_cli.TXT
2611100
Martha Colquitt [Y20]
F218_col.TXT
2611101
Cheney Cross [Y21]
F219_cro.TXT
2611102
Katie Darling [Y22]
F220_dar.TXT
2611103
Tempie Herndon [Y49]
F221_her.TXT
2611104
Martin Jackson [Y53]
F222_jac.TXT
2611105
Silas Jackson [Y54]
F223_jac.TXT
2611106
Prince Johnson [Y58]
F224_joh.TXT
2611107
Richard Jones [Y59]
F225_jon.TXT
2611083
Nine Miscellaneous Cards
F226_misc..TXT
2611109
John Brown [Y14]
F227_bro.TXT
2611110
Gus Feaster [SC, #83]
F228_fea.TXT
2611111
Dictionary file part 1
F229_dicfile.1.TXT
2611112
Dictionary file part 2
F230_dicfile.2.TXT
2611112
Lynn Goodsell, Reference Branch Chief
Electronic Records Division (RDE)
December 29, 2020
NARA Reference Copy
RECORDS AND ARRCHIVES ADMINISTRATION TYNOLLYN
National Archives and Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road
1985
College Park, Maryland 20740-6001
List of Documentation for the
The Slave Narrative Collection, Random Sample of Interviews
Conducted by the Work Projects Administration, 1936-38
Center for Urban Ethnology, University of Pennsylvania
Donated Materials Group CUE
NARA Prepared Documentation:
# Pages
User Note describing technical characteristics of the file
2
Description of technical processing of materials
2
Finding Aid for available narratives
8
Description of Slave Narrative Collection on Ancestry.com
2
Donor Documentation Contents:
Description of narratives and select pages from published narratives
5
NARA Processing Materials:
Sample Printout of the TAR file
2
NN3-CUE-00-001 (NWME)
Theodore J. Hull
February 28, 2003
NARA's web site is http://www.nara.gov
NARA Reference Copy
MAR 31 2000
National
AND
RECORDS
Archives at College Park
ARCHIVES
8601 Adelphi Road College Park, Maryland 20740-6001
NATIONAL
1985
WPA SLAVE NARRATIVE PUNCHCARDS
Donated by Dr. Jim Cahalan
Formerly of the Center for Urban Ethnology
University of Pennsylvania
NARA Donated Historical Materials Group CUE
This collection consists of 232 textual electronic records files
of WPA Slave Narratives converted from punchcard to electronic
format by the Center for Electronic Records, National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA) Also included in this
collection are two donor created "dictionary" files. Please see
the description of the conversion project ("What's Old is New
Again" ) for background on the creation and conversion of these
materials. A finding aid to the punchcards and the electronic
files is included in this documentation. A donor supplied
description is also included.
NARA chose to accept this donation because the donor suggested
this was the only extant electronic version of these narratives.
The collection has a clear relationship to a federal program and
was thought to be a unique compilation of such materials.
During early FY2000, NARA also used this donation as a test of
its ability to convert and accession a set of unstructured
textual materials. Only later (March 2000) did the staff of the
Center for Electronic Records become aware of the work of George
Rawick and the commercial vendor ANCESTRY. COM to make these
narratives available electronically. A description of the
ANCESTRY.C Slave Narrative collection is included in this
documentation package. Given the easy accessibility of the
ANCESTRY.C materials, NARA then decided to preserve the 234
files related to the Cahalan donation in TAR format anticipating
little reference on the Cahalan materials.
The source materials for these files are 80-column IBM
punchcards. During the course of the conversion, NARA staff
noticed that a number of characters appeared to be mis-punched,
resulting in "dirty" electronic files. NARA "verified" these
National Archives and Records Administration
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files by reading each file as it was converted to see that each
line of text logically followed one another. The cards did not
contain any sort field or citation to the original source
materials. The first card in each logical set (i.e. narrative)
includes the name of the interviewee and a code indicating state
and, we presume, a unique WPA interview number.
The cards were converted sequentially as stored and transferred
by Dr. Cahalan. NARA did not attempt to sort the cards, but in
a few cases did move some cards to correct obvious mis-sorting
of text or identification cards. NARA did not attempt to
correct text characters that were obviously in error. On
occasions where numerous text errors were noted, NARA re-read
the punchcard decks to see whether the punchcard reader was at
fault. NARA discovered that original mis-punching of the cards
caused most errors. Users should be aware that these errors
potentially exist. In addition, in the conversion process files
were captured electronically by highlighting the text on the
screen and saving the text into an electronic ASCII file.
Because of this process sometimes the last record of the file
may not have been fully "captured," resulting in a final record
of something less than 80-characters. NARA decided to retain
the original punchcards for users to compare the original to the
converted cards.
Finally, users should reference the published Slave Narratives
to determine the correct characters in the electronic files.
The citation is the Works Progress Administration. Federal
Writers Project. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in
the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
Washington, D.C.: n.p.
THEODORE J. HULL
Archivist
Center for Electronic Records
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What's Old is New Again! (article published in National Archives
Assembly newsletter, January 2000)
Are you aware of computer punchcards among NARA's textual
records holdings?
Did you run across some permanent punchcards during the WNRC
cleanout?
Peripheral Dynamics Inc. recently went into its antique parts
bin and manufactured a new, 1984 vintage punchcard
reader/converter for the Electronic and Special Media Records
Services Division (NWME) SO it could preserve such records. The
reader processes punchcards into a contemporary computer format
by passing light through the punchs and converting the
configuration into the appropriate character. This will allow
NARA to preserve and provide access to the records
electronically.
The first big test of the punchcard reader was to convert a set
of donated historical materials from Dr. Jim Cahalan, formerly
of the Center for Urban Ethnology, University of Pennsylvania.
The conversion of the records is complete and NWME is now
preserving the files electronically. Ted Hull of NWME is
processing this collection and Ijeoma Enendu, a new member of
the NWME staff, completed the conversion.
In the early-1970's, Dr. Cahalan created punchcards containing
the text of over 200 "slave narratives" - transcripts of the
Federal Writers Project, Works Projects Administration,
interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930's. One of
the products of his research, and the reason for converting them
to punchcards, was to analyze the dialect and speech patterns of
former slaves. After leaving the University, Dr. Cahalan stored
the punchcard decks in the basement of his home in Pennsylvania.
In 1998, he contacted NWME about the possibility of donating the
cards to NARA and having them converted to an electronic format
for further processing and analysis. NWME initially sent the
cards to the former NARA computer center in St. Louis (NHTOS),
but they could not process the cards. The NARA computer center
shutdown their punchcard processing operations (the IBM 2540) in
the summer of 1998. NWME decided to pursue obtaining a
punchcard reader, not only to process the slave narratives, but
to provide NARA with the capability of converting punchcard
records found among NARA's textual records holdings. The first
test of this new capability has been extremely successful!
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If you happen to run across a collection of punchcards that you
think should be converted to a contemporary electronic format,
please contact Tom Brown, NWME, by e-mail or at 301-713-6630,
ext. 232.
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Slave Narrative Finding Aid
Box 1
(Files F001_min (Muse Minser) through F019_sel (Abram Sells) )
1.
Muse Minser
1255-ARK/#006
F001_min
2.
Joe Barnes
1547PTEX/#007
F002_bar
3.
Bettie Suber
449-SC/#008
F003_sub
4.
Bill Crump
0054-NC/#13
F004_cru
5.
Tina Johnson
-NC/#012
F005_joh
6.
Henry James Trentham
177-NC/#13
F006_tre
7.
Eliza Jones
1176-ARK/#014
F007_jon
8.
Nellie Dunne
998-ARK/#015
F008_dun
9.
Robert Shepherd
0737-GEO/#016
F009 she
10.
Lizzie Johnson
1162-ARK/#017
F010_joh
11.
Hattie Anne Nettles
ALA/#018
F011_net
12.
Emma Jones
545-Ala/#018
F012_jon
13.
Ed Barber
202-SC/#21
F013_bar
14.
Sarah Harris
0086-NC/#022
F014 har
15.
George Simmons
1777-Tex/#023
F015_sim
16.
Easter Norris
366-SC/#24
F016_nor
17.
Katherine Eppes
514-ALA/#25
F017_epp
18.
Henrietta Evelin Smith
1397-ARK/#026
F018_smi
19.
Abram Sells
1773-TEX/#027
F019_sel
Box 2
(Files F020_bra (William Branch) through F038_sla (Richard Slaughter) )
20.
Willi M Branch
1573-TEX/#030
F020_bra
21.
Heyword Ford
516-ALA/#032
F021_for
22.
Clara Brim
1574-TEX/#033
F022_bri
23.
Delia Garlic
519-ALA/#036
F023_gar
24.
Cynthia Jones
1174-ALA/#37
F024_jon
25.
Liza Menton
0715-GEO/#039
F025_men
26.
Joe Clinton
0950-ARK/#040
F026_cli
(followed by 3 misc. cards)
27.
Iran Nelson
1286-ARK/#044
F027 nel
28.
Lizzie Jones
1686-TEX/#045
F028_jon
29.
Tom Mcalpin
556-ALA/#046
F029_mca
30.
Jeptha Choice
1595-TEX/#047
F030_cho
31.
Solomon P. Patillo
1311-ARK/#048
F031_pat
32.
Isom Rogers
1353-ARK/#050
F032_rog
33.
Joe Tillman
1440-ARK/#051
F033_til
34.
Dolly Whiteside
1486-ARK/#052
F034_whi
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35.
Nellie Johnson
OK/#053
F035_joh
36.
George McAlilley
376-SC/#055
F036_mca
37.
John Ellis
1626-TEX/#056
F037_ell
38.
Richard Slaughter
0013-VA_/#057
F038_sla
Box 3
(Files F039_duc (Mama Duck) to F058_mcl (Jake Mcleod) )
39.
Mama Duck
0786-FLA/#058
F039_duc
40.
Martha Allen
0018-NC/#059
F040_all
41.
Everette Ingram
538-ALA/#060
F041_ing
42.
Fanny Johnson
1157-ARK/#062
F042_joh
43.
Molly Ammonds
479-ALA/#066
F043 amm
44.
James Spikes
1403-ARK/#063
F044_spi
45. John Boyd
212-SC/#065
F045_boy
46.
Emma Jeter
344-SC/#068
F046_jet
47.
Bob Samuels
1368-ARK/#070
F047_sam
48.
Jake McLeod
SC NE. 107 Age-83
F058_mcl
(Repeated 2x; split between box 3&4)
49.
Philip Evans
Slave in SC#82
F057_eva
50.
Washington Dozier
Slave in SC#75
F056_doz
51.
NC175/NC151-2 Sets
same interview
F055_NC151
Box 4.
(Files F051_you (George Young) to F055_NC151) )
52.
George Young
Alabama (repeated 2x)
F051_you
53.
George Taylor
AL. A6 (16)
F052_tay
54.
Henrietta McCullers
0118-NC/#072
F049_mcc
55.
Sarah Louise Augustus
0024-NC/#074
F050_aug
56.
Robert Barr
0881-ARK/#071
F048_bar
57.
2nd part of McLeod
(data 1)
F059_dat
58. Data 1
F059_dat
59. SC119
F060_dat119
60.
Jasper Battle
GA, #40
F061_bat
61.
Partial Repeat of NC- 151
NARA Reference Copy
Box 5
(Files F062_joh (Benjamin Johnson) to F074_gui (Lee Guidon) )
62.
Benjamin Johnson
GA, #49
F062_joh
63.
James Campbell
W.VA #127
F063_cam
64.
Fleming Clark
Age 74, OH #128
F064_cla
65.
Robert Falls
Slave, NC, TN #145
F065_fal
66.
[MISS #139]
F066_miss
67.
Morris Sheppard
Age 85 OK#34
F067_she
68.
James Campbell
W.VA Ohio #127
F068_cam
69. Robert Falls
NC, TN #145
F069_fal
Box 6
(Files F070_leo (Joseph Leonides) to F080_dra (Joanna Draper) )
70.
Joseph Leonides
Age 81, TN #148
F070_leo
(name card moved to front of set)
71.
Charley Williams
Okla #37
F071_wil
72.
Morris Shephard
Age 85, OK #34
F072_she
73.
Allen V. Manning
MS, Okla #30
F073_man
74.
Joanna Draper
Slave in MS
F080_dra
75.
Mary Grayson
Indian Terr
F081_gra
76.
Ben Simpson
Slave in GA. and TX
F082_sim
77.
Lee Guidon
Slave in SC
F074_gui
Box 7
(Files F075_kin (Nicey Kinney) to F084_bet (Ellen Betts) )
75.
Nicey Kenny
Slave in GA
F075_kin
76.
Tines Kendricks
Slave in GA
F076 ken
77.
Mariah Robinson
Slave in GA and TX
F077_rob
78.
Katie Rowe
Slave in AR
F078_row
79.
Cato
Slave in AL
F079_cat
83.
Mary Reynolds
Slave in LA
F083_rey
84.
Ellen Betts
Slave in LA
F084_bet
Box 8
(Files F085_wal (Ned Walker) to F100_non (No Name) )
85.
Ned walker
Sample 1 #SC/122
F085_wal
86.
Benjamin Russell
[Data 1, SC 119]
F086_rus
87.
George Briggs
Slave in SC #61
F087_bri
NARA Reference Copy
88. Andrew Goodman
Slave in ALA,
F088_goo
89. Willis Winn
Slave in LA,
F089_win
90.
Harry Johnson
Slave in AR & TX
F090_joh
91.
James Hayes
Slave in TEX,
F091_hay
92.
Jasper Battle
Slave, GEO #40
F101_bat
93.
No Name
GEO #49 [Data #3]
F100_non
Box 9
(F099_gra (Arnold Gragston) to F103_you ( George Young) )
94.
Arnold Gragston
Slave in GA
F099_gra
95.
Jake Mcleod
[SC #107]
F098_mcl
96.
Washington Dozier
Slave in SC,
F097_doz
97. Susan Snow
Slave in MS,
F096_sno
98. Henry Lewis
Slave in TEX,
F094_lew
99.
Charley Hurt
Slave in GA,
F093_hur
100. Albert Hill
Slave in GA,
F092_hil
101.
George Taylor
ALA #16
F102_tay
102.
George Young
ALA #20
F103_you
Box 10
(Files F104_mar (Isaac Martin) to F118_mcc (Willie McCullough) )
103.
Isaac Martin
TEX #223
F104_mar
104.
Phillip Evans
SC #82
F105_eva
105.
Fleming Clark
Ohio #128
F106_cla
106.
Charley Willams
Okla [okla37]
F107_wil
107.
Andrew Goodman
Tex #207
F108_goo
108.
Albert Hill
TEX #212
F110A_hil
109. Willie McCullough
-NC/#
F118_mcc
Box 11
(Files F110A_hil (Albert Hill) to F111_mar))
110A. Albert Hill
110.
Ransom Sidney
-NC/#
F117_tay
111.
Ben Johnson
-NC/#
F116_joh
112.
Sam Mcallum
Miss #139
F115_mca
113.
Henry Lewis
TEX #222
F114_lew
114. Harry Johnson
TEX #219
F113_joh
NARA Reference Copy
115. Charly Hurt
TEX #215
F112_hur
116. Isaac Martin
TEX #223
F111_mar
Box 12
(Files F119_sco (William Scott) to F137_joh (Manuel Johnson) )
117. William Scott
-NC/#
F119_sco
118.
Simuel Riddick
-NC/#
F120_rid
119. Tillie
-NC/#406
F121_til
120.
Hannah Plummer
-NC/#404
F122_plu
121.
Amy Penny
-NC/#408
F123_pen
122.
Jane Lee
-NC/#360
F124_lee
123.
Jane Arrington
-NC/#344
F125_arr
124.
Addy Gill
78-NC/#434
F126_gil
125.
Rosa Green
1643-TEX/ #281
F127_gre
126.
Elson Lyles
0374-SC/#282
F128_lyl
127.
Richard Carruthers
1591-TEX/#285
F129_car
128.
Nina Scott
0436-SC / #291
F130_sco
129.
Mandy Leslie
0551-ALA/#290
F131_les
130.
Sarah Anderson
0862-ARK/#102
F132_and
131.
Lucy Daniels
0247-SC_/#191
F133_dan
132.
Allen Price
1748-TEX/#195
F134_pri
133.
Jim Henry
0324-SC_/#196
F135_hen
134.
No Name #ALA #199
0498-ALA/#199
F136_non
135.
Manuel Johnson
0691-GEO/#200
F137_joh
Box 13
(Files F138_gre (William Green) to F154_cov (Mandy Coversion)
136.
William Green
1644-TEX/#204
F138_gre
137.
Catherine Williams
0181-NC/ #212
F139_wil
138.
Mary Raines
0410-SC/#221
F140_rai
139.
Harrison Boyd
1562-TEX/#219
F141_boy
140.
Harre Quarls
1754-TEX/#206
F142_qua
141.
Margaret E. Dickens
0064-NC#210
F143_dic
142.
John Coggin
0047_NC/#249
F144_cog
143.
Millie Markham
0124-NC/ #211
F145_mar
144.
Mindy Coversion
0048-NC/ #292
F146_cov
145.
Mack Taylor
0451-SC/#255
F147_tay
146. Mariah Snyder
1785-TEX/#250
F148_sny
NARA Reference Copy
147.
James Bolton
0017-GEO/#257
F149_bol
148.
Charlie Hudson
0676-GEO/ #262
F150_hud
149.
Essex Henry
0091-NC/#158 [S2]
F151_hen
150.
Lucy Ann Dunn
0068-NC/#533 [S2]
F152_dun
151.
Cra M. Flagg
0074-NC/#186 [S2]
F153_fla
152.
Mandy Coversion
0048-NC/#292 [S2]
F154_cov
Box 14
(Files F155_cog (John Coggin) to F170_mac (Richard Mack)
153. John Coggin
0047-NC/#249 [S2]
F155_cog
154. Millie Marham
0124-NC/#211 [S2]
F156_mar
155. Doc Edwards
0071-NC/#182 [S2]
F157_edw
156.
Margaret Dickens
0064-NC/#210 [S2]
F158_dic
157.
Chana Littlejohn
0115-NC/#347 [S2]
F159_lit
158. Parker Pool
Age 91, NC #175
F160_poo
159.
Old Susan Hamlin
0315-SC_/#287
F161_ham
160.
Julia Brown
[Y15]
F162_bro
161.
Sallie Paul
0399-SC /#205
F163_pau
162.
Josh Hart
0536-ALA/#223
F169_har
163. Richard Mack
0378-SC/ #207
F170_mac
Box 15
(Files F164_ray (Henry Ryan) to F178_Moo (Annie Moore)
164.
Henry Ryan
F164-rya
165.
Jacob Branch
1572-TEX/ #216
F165_bra
166.
Joe Rutherford
0428-SC/ #240
F166_rut
167.
Louisa Davis
0256-SC/#222
F167_dav
168. Jim Gillard
0524-ALA/ #232
F168_gil
169.
A M Moore
1724-TEX/#242
F171_moo
170.
William Oliver
0395-SC/#217
F172_oli
171.
Robert Heard
0669-GEO/#229
F173_hea
172.
Solbert Butler
0228-SC/ #271
F174_but
173.
Sarah Poindexter
0405-SC/ #275
F175_poi
174.
Hannah Jones
0546-ALA/#277
F176_jon
175.
Neal Upson
0753-GEO/#233
F177_ups
176.
Annie Moore
0129-NC/#349
F1.78_moo
NARA Reference Copy
Box 16
(Files F179_war (William Ward) to F193_ald (Callie Alder) )
177.
William Ward
0758-GEO/#361
F179_war
178. Bob Mobley
0728-GEO/#362
F180_mob
179.
James West
1816-TEX/#365
F181_wes
180. Mandy
0558-ALA/#433
F182_man
181.
Reverend W E Northcross
0505-ALA/#363
F183_nor
182.
Mary Overton
1737-TEX/#355
F184_ove
183.
John Moody
1704-TEX/#370
F185_moo
184.
Nancy King
1692-TEX/#309
F186_kin
185.
Thomas Cole
1598-TEX/#343
F187_col
186. Pauline Worth
0473-SC/#318
F188_wor
187.
Nannie Bradfield
0490-ALA/#308
F189_bra
188.
Martha Spence Bunton
1583-TEX/#334
F190_bun
189.
Charlotte Beverly
1559-TEX/#325
F191_bev
190.
Harriet Barret
1549-TEX/#368
F192_bar
191. Calli Alder
0643-GEO/#353
F193_ald
Box 17
(Files F194_gar (Angie Garrett) to F203_spa (Mom Jessie Sparrow)
192.
Angie Garrett
0519-ALA/#335
F194_gar
193. Frank Gill
0523-ALA/#319
F195_gil
194.
Adeline Hodges
0522-ALA/#316
F196_hod
195.
Tom Wilcox
0180-NC/#327
F197_wil
196.
Millie Bates
205-SC/#333
F198_bat
197. Aaron Ford
0278-SC/#
F199_for
198.
Henry Coleman
0240-SC/#
F200_col
199.
Mary Johnson
0352-SC/#
F201_joh
200.
Richard Jones
0355-SC/#
F202_jon
201.
Charlie Robinson
0422-SC/#
F203_rob
202.
Mom Jessie Sparrow
0466-SC/#
F204_spa
Box 18
(Files F204_lee (David Lee) to F212_blo (David Blont)
203. David Lee
TF/#001
F204_lee
204. Unknown
TF/#003
F205_non
205.
Isaac Adams
[Y1]
F206_ada
206.
Lucretia Alexander
[Y2]
F207_ale
NARA Reference Copy
207. Frank Bell
[Y5]
F208_bel
208. Mary A. Bell
[Y6]
F209_bel
209. Virginia Bell
[Y7]
F210_bel
210. Boston Blackwell
[Y8]
F211_bla
211.
David Blont
[Y9]
F212_blo
Box 19
(Files F213_boo (Andrew Boone) to F224_joh (Prince Johnson) )
212.
Andrew Boone
[Y10]
F213_boo
213.
W L Bost
[Y11]
F214_bos
214.
James Cape
[Y16]
F215_cap
215. Henry Cheatam
[Y18]
F216_che
216.
Peter Clifton
[Y19]
F217_cli
217.
Martha Colquitt
[Y20]
F218_col
218. Cheney Cross
[Y21]
F219_cro
219. Katie Darling
[Y22]
F220_dar
220.
Tempie Herndon
[Y49]
F221 her
221. Martin Jackson
[Y53]
F222_jac
222. Silas Jackson
[Y54]
F223_jac
223. Prince Johnson
[Y58]
F224_joh
Box 20
(Files F225_jon (Richard Jones) to F229_dicfile.1 (dictionary file pt. 1)
224.
Richard Jones
[Y59]
F225_jon
225. 9 misc. cards
F226_car
226. John Brown
[Y14]
F227_bro
227.
Gus Feaster
SC, #83
F228_fea
228.
Dictionary file pt. 1
F229_dicfile.1
Box 21
(Dictionary File pt. 2)
229. Dictionary File- part 2
F230_dicfile.2
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MAR-11-98 WED 05:15 AM MANSFIELD PLANTATION INC 717 426 2372
P.01
MANSFIELD PLANTATION INC.
1776 MANSFIELD ROAD
GEORGETOWN, SC 29440
803-546-6961
TO: Ted Hall, Center for Electronic Media (301-713-6911 fax)
FROM: Jim Cahalan (803-546-5235 fax)
Thank you for taking time to help me with my data conversion
problem.
The material I have on hollerith cards are interviews with ex-slaves
taken during the 1930s under the auspices of the WPA; 2,200
interviews with ex-slaves were taken in southern states by the WPA.
Additional interviews were collected by separate state projects.
These interviews have been used extensively by scholars of slavery
in the United Stated (for instance, Eugene Genovese's ROLL, JORDAN,
ROLL (New York, 1974)).
Typescripts of the interviews were deposited in the Library of
Congress, and in the individual state archives. The Library of
Congress made the collection available on microfilm. In 1972
Greenwood Press published the collection in nineteen volumes titled
THE AMERICAN SLAVE: A COMPOSITE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. I am sending herewith
a copy of the title page of this publication, and a brief
introduction to the project by Benjamin Btnik, the WPA project
director.
The material I have is a random sample of 500 of the WPA'a 2200
interviews. So far as I know it is the only machine readable version
of this material.
As we discussed, I would be willing to donate this material to
preserve it, and to have it converted to standard magnetic media. I
understand that the National Archives can do the conversion, and
that a copy of the material would be provided to me on diskette.
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P.02
THE AMERICAN SLAVE:
A COMPOSITE
THE AMERICAN SLAVE:
A COMPOSITE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Series One
Valume :: From Sundown to Sunup: The Making of
1
the Black Community
2: South Carolina Narratives, Parts 1 and I
MAR-11-98 WED 05:16 AM MANSFIELD PLANTATION INC 717 426 2372
Volume Volume 3: South Carolina Narratives, Parts 3 and 4
Volume Volume 5: Texas Narratives, Parts 3 and 4
4: Texas Narratives, Part , and 2
FROM SUNDOWN TO SUNUP
Volume 6: Alabama and Indiana Narratives
The Making of
Volume
7: Oklahoma and Mississippi Narratives
the Black Community
Series Two
Volume 8: Arkansas Narratives, Parts I and 2
Volume 9: Arkansas Narratives, Parts 3 and 4
Volume 10: Arkansas Narratives, Parts s and 6
Volome
: Arkansas Narratives, Part 7. and
GEORGE P. RAWICK
Missouri Narratives
Volume 12:
Georgia Narratives, Parts ' and 2
Volume 13:
Georgia Narratives, Parts 3 and 4
Volume 14:
North Carolina Narratives, Parts I and 2
Contribucions in Afro-American and
Volume 15:
North Carolina Narratives, Parts 3 and 4
African Studies
Volume 16:
Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio,
Number 11
Virginia, and Tennessee Narratives
Volume
Volume 18:
17: Unwritten History of Slavery (Fisk University)
Florida Narratives
God Struck Me Dead (Fisk University)
Volume 19:
P
GREENWOOD PUBLISHING COMPANY
WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT
1972
166 / APPENDIXES
Not only has this work slighted the historical development of
the black community, it has not emphasized the regional differences
in American slavery. That has been done in order to establish certain
overall realities: there was a black community under slavery, there
SLAVE NARRATIVES*
was the development of distinct Afro-American behavior patterns
(for example, black religion), slaves were treated harshly but the
A Folk History of Slavery in the United States
were able to resist in specific ways, and so forth. But the slave narra
From Interviews with Former Slaves
tives offer wonderfully clear material on regional differences. For ex
ample, the Texas narratives are filled with accounts of black COW
boys and black slave cowboys. It is clear that the slave cowbo
had much more individual autonomy than did slave field hand
on cotton plantations. It is hoped that these narratives will be utilize
TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY
MAR-11-98 WED 05:17 AM MANSFIELD PLANTATION INC 426 2372
to probe such differences, and their relationships to regional diffe
ences, as we!! as to develop 2 comprehensive picture of the change
THE FEDERAL WRITERS PROJECT
1936-1938
in slave life.
ASSEMBLED BY
This volume is an introduction to a body of material in while
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT
the slaves speak for themselves. If the volume is to have any. me
WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
beyond the presentation of the views of the author on certain TH
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
ters concerning American slavery and racism, it will come
SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
its linkage with the slave narratives-a body of material intrinsic
of greater significance because it presents the reflections upon't
experiences of those who were there, who suffered, and wholl
for themselves and those who were to come after them a way
life upon which people stand and challenge modern Amer
Illustrated with Photographs
society.
Notes
1. There is, despite a flurry of recent republications of some
slave narratives, only the beginning of an awareness of the importar
these documents. Even when the complete WPA narratives will be put
INDIANA NARRATIVES
there will remain scores of items either unpublished or published
nineteenth century in obscure places (such as church bulletins
newspapers) not generally available.
2. Fisk University, "God Struck Me Dead," mimeographed (N
Social Science Institute, 1945); Fisk University, "Unwritten History
ery," mimeographed (Nashville: Social Science Institute, 1945). "Gy H.
Me Dead" was republished, with an introduction by Clifron.
by Pilgrim Press of Philadelphia in 1969. The "Unwritten History
was republished by Microcard Editions of Washington, D.C.,
WASHINGTON 1941
3. Sterling Sruckey, "Twilight of Our Past: Reflections on
of Black History," Amistad 2 (1971) :261-295.
Front matter of the Work Projects Administration Project.
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INTRODUCTION
FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY
WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
I
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
This collection of slave narratives had its beginning in the second
year of the former Federal Writers' Project (now the Writers' Pro-
gram), 1936, when several state Writers' Projects-notably those of
Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina-recorded interviews with ex-
slaves residing in those states. On April 22, 1937, a standard questionnaire
Paul Edwards, Administrator
for field workers drawn up by John A. Lomax, then National Advisor
MAR-11-98 WED 05:17 AM MANSFIELD PLANTATION INC 717 426 2372
Amelle S. Fair, Director, Division of Community Service Programs
on Folklore and Folkways for the Federal Writers' Project,' was issued
Mary Nan Gamble, Chief, Public Activities Programs
from Washington as "Supplementary Instructions #9-E to The Ameri-
can Guide Manual" (appended below). Also associated with the direc-
tion and criticism of the work in the Washington office of the Federal
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT
Writers' Project were Henry G. Alsberg, Director; George Cronyn,
Official Project No. 165-2-26-7
Associate Director; Scerling A. Brown, Editor on Negro Affairs; Mary
Work Project No. 540
Lloyd, Editor; and B. A. Botkin, Folklore Editor succeeding Mr. Lomax.'
On August 31, 1939, the Federal Writers' Project became the Writers'
Program, and the National Technical Project in Washington was termi-
nated. On October 17, the first Library of Congress Project, under
the sponsorship of the Library of Congress, was set up by the Work
Projects Administration in the District of Columbia, to continue some
Mary Nan Gamble, Acting Project Supervisor
of the functions of the National Technical Project, chiefly those con-
Francesco M. Bianco, Assistant Project Supervisor
cerned with books of a regional or nationwide scope. On February
B. A. Botkin, Chief Editor, Writers' Unit
12, 1940, the project was reorganized along strictly conservation lines,
and on August 16 it was succeeded by the present Library of Congress
Project (Official Project No. 165-2-26-7, Work Project No. 540).
The present Library of Congress Project, under the sponsorship of
the Library of Congress, is a unit of the Public Activities Program of
the Community Service Programs of the Work Projects Administration
, Mr. Lomax served from June 25, 1936, to October 13, 1937. with a ninety-
day furlough beginning July 24, 1937. According to a memorandum written by
Mr. Alsberg on March i3, 1937, Mr. Lomax was "in charge of the collection of
folklore all over the United States for the Writers' Project. In connection with
this work he is making recordings of Negro songs and cowboy ballads. Though
technically on the payroll of che Survey of Historical Records, his work is
done for the Writers and the results will make several national volumes of
folklore. The essays in the State Guides devoted to folklore are also under his
supervision." Since '933 Mr. Lomax has been Honorary Curator of the Archive
of American Folk Song, Library of Congress.
' Folklore Consultant, from May 2 to July 31, 1938; Folklore Editor, from
August 1, 1938, to August 31, 1939.
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FRONT MATTER OF THE WPA PROJECT / 171
for the District of Columbia. According to the Project Proposal (WPA
II
Form 301). the purpose of the Project is to "collect, check, edit, index,
and otherwise prepare for use WPA records, Professional and Service
Set beside the work of formal historians, social scientists, and novelists,
Projects." The Writers' Unit of the Library of Congress Project processes mate-
slave autobiographies, and contemporary records of abolitionists and
planters, these life histories, taken down as far as possible in the narrators'
rial left over from or not needed for publication by the state Writers'
words, constitute an invaluable body of unconscious evidence or indirect
Projects. On file in the Washington office in August, 1939, was a large
source material, which scholars and writers dealing with the South,
body of slave narratives, photographs of former slaves, interviews with
especially, social psychologists and cultural anthropologists, cannot
white informants regarding slavery, transcripts of laws. advertisements,
afford to reckon without. For the first and the last time, a large number
records of sale, transfer, and manumission of slaves, and other documents.
of surviving slaves (many of whom have since died) have been permitted
As unpublished manuscripts of the Federal Writers' Project these records
to tell their own story, in their own way. In spite of obvious limitations-
passed into the hands of the Library of Congress Project for processing;
bias and fallibility of both informants and interviewers, the use of leading
and from chem: has been assembled the present collection of some two
questions, unskilled techniques, and insufficient controls and checks-chis
thousand narratives from the following seventeen states: Alabama,
saga must remain the most authentic and colorful source of our knowl-
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mis-
edge of the lives and thoughts of thousands of slaves, of their attitudes
sissippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
roward one another, toward their masters, mistresses, and overseers,
Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.'
toward poor whites, North and South, the Civil War, Emancipation,
MAR-11-98 WED 05:18 MANSFIELD PLANTATION 426 2372
The work of the Writers' Unit in preparing the narratives for deposit
Reconstruction, religion, education, and virtually every phase of Negro
in the Library of Congress consisted principally of arranging the manu-
life in the South.
scripts and photographs by states and alphabetically by informants
The narratives belong to folk history-history recovered from the
within the states, listing the informants and illustrations, and collating
memories and lips of participants or eye-witnesses, who mingle group
the contents in seventeen volumes divided into thirty-chree parts. The
with individual experience and both with observation, hearsay, and rradi-
following material has been omitted: Most of the interviews with in-
tion. Whether the narrators relate what they actually saw and thought
formants born too late to remember anything of significance regarding
and felt, what they imagine, or what they have rhought and felt about
slavery or concerned chiefly with folklore; a few negligible fragments
slavery since, now we know why chey thought and felt as they did.
and unidentified manuscripts; a group of Tennessee interviews showing
To the white myth of slavery must be added the slaves' own folklore
evidence of plagiarism; and the supplementary material gathered in
and folk-say of slavery. The patterns they reveal are folk and regional
connection with the narratives. In the course of the preparation of
patterns-the patterns of field hand, house and body servant, and artisan;
these volumes, the Writers' Unit compiled data for an essay on the
the patterns of kind and cruel master or mistress; the patterns of South-
narratives and partially completed an index and a glossary. Enough
east and Southwest, lowland and upland, ridewater and inland, smaller
additional material is being received from the state Writers' Projects,
and larger plantations, and racial mixture (including Creole and Indian).
25 part of their surplus, to make a supplement, which, it is hoped,
The narratives belong also to folk literature. Rich not only in falk
will contain several states not here represented, such as Louisiana.
songs, folk tales, and folk speech but also in folk humor and poetry,
All editing had previously been done in the scares or the Washington
crude or skilful in dialect, uneven in tone and treatment, they constantly
office. Some of the pencilled comments have been identified as those
reward one with earthy imagery, salty phrase, and sensitive detail. In
of John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax, who also read the manuscripts.
their unconscious art, exhibited in many a fine and powerful short
In a few cases, two drafts or versions of the same interview have been
story, they are a contribution to the realistic writing of the Negro.
included for comparison of interesting variations or alterations.
Beneath all the surface contradictions and exaggerations, the fantasy
and flattery, they possess an essential truth and humanity which surpasses
as it supplements history and literature.
'The bulk of the Virginia narratives is still in the state office. Excerpts from
these are included in The Negro in Virginia, compiled by Workers of the
Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Vis-
Washington, D.C.
B. A. Botkin
ginia, Sponsored by the Hampton Institute, Hastings House, Publishers, New Sur-
York, 1940. Other slave narratives are published in Drims and Shadows,
June 12, '94'
Chief Edicor, Writers' Unit
vival Studies among the Georgia Coastal Negroes, Savannah Unit, Georgia
Library of Congress Project
Writers' Project, Work Projects Administration, University of Georgia Press,
A composite article, "Slaves," based on excerpts from three interviews,
was 1940. contributed by Elizabeth Lomax to the American Stuff issue of Direction,
Vol. 1, No. 3. 1938.
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Conducted by the Work Projects Administration, 1936-38
Center for Urban Ethnology, University of Pennsylvania
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Conducted by the Work Projects Administration, 1936-38, to the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) on computer punch cards. The punch cards were converted by NWME to
ASCII data files with DOS labels (see separate description of the conversion project). NARA chose
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(APSTAR) utility on job 00-0899. This utility created one TAR file by concatenating or grouping
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A6 (16)]\nF052_tay.TXT\n2610930\nGeorge Taylor [ALA #16]\nF102_tay.TXT\n2610930\nGeorge Young [Alabama (repeated 2x)]\nF051_you.TXT\n2610929\nGeorge Young [ALA #20]\nF103_you.TXT\n2610929\nGus Feaster [SC, #83]\nF228_fea.TXT\n2611111\nHannah Jones [0546-ALA/#277]\nF176_jon.TXT\n2611057\nHannah Plummer [NC/#404]\nF122_plu.TXT\n2611002\nHarre Quarls [1754-TEX/#206]\nF142_qua.TXT\n2611022\nHarriet Barret [1549-TEX/#368]\nF192_bar.TXT\n2611073\nHarrison Boyd [1562-TEX/#219]\nF141_boy.TXT\n2611021\nHarry Johnson [Slave in AR & TX]\nF090_joh.TXT\n2610970\nHarry Johnson [TEX #219]\nF113_joh.TXT\n2610970\nHattie Anne Nettles [ALA/#018]\nF011_net.TXT\n2610889\nHenrietta Evelin Smith [1397-ARK/#026]\nf018_smi.txt\n2610896\nHenrietta McCullers [0118-NC/#072]\nf049_mcc.txt\n2610927\nHenry Bobbitt [NC175/NC151-Set 1]\nF053_nc151.TXT\n2610931\nHenry Coleman [0240-SC/#333]\nF199B_col.TXT\n2611081\nHenry Cheatam #ALA #199 [0498-ALA/#199]\nF136_non.TXT\n2611016\nHenry Cheatam #ALA #199 [0498-ALA/#199]\nF135_hen.TXT\n2611016\nHenry Cheatam [Y18]\nF216_che.TXT\n2611016\nHenry James Trentham [177-NC/#13]\nF006_tre.txt\n2610884\nHenry Lewis [TEX #222]\nF114_lew.TXT\n2610994\nHenry Ryan\nF164_rya.TXT\n2611044\nHeyword Ford [516-ALA/#032]\nf021_for.txt\n2610899\nIran Nelson [1286-ARK/#044]\nf027_nel.txt\n2610905\nIsaac Adams [Y1]\nF206_ada.TXT\n2611088\nIsaac Martin [TEX #223]\nF104_mar.TXT\n2610983\nIsaac Martin [TEX #223]\nF111_mar.TXT\n2610983\nIsom Rogers [1353-ARK/#050]\nF032_rog.txt\n2610910\nNARA Reference Copy\nJacob Branch [1572-TEX/#216]\nF165_bra.TXT\n2611045\nJake McLeod [SC NE. 107 Age-83]\nF058_mcl.TXT\n2610936\nJake Mcleod [SC #107]\nF098_mcl.TXT\n2610936\nJake McLeod 2nd part\nF058_mcl2.TXT\n2610936\nJames Bolton [0017-GEO/ #257]\nF149_bol.TXT\n2611029\nJames Campbell [W.VA #127]\nF063_cam.TXT\n2610942\nJames Campbell [W.VA Ohio #127]\nF068_cam.TXT\n2610942\nJames Cape [Y16]\nF215_cap.TXT\n2611098\nJames Hayes [Slave in TEX]\nF091_hay.TXT\n2610971\nJames Hayes\nF109_non.TXT\n2610971\nJames Spikes [1403-ARK/#063]\nF044_spi.TXT\n2610922\nJames West [1816-TEX/#365]\nF181_wes.TXT\n2611062\nJane Arrington [NC/#344]\nF125_arr.TXT\n2611005\nJane Lee [NC/#360]\nF124_lee.TXT\n2611004\nJasper Battle [GA, #40]\nF061_bat.TXT\n2610940\nJasper Battle [Slave in GA #40]\nF101_bat.TXT\n2610940\nJeptha Choice [1595-TEX/#047]\nF030_cho.txt\n2610908\nJim Gillard [0524-ALA/ #232]\nF168_gil.TXT\n2611048\nJoanna Draper [Slave in MS]\nF080_dra.TXT\n2610960\nJoe Barnes [1547-TEX/#007]\nf002_bar.txt\n2610880\nJoe Clinton, Followed by three miscellaneous cards\nf026_cli.txt\n2610904\n[0950-ARK/#040]\nJoe Rutherford [0428-SC/ #240]\nF166_rut.TXT\n2611046\nJoe Tillman [1440-ARK/#051]\nf033_til.txt\n2610911\nJohn Boyd [212-SC/#065]\nF045_boy.TXT\n2610923\nJohn Brown [Y14]\nF227_bro.TXT\n2611110\nJohn Coggin [0047_NC/#249]\nF144_cog.TXT\n2611024\nJohn Coggin [0047-NC/#249 [S2]]\nF155_cog.TXT\n2611024\nJohn Ellis [1626-TEX/#056]\nf037_ell.txt\n2610915\nJohn Moody [1704-TEX/#370]\nF185_moo.TXT\n2611066\nJoseph Leonides [Age 81, TN #148]\nF070_leo.TXT\n2610949\nJosh Hart [0536-ALA/#223]\nF169_har.TXT\n2611049\nJulia Brown [Y15]\nF162_bro.TXT\n2611042\nKatherine Eppes [514-ALA/#25]\nf017_epp.txt\n2610895\nKatie Darling [Y22]\nF220_dar.TXT\n2611103\nKatie Rowe [Slave in AR]\nF078_row.TXT\n2610958\nLee Guidon [Slave in SC]\nF074_gui.TXT\n2610954\nLiza Menton [0715-GEO/#039]\nf025_men.txt\n2610903\nLizzie Johnson [1162-ARK/#017]\nF010_joh.TXT\n2610888\nLizzie Jones [1686-TEX/#045]\nf028_jon.txt\n2610906\nLouisa Davis [0256-SC/#222]\nF167_dav.TXT\n2611047\nLucretia Alexander [Y2]\nF207_ale.TXT\n2611089\nNARA Reference Copy\nLucy Ann Dunn [0068-NC/#533 [S2]]\nF152_dun.TXT\n2611032\nLucy Daniels [0247-SC_/#191]\nF133_dan.TXT\n2611013\nMack Taylor [0451-SC/#255]\nF147_tay.TXT\n2611027\nMama Duck [0786-FLA/#058]\nf039_duc.txt\n2610917\nMandy [0558-ALA/#433]\nF182_man.TXT\n2611063\nMandy Coversion [0048-NC/#292 [S2]]\nF154_cov.TXT\n2611034\nMandy Leslie [0551-ALA/#290]\nF131_les.TXT\n2611011\nManuel Johnson [0691-GEO/#200]\nF137_joh.TXT\n2611017\nMargaret E. Dickens [0064-NC#210]\nF143_dic.TXT\n2611023\nMargaret Dickens [0064-NC/#210 [S2]]\nF158_dic.TXT\n2611023\nMariah Robinson [Slave in GA and TX]\nF077_rob.TXT\n2610957\nMariah Snyder [1785-TEX/#250]\nF148_sny.TXT\n2611028\nMartha Allen [0018-NC/#059]\nF040_all.TXT\n2610918\nMartha Colquitt [Y20]\nF218_col.TXT\n2611101\nMartha Spence Bunton [1583-TEX/#334]\nF190_bun.TXT\n2611071\nMartin Jackson [Y53]\nF222_jac.TXT\n2611105\nMary A. Bell [Y6]\nF209bel.TXT\n2611091\nMary Grayson [Indian Terr]\nF081_gra.TXT\n2610961\nMary Johnson [0352-SC/#]\nF200_joh.TXT\n2611082\nMary Overton [1737-TEX/#355]\nF184_ove.TXT\n2611065\nMary Raines [0410-SC/#221]\nF140_rai.TXT\n2611020\nMary Reynolds [Slave in LA]\nF083_rey.TXT\n2610963\nMillie Bates [205-SC/#333]\nF198_bat.TXT\n2611079\nMillie Markham [0124-NC/ #211]\nF145_mar.TXT\n2611025\nMillie Marham [0124-NC/#211 [S2]]\nF156_mar.TXT\n2611025\nMindy Coversion [0048-NC/ #292]\nF146_cov.TXT\n2611026\nMolly Ammonds [479-ALA/#066]\nF043_amm.TXT\n2610921\nMom Jessie Sparrow [0466-SC/#]\nF203_spa.TXT\n2611085\nMorris Shephard [Age 85, OK #34]\nF072_she.TXT\n2610952\nMorris Sheppard [Age 85 OK#34]\nF067_she.TXT\n2610952\nMuse Minser [1255-ARK/#006]\nf001_min.txt\n2610879\nNancy King [1692-TEX/#309]\nF186_kin.TXT\n2611067\nNannie Bradfield [0490-ALA/#308]\nF189_bra.TXT\n2611070\nNeal Upson [0753-GEO/#233]\nF177_ups.TXT\n2611058\nNed Walker [Sample 1 #SC/122]\nF085_wal.TXT\n2610965\nNellie Dunne [998-ARK/#015]\nf008_dun.txt\n2610886\nNellie Johnson [OK/#053]\nf035_joh.txt\n2610913\nNicey Kenny [Slave in GA]\nF075_kin.TXT\n2610955\nNina Scott [0436-SC / #291]\nF130_sco.TXT\n2611010\nNine Miscellaneous Cards\nF226_misc..TXT\n2611109\nOld Susan Hamlin [0315-SC_/#287]\nF161_ham.TXT\n2611041\nNARA Reference Copy\nParker Pool [NC175/NC151-Set 2]\nF054_nc151.TXT\n2610932\nParker Pool [Age 91, NC #175]\nF160_poo.TXT\n2611040\nParker Pool [Partial Repeat of NC- 151]\nF055_nc151.TXT\n2611040\nPauline Worth [0473-SC/#318]\nF188_wor.TXT\n2611069\nPeter Clifton [Y19]\nF217_cli.TXT\n2611100\nPhillip Evans [SC #82]\nF105_eva.TXT\n2610984\nPrince Johnson [Y58]\nF224_joh.TXT\n2611107\nRansom Sidney Taylor [NC/#]\nF117_tay.TXT\n2610997\nReverend W.E. Northcross [0505-ALA/#363]\nF183_nor.TXT\n2611064\nRichard Carruthers [1591-TEX/#285]\nF129_car.TXT\n2611009\nRichard Jones [0355-SC/#]\nF201_jon.TXT\n2611083\nRichard Jones [Y59]\nF225_jon.TXT\n2611083\nRichard Mack [0378-SC/ #207]\nF170_mac.TXT\n2611050\nRichard Slaughter [0013-VA_/#057]\nf038_sla.txt\n2610916\nRobert Barr [0881-ARK/#071]\nF048_bar.TXT\n2610926\nRobert Falls [NC, TN #145]\nF069_fal.TXT\n2610948\nRobert Falls [Slave, NC, TN #145]\nF065_fal.TXT\n2610948\nRobert Falls [Slave, NC, TN #145] & Allen V.\nF066_miss.TXT\n2610948\nManning [MISS #139]\nRobert Heard [0669-GEO/#229]\nF173_hea.TXT\n2611053\nRobert Shepherd [0737-GEO/#016]\nF009_she.TXT\n2610887\nRosa Green [1643-TEX/#281]\nF127_gre.TXT\n2611007\nSallie Paul [0399-SC /#205]\nF163_pau.TXT\n2611043\nSam Mcallum [Miss #139]\nF115_mca.TXT\n2610995\nSam Mcallum [Slave in MS]\nF095_mca.TXT\n2610995\nSarah Anderson [0862-ARK/#102]\nF132_and.TXT\n2611012\nSarah Harris [0086-NC/#022]\nF014_har.TXT\n2610892\nSarah Louise Augustus [0024-NC/#074]\nF050_aug.TXT\n2610928\nSarah Poindexter [0405-SC/ #275]\nF175_poi.TXT\n2611055\nSilas Jackson [Y54]\nF223_jac.TXT\n2611106\nSimuel Riddick [NC/#]\nF120_rid.TXT\n2611000\nSolbert Butler [0228-SC/ #271]\nF174_but.TXT\n2611054\nSolomon P. Patillo [1311-ARK/#048]\nf031_pat.txt\n2610909\nSusan Snow [MISS #143]\nF096_sno.TXT\n2610975\nTempie Herndon [Y49]\nF221_her.TXT\n2611104\nThomas Cole [1598-TEX/#343]\nF187_col.TXT\n2611068\nTillie [NC/#406]\nF121_til.TXT\n2611001\nTina Johnson [NC/#012]\nF005_joh.txt\n2610883\nTines Kendricks [Slave in GA]\nF076_ken.TXT\n2610956\nTom Mcalpin [556-ALA/#046]\nf029_mca.txt\n2610907\nTom Wilcox [0180-NC/#327]\nF197_wil.TXT\n2611078\nUnknown [GEO #49]\nF100_non.TXT\n2610979\nNARA Reference Copy\nUnknown [TF/#002]\nF205_non.TXT\n2611087\nVirginia Bell [Y7]\nF210_bel.TXT\n2611093\nVirginia Bell\nF209_bel.TXT\n2611093\nWL Bost [Y11]\nF214_bos.TXT\n2611097\nWashington Dozier [Slave in SC#75]\nF056_doz.TXT\n2610934\nWashington Dozier [Slave in SC#75]\nF057_eva.TXT\n2610934\nWashington Dozier [Slave in SC]\nF097_doz.TXT\n2610934\nWilliam Branch [1573-TEX/#030]\nf020_bra.txt\n2610898\nWilliam Green [1644-TEX/#204]\nF138_gre.TXT\n2611018\nWilliam Oliver [0395-SC/#217]\nF172_oli.TXT\n2611052\nWilliam Scott [NC/#]\nF119_sco.TXT\n2610999\nWilliam Ward [0758-GEO/#361]\nF179_war.TXT\n2611060\nWillie McCullough [NC/#]\nF118_mcc.TXT\n2610998\nWillis Winn [Slave in LA]\nF089_win.TXT\n2610969\nNARA Reference Copy\nSorted by File Name\nName and Narrative Identifier (if available)\nFile Name\nNational Archives\nIdentifier\nMuse Minser [1255-ARK/#006]\nf001_min.txt\n2610879\nJoe Barnes [1547-TEX/#007]\nf002_bar.txt\n2610880\nBettie Suber [449-SC/#008]\nf003_sub.txt\n2610881\nBill Crump [0054-NC/#13]\nF004_cru.txt\n2610882\nTina Johnson [NC/#012]\nF005_joh.txt\n2610883\nHenry James Trentham [177-NC/#13]\nF006_tre.txt\n2610884\nEliza Jones [1176-ARK/#014]\nf007_jon.txt\n2610885\nNellie Dunne [998-ARK/#015]\nf008_dun.txt\n2610886\nRobert Shepherd [0737-GEO/#016]\nF009_she.TXT\n2610887\nLizzie Johnson [1162-ARK/#017]\nF010_joh.TXT\n2610888\nHattie Anne Nettles [ALA/#018]\nF011_net.TXT\n2610889\nEmma Jones [545-Ala/#018]\nF012_jon.TXT\n2610890\nEd Barber [202-SC/#21]\nF013_bar.TXT\n2610891\nSarah Harris [0086-NC/#022]\nF014_har.TXT\n2610892\nEaster Norris [366-SC/#24]\nf015_sim.txt\n2610894\nEaster Norris [366-SC/#24]\nF016_nor.TXT\n2610894\nKatherine Eppes [514-ALA/#25]\nf017_epp.txt\n2610895\nHenrietta Evelin Smith [1397-ARK/#026]\nf018_smi.txt\n2610896\nAbram Sells [1773-TEX/#027]\nf019_sel.txt\n2610897\nWilliam Branch [1573-TEX/#030]\nf020_bra.txt\n2610898\nHeyword Ford [516-ALA/#032]\nf021_for.txt\n2610899\nClara Brim [1574-TEX/#033]\nf022_bri.txt\n2610900\nDelia Garlic [519-ALA/#036]\nf023_gar.txt\n2610901\nCynthia Jones [1174-ALA/#37]\nf024_jon.txt\n2610902\nLiza Menton [0715-GEO/#039]\nf025_men.txt\n2610903\nJoe Clinton, Followed by three miscellaneous cards\nf026_cli.txt\n2610904\n[0950-ARK/#040]\nIran Nelson [1286-ARK/#044]\nf027_nel.txt\n2610905\nLizzie Jones [1686-TEX/#045]\nf028_jon.txt\n2610906\nTom Mcalpin [556-ALA/#046]\nf029_mca.txt\n2610907\nJeptha Choice [1595-TEX/#047]\nF030_cho.txt\n2610908\nSolomon P. Patillo [1311-ARK/#048]\nf031_pat.txt\n2610909\nIsom Rogers [1353-ARK/#050]\nF032_rog.txt\n2610910\nJoe Tillman [1440-ARK/#051]\nf033_til.txt\n2610911\nDolly Whiteside [1486-ARK/#052]\nf034_whi.txt\n2610912\nNellie Johnson [OK/#053]\nf035_joh.txt\n2610913\nGeorge McAlilley [376-SC/#055]\nF036_mca.txt\n2610914\nJohn Ellis [1626-TEX/#056]\nf037_ell.txt\n2610915\nNARA Reference Copy\nRichard Slaughter [0013-VA_/#057]\nf038_sla.txt\n2610916\nMama Duck [0786-FLA/#058]\nf039_duc.txt\n2610917\nMartha Allen [0018-NC/#059]\nF040_all.TXT\n2610918\nEverette Ingram [538-ALA/#060]\nF041_ing.TXT\n2610919\nFanny Johnson [1157-ARK/#062]\nF042_joh.TXT\n2610920\nMolly Ammonds [479-ALA/#066]\nF043_amm.TXT\n2610921\nJames Spikes [1403-ARK/#063]\nF044_spi.TXT\n2610922\nJohn Boyd [212-SC/#065]\nF045_boy.TXT\n2610923\nEmma Jeter [344-SC/#068]\nF046_jet.TXT\n2610924\nBob Samuels [1368-ARK/#070]\nF047_sam.TXT\n2610925\nRobert Barr [0881-ARK/#071]\nF048_bar.TXT\n2610926\nHenrietta McCullers [0118-NC/#072]\nf049_mcc.txt\n2610927\nSarah Louise Augustus [0024-NC/#074]\nF050_aug.TXT\n2610928\nGeorge Young [Alabama (repeated 2x)]\nF051_you.TXT\n2610929\nGeorge Taylor [AL. A6 (16)]\nF052_tay.TXT\n2610930\nHenry Bobbitt [NC175/NC151-Set 1]\nF053_nc151.TXT\n2610931\nParker Pool [NC175/NC151-Set 2]\nF054_nc151.TXT\n2610932\nParker Pool [Partial Repeat of NC- 151]\nF055_nc151.TXT\n2611040\nWashington Dozier [Slave in SC#75]\nF056_doz.TXT\n2610934\nWashington Dozier [Slave in SC#75]\nF057_eva.TXT\n2610934\nJake McLeod [SC NE. 107 Age-83]\nF058_mcl.TXT\n2610936\nJake McLeod 2nd part\nF058_mcl2.TXT\n2610936\nBenjamin Russell [Data 1]\nF059_dat1.TXT\n2610966\nBenjamin Russell [SC119]\nF060_dat119.TXT\n2610966\nJasper Battle [GA, #40]\nF061_bat.TXT\n2610940\nBenjamin Johnson [GA, #49]\nF062_joh.TXT\n2610941\nJames Campbell [W.VA #127]\nF063_cam.TXT\n2610942\nFleming Clark [Age 74, OH #128]\nF064_cla.TXT\n2610985\nRobert Falls [Slave, NC, TN #145]\nF065_fal.TXT\n2610948\nAllen V. Manning [MISS #139] & Robert Falls\nF066_miss.TXT\n2610953\n[Slave, NC, TN #145]\nRobert Falls [Slave, NC, TN #145] & Allen V.\nF066_miss.TXT\n2610948\nManning [MISS #139]\nMorris Sheppard [Age 85 OK#34]\nF067_she.TXT\n2610952\nJames Campbell [W.VA Ohio #127]\nF068_cam.TXT\n2610942\nRobert Falls [NC, TN #145]\nF069_fal.TXT\n2610948\nJoseph Leonides [Age 81, TN #148]\nF070_leo.TXT\n2610949\nCharley Williams [Okla #37]\nF071_wil.TXT\n2610986\nCharley Williams [Okla #37]\nF071_wil2.TXT\n2610986\nMorris Shephard [Age 85, OK #34]\nF072_she.TXT\n2610952\nAllen V. Manning [MS, Okla #30]\nF073_man.TXT\n2610953\nLee Guidon [Slave in SC]\nF074_gui.TXT\n2610954\nNARA Reference Copy\nNicey Kenny [Slave in GA]\nF075_kin.TXT\n2610955\nTines Kendricks [Slave in GA]\nF076_ken.TXT\n2610956\nMariah Robinson [Slave in GA and TX]\nF077_rob.TXT\n2610957\nKatie Rowe [Slave in AR]\nF078_row.TXT\n2610958\nCato [Slave in AL]\nF079_cat.TXT\n2610959\nJoanna Draper [Slave in MS]\nF080_dra.TXT\n2610960\nMary Grayson [Indian Terr]\nF081_gra.TXT\n2610961\nBen Simpson [Slave in GA. and TX]\nF082_sim.TXT\n2610962\nMary Reynolds [Slave in LA]\nF083_rey.TXT\n2610963\nEllen Betts [Slave in LA]\nF084_bet.TXT\n2610964\nNed Walker [Sample 1 #SC/122]\nF085_wal.TXT\n2610965\nBenjamin Russell [Data 1, SC 119]\nF086_rus.TXT\n2610966\nGeorge Briggs [Slave in SC #61]\nF087_bri.TXT\n2610967\nAndrew Goodman [Slave in ALA] [Tex #207]\nF088_goo.TXT\n2610968\nWillis Winn [Slave in LA]\nF089_win.TXT\n2610969\nHarry Johnson [Slave in AR & TX]\nF090_joh.TXT\n2610970\nJames Hayes [Slave in TEX]\nF091_hay.TXT\n2610971\nAlbert Hill [GEO]\nF092_hil.TXT\n2610989\nCharley Hurt [TEX #215]\nF093_hur.TXT\n2610973\nSam Mcallum [Slave in MS]\nF095_mca.TXT\n2610995\nSusan Snow [MISS #143]\nF096_sno.TXT\n2610975\nWashington Dozier [Slave in SC]\nF097_doz.TXT\n2610934\nJake Mcleod [SC #107]\nF098_mcl.TXT\n2610936\nArnold Gragston [Slave in KY]\nF099_gra.TXT\n2610978\nUnknown [GEO #49]\nF100_non.TXT\n2610979\nJasper Battle [Slave in GA #40]\nF101_bat.TXT\n2610940\nGeorge Taylor [ALA #16]\nF102_tay.TXT\n2610930\nGeorge Young [ALA #20]\nF103_you.TXT\n2610929\nIsaac Martin [TEX #223]\nF104_mar.TXT\n2610983\nPhillip Evans [SC #82]\nF105_eva.TXT\n2610984\nFleming Clark [Ohio #128]\nF106_cla.TXT\n2610985\nCharley Willams [Okla #37]\nF107_wil.TXT\n2610986\nAndrew Goodman [Tex #207]\nF108_goo.TXT\n2610968\nJames Hayes\nF109_non.TXT\n2610971\nAlbert Hill [TEX #212]\nF110A_hil.TXT\n2610989\nAlbert Hill\nF110B_hil.TXT\n2610989\nIsaac Martin [TEX #223]\nF111_mar.TXT\n2610983\nCharly Hurt [TEX #215]\nF112_hur.TXT\n2610992\nHarry Johnson [TEX #219]\nF113_joh.TXT\n2610970\nHenry Lewis [TEX #222]\nF114_lew.TXT\n2610994\nSam Mcallum [Miss #139]\nF115_mca.TXT\n2610995\nNARA Reference Copy\nBen Johnson [NC/#]\nF116_joh.TXT\n2610996\nRansom Sidney Taylor [NC/#]\nF117_tay.TXT\n2610997\nWillie McCullough [NC/#]\nF118_mcc.TXT\n2610998\nWilliam Scott [NC/#]\nF119_sco.TXT\n2610999\nSimuel Riddick [NC/#]\nF120_rid.TXT\n2611000\nTillie [NC/#406]\nF121_til.TXT\n2611001\nHannah Plummer [NC/#404]\nF122_plu.TXT\n2611002\nAmy Penny [NC/#408]\nF123_pen.TXT\n2611003\nJane Lee [NC/#360]\nF124_lee.TXT\n2611004\nJane Arrington [NC/#344]\nF125_arr.TXT\n2611005\nAddy Gill [78-NC/#434]\nF126_gil.TXT\n2611006\nRosa Green [1643-TEX/#281]\nF127_gre.TXT\n2611007\nElson Lyles [0374-SC/#282]\nF128_lyl.TXT\n2611008\nRichard Carruthers [1591-TEX/#285]\nF129_car.TXT\n2611009\nNina Scott [0436-SC / #291]\nF130_sco.TXT\n2611010\nMandy Leslie [0551-ALA/#290]\nF131_les.TXT\n2611011\nSarah Anderson [0862-ARK/#102]\nF132_and.TXT\n2611012\nLucy Daniels [0247-SC_/#191]\nF133_dan.TXT\n2611013\nAllen Price [1748-TEX/#195]\nF134_pri.TXT\n2611014\nHenry Cheatam #ALA #199 [0498-ALA/#199]\nF135_hen.TXT\n2611016\nHenry Cheatam #ALA #199 [0498-ALA/#199]\nF136_non.TXT\n2611016\nManuel Johnson [0691-GEO/#200]\nF137_joh.TXT\n2611017\nWilliam Green [1644-TEX/#204]\nF138_gre.TXT\n2611018\nCatherine Williams [0181-NC/ #212]\nF139_wil.TXT\n2611019\nMary Raines [0410-SC/#221]\nF140_rai.TXT\n2611020\nHarrison Boyd [1562-TEX/#219]\nF141_boy.TXT\n2611021\nHarre Quarls [1754-TEX/#206]\nF142_qua.TXT\n2611022\nMargaret E. Dickens [0064-NC#210]\nF143_dic.TXT\n2611023\nJohn Coggin [0047_NC/#249]\nF144_cog.TXT\n2611024\nMillie Markham [0124-NC/ #211]\nF145_mar.TXT\n2611025\nMindy Coversion [0048-NC/ #292]\nF146_cov.TXT\n2611026\nMack Taylor [0451-SC/#255]\nF147_tay.TXT\n2611027\nMariah Snyder [1785-TEX/#250]\nF148_sny.TXT\n2611028\nJames Bolton [0017-GEO/ #257]\nF149_bol.TXT\n2611029\nCharlie Hudson [0676-GEO/ #262]\nF150_hud.TXT\n2611030\nEssex Henry [0091-NC/#158 [S2]]\nF151_hen.TXT\n2611031\nLucy Ann Dunn [0068-NC/#533 [S2]]\nF152_dun.TXT\n2611032\nCra M. Flagg [0074-NC/#186 [S2]]\nF153_fla.TXT\n2611033\nMandy Coversion [0048-NC/#292 [S2]]\nF154_cov.TXT\n2611034\nJohn Coggin [0047-NC/#249 [S2]]\nF155_cog.TXT\n2611024\nMillie Marham [0124-NC/#211 [S2]]\nF156_mar.TXT\n2611025\nNARA Reference Copy\nDoc Edwards [0071-NC/#182 [S2]]\nF157_edw.TXT\n2611037\nMargaret Dickens [0064-NC/#210 [S2]]\nF158_dic.TXT\n2611023\nChana Littlejohn [0115-NC/#347 [S2]]\nF159_lit.TXT\n2611039\nParker Pool [Age 91, NC #175]\nF160_poo.TXT\n2611040\nOld Susan Hamlin [0315-SC_/#287]\nF161_ham.TXT\n2611041\nJulia Brown [Y15]\nF162_bro.TXT\n2611042\nSallie Paul [0399-SC /#205]\nF163_pau.TXT\n2611043\nHenry Ryan\nF164_rya.TXT\n2611044\nJacob Branch [1572-TEX/#216]\nF165_bra.TXT\n2611045\nJoe Rutherford [0428-SC/ #240]\nF166_rut.TXT\n2611046\nLouisa Davis [0256-SC/#222]\nF167_dav.TXT\n2611047\nJim Gillard [0524-ALA/ #232]\nF168_gil.TXT\n2611048\nJosh Hart [0536-ALA/#223]\nF169_har.TXT\n2611049\nRichard Mack [0378-SC/ #207]\nF170_mac.TXT\n2611050\nAM Moore [1724-TEX/#242]\nF171_moo.TXT\n2611051\nWilliam Oliver [0395-SC/#217]\nF172_oli.TXT\n2611052\nRobert Heard [0669-GEO/#229]\nF173_hea.TXT\n2611053\nSolbert Butler [0228-SC/ #271]\nF174_but.TXT\n2611054\nSarah Poindexter [0405-SC/ #275]\nF175_poi.TXT\n2611055\nHannah Jones [0546-ALA/#277]\nF176_jon.TXT\n2611057\nNeal Upson [0753-GEO/#233]\nF177_ups.TXT\n2611058\nFannie Moore [0129-NC/#349]\nF178_moo.TXT\n2611059\nWilliam Ward [0758-GEO/#361]\nF179_war.TXT\n2611060\nBob Mobley [0728-GEO/#362]\nF180_mob.TXT\n2611061\nJames West [1816-TEX/#365]\nF181_wes.TXT\n2611062\nMandy [0558-ALA/#433]\nF182_man.TXT\n2611063\nReverend W.E. Northcross [0505-ALA/#363]\nF183_nor.TXT\n2611064\nMary Overton [1737-TEX/#355]\nF184_ove.TXT\n2611065\nJohn Moody [1704-TEX/#370]\nF185_moo.TXT\n2611066\nNancy King [1692-TEX/#309]\nF186_kin.TXT\n2611067\nThomas Cole [1598-TEX/#343]\nF187_col.TXT\n2611068\nPauline Worth [0473-SC/#318]\nF188_wor.TXT\n2611069\nNannie Bradfield [0490-ALA/#308]\nF189_bra.TXT\n2611070\nMartha Spence Bunton [1583-TEX/#334]\nF190_bun.TXT\n2611071\nCharlotte Beverly [1559-TEX/#325]\nF191_bev.TXT\n2611072\nHarriet Barret [1549-TEX/#368]\nF192_bar.TXT\n2611073\nCalli Alder [0643-GEO/#353]\nF193_ald.TXT\n2611074\nAngie Garrett [0519-ALA/#335]\nF194_gar.TXT\n2611075\nFrank Gill [0523-ALA/#319]\nF195_gil.TXT\n2611076\nAdeline Hodges [0522-ALA/#316]\nF196_hod.TXT\n2611077\nTom Wilcox [0180-NC/#327]\nF197_wil.TXT\n2611078\nNARA Reference Copy\nMillie Bates [205-SC/#333]\nF198_bat.TXT\n2611079\nAaron Ford [0278-SC/#]\nF199_for.TXT\n2611080\nHenry Coleman [0240-SC/#333]\nF199B_col.TXT\n2611081\nMary Johnson [0352-SC/#]\nF200_joh.TXT\n2611082\nRichard Jones [0355-SC/#]\nF201_jon.TXT\n2611083\nCharlie Robinson [0422-SC/#]\nF202_rob.TXT\n2611084\nMom Jessie Sparrow [0466-SC/#]\nF203_spa.TXT\n2611085\nDavid Lee [TF/#001]\nF204_lee.TXT\n2611086\nUnknown [TF/#002]\nF205_non.TXT\n2611087\nIsaac Adams [Y1]\nF206_ada.TXT\n2611088\nLucretia Alexander [Y2]\nF207_ale.TXT\n2611089\nFrank Bell [Y5]\nF207_bel.TXT\n2611090\nVirginia Bell\nF209_bel.TXT\n2611093\nMary A. Bell [Y6]\nF209bel.TXT\n2611091\nVirginia Bell [Y7]\nF210_bel.TXT\n2611093\nBoston Blackwell [Y8]\nF211_bla.TXT\n2611094\nDavid Blont [Y9]\nF212_blo.TXT\n2611095\nAndrew Boone [Y10]\nF213_boo.TXT\n2611096\nWL Bost [Y11]\nF214_bos.TXT\n2611097\nJames Cape [Y16]\nF215_cap.TXT\n2611098\nHenry Cheatam [Y18]\nF216_che.TXT\n2611016\nPeter Clifton [Y19]\nF217_cli.TXT\n2611100\nMartha Colquitt [Y20]\nF218_col.TXT\n2611101\nCheney Cross [Y21]\nF219_cro.TXT\n2611102\nKatie Darling [Y22]\nF220_dar.TXT\n2611103\nTempie Herndon [Y49]\nF221_her.TXT\n2611104\nMartin Jackson [Y53]\nF222_jac.TXT\n2611105\nSilas Jackson [Y54]\nF223_jac.TXT\n2611106\nPrince Johnson [Y58]\nF224_joh.TXT\n2611107\nRichard Jones [Y59]\nF225_jon.TXT\n2611083\nNine Miscellaneous Cards\nF226_misc..TXT\n2611109\nJohn Brown [Y14]\nF227_bro.TXT\n2611110\nGus Feaster [SC, #83]\nF228_fea.TXT\n2611111\nDictionary file part 1\nF229_dicfile.1.TXT\n2611112\nDictionary file part 2\nF230_dicfile.2.TXT\n2611112\nLynn Goodsell, Reference Branch Chief\nElectronic Records Division (RDE)\nDecember 29, 2020\nNARA Reference Copy\nRECORDS AND ARRCHIVES ADMINISTRATION TYNOLLYN\nNational Archives and Records Administration\n8601 Adelphi Road\n1985\nCollege Park, Maryland 20740-6001\nList of Documentation for the\nThe Slave Narrative Collection, Random Sample of Interviews\nConducted by the Work Projects Administration, 1936-38\nCenter for Urban Ethnology, University of Pennsylvania\nDonated Materials Group CUE\nNARA Prepared Documentation:\n# Pages\nUser Note describing technical characteristics of the file\n2\nDescription of technical processing of materials\n2\nFinding Aid for available narratives\n8\nDescription of Slave Narrative Collection on Ancestry.com\n2\nDonor Documentation Contents:\nDescription of narratives and select pages from published narratives\n5\nNARA Processing Materials:\nSample Printout of the TAR file\n2\nNN3-CUE-00-001 (NWME)\nTheodore J. Hull\nFebruary 28, 2003\nNARA's web site is http://www.nara.gov\nNARA Reference Copy\nMAR 31 2000\nNational\nAND\nRECORDS\nArchives at College Park\nARCHIVES\n8601 Adelphi Road College Park, Maryland 20740-6001\nNATIONAL\n1985\nWPA SLAVE NARRATIVE PUNCHCARDS\nDonated by Dr. Jim Cahalan\nFormerly of the Center for Urban Ethnology\nUniversity of Pennsylvania\nNARA Donated Historical Materials Group CUE\nThis collection consists of 232 textual electronic records files\nof WPA Slave Narratives converted from punchcard to electronic\nformat by the Center for Electronic Records, National Archives\nand Records Administration (NARA) Also included in this\ncollection are two donor created \"dictionary\" files. Please see\nthe description of the conversion project (\"What's Old is New\nAgain\" ) for background on the creation and conversion of these\nmaterials. A finding aid to the punchcards and the electronic\nfiles is included in this documentation. A donor supplied\ndescription is also included.\nNARA chose to accept this donation because the donor suggested\nthis was the only extant electronic version of these narratives.\nThe collection has a clear relationship to a federal program and\nwas thought to be a unique compilation of such materials.\nDuring early FY2000, NARA also used this donation as a test of\nits ability to convert and accession a set of unstructured\ntextual materials. Only later (March 2000) did the staff of the\nCenter for Electronic Records become aware of the work of George\nRawick and the commercial vendor ANCESTRY. COM to make these\nnarratives available electronically. A description of the\nANCESTRY.C Slave Narrative collection is included in this\ndocumentation package. Given the easy accessibility of the\nANCESTRY.C materials, NARA then decided to preserve the 234\nfiles related to the Cahalan donation in TAR format anticipating\nlittle reference on the Cahalan materials.\nThe source materials for these files are 80-column IBM\npunchcards. During the course of the conversion, NARA staff\nnoticed that a number of characters appeared to be mis-punched,\nresulting in \"dirty\" electronic files. NARA \"verified\" these\nNational Archives and Records Administration\nNARA Reference Copy\nfiles by reading each file as it was converted to see that each\nline of text logically followed one another. The cards did not\ncontain any sort field or citation to the original source\nmaterials. The first card in each logical set (i.e. narrative)\nincludes the name of the interviewee and a code indicating state\nand, we presume, a unique WPA interview number.\nThe cards were converted sequentially as stored and transferred\nby Dr. Cahalan. NARA did not attempt to sort the cards, but in\na few cases did move some cards to correct obvious mis-sorting\nof text or identification cards. NARA did not attempt to\ncorrect text characters that were obviously in error. On\noccasions where numerous text errors were noted, NARA re-read\nthe punchcard decks to see whether the punchcard reader was at\nfault. NARA discovered that original mis-punching of the cards\ncaused most errors. Users should be aware that these errors\npotentially exist. In addition, in the conversion process files\nwere captured electronically by highlighting the text on the\nscreen and saving the text into an electronic ASCII file.\nBecause of this process sometimes the last record of the file\nmay not have been fully \"captured,\" resulting in a final record\nof something less than 80-characters. NARA decided to retain\nthe original punchcards for users to compare the original to the\nconverted cards.\nFinally, users should reference the published Slave Narratives\nto determine the correct characters in the electronic files.\nThe citation is the Works Progress Administration. Federal\nWriters Project. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in\nthe United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.\nWashington, D.C.: n.p.\nTHEODORE J. HULL\nArchivist\nCenter for Electronic Records\nNARA Reference Copy\nWhat's Old is New Again! (article published in National Archives\nAssembly newsletter, January 2000)\nAre you aware of computer punchcards among NARA's textual\nrecords holdings?\nDid you run across some permanent punchcards during the WNRC\ncleanout?\nPeripheral Dynamics Inc. recently went into its antique parts\nbin and manufactured a new, 1984 vintage punchcard\nreader/converter for the Electronic and Special Media Records\nServices Division (NWME) SO it could preserve such records. The\nreader processes punchcards into a contemporary computer format\nby passing light through the punchs and converting the\nconfiguration into the appropriate character. This will allow\nNARA to preserve and provide access to the records\nelectronically.\nThe first big test of the punchcard reader was to convert a set\nof donated historical materials from Dr. Jim Cahalan, formerly\nof the Center for Urban Ethnology, University of Pennsylvania.\nThe conversion of the records is complete and NWME is now\npreserving the files electronically. Ted Hull of NWME is\nprocessing this collection and Ijeoma Enendu, a new member of\nthe NWME staff, completed the conversion.\nIn the early-1970's, Dr. Cahalan created punchcards containing\nthe text of over 200 \"slave narratives\" - transcripts of the\nFederal Writers Project, Works Projects Administration,\ninterviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930's. One of\nthe products of his research, and the reason for converting them\nto punchcards, was to analyze the dialect and speech patterns of\nformer slaves. After leaving the University, Dr. Cahalan stored\nthe punchcard decks in the basement of his home in Pennsylvania.\nIn 1998, he contacted NWME about the possibility of donating the\ncards to NARA and having them converted to an electronic format\nfor further processing and analysis. NWME initially sent the\ncards to the former NARA computer center in St. Louis (NHTOS),\nbut they could not process the cards. The NARA computer center\nshutdown their punchcard processing operations (the IBM 2540) in\nthe summer of 1998. NWME decided to pursue obtaining a\npunchcard reader, not only to process the slave narratives, but\nto provide NARA with the capability of converting punchcard\nrecords found among NARA's textual records holdings. The first\ntest of this new capability has been extremely successful!\nNARA Reference Copy\nIf you happen to run across a collection of punchcards that you\nthink should be converted to a contemporary electronic format,\nplease contact Tom Brown, NWME, by e-mail or at 301-713-6630,\next. 232.\nNARA Reference Copy\nSlave Narrative Finding Aid\nBox 1\n(Files F001_min (Muse Minser) through F019_sel (Abram Sells) )\n1.\nMuse Minser\n1255-ARK/#006\nF001_min\n2.\nJoe Barnes\n1547PTEX/#007\nF002_bar\n3.\nBettie Suber\n449-SC/#008\nF003_sub\n4.\nBill Crump\n0054-NC/#13\nF004_cru\n5.\nTina Johnson\n-NC/#012\nF005_joh\n6.\nHenry James Trentham\n177-NC/#13\nF006_tre\n7.\nEliza Jones\n1176-ARK/#014\nF007_jon\n8.\nNellie Dunne\n998-ARK/#015\nF008_dun\n9.\nRobert Shepherd\n0737-GEO/#016\nF009 she\n10.\nLizzie Johnson\n1162-ARK/#017\nF010_joh\n11.\nHattie Anne Nettles\nALA/#018\nF011_net\n12.\nEmma Jones\n545-Ala/#018\nF012_jon\n13.\nEd Barber\n202-SC/#21\nF013_bar\n14.\nSarah Harris\n0086-NC/#022\nF014 har\n15.\nGeorge Simmons\n1777-Tex/#023\nF015_sim\n16.\nEaster Norris\n366-SC/#24\nF016_nor\n17.\nKatherine Eppes\n514-ALA/#25\nF017_epp\n18.\nHenrietta Evelin Smith\n1397-ARK/#026\nF018_smi\n19.\nAbram Sells\n1773-TEX/#027\nF019_sel\nBox 2\n(Files F020_bra (William Branch) through F038_sla (Richard Slaughter) )\n20.\nWilli M Branch\n1573-TEX/#030\nF020_bra\n21.\nHeyword Ford\n516-ALA/#032\nF021_for\n22.\nClara Brim\n1574-TEX/#033\nF022_bri\n23.\nDelia Garlic\n519-ALA/#036\nF023_gar\n24.\nCynthia Jones\n1174-ALA/#37\nF024_jon\n25.\nLiza Menton\n0715-GEO/#039\nF025_men\n26.\nJoe Clinton\n0950-ARK/#040\nF026_cli\n(followed by 3 misc. cards)\n27.\nIran Nelson\n1286-ARK/#044\nF027 nel\n28.\nLizzie Jones\n1686-TEX/#045\nF028_jon\n29.\nTom Mcalpin\n556-ALA/#046\nF029_mca\n30.\nJeptha Choice\n1595-TEX/#047\nF030_cho\n31.\nSolomon P. Patillo\n1311-ARK/#048\nF031_pat\n32.\nIsom Rogers\n1353-ARK/#050\nF032_rog\n33.\nJoe Tillman\n1440-ARK/#051\nF033_til\n34.\nDolly Whiteside\n1486-ARK/#052\nF034_whi\nNARA Reference Copy\n35.\nNellie Johnson\nOK/#053\nF035_joh\n36.\nGeorge McAlilley\n376-SC/#055\nF036_mca\n37.\nJohn Ellis\n1626-TEX/#056\nF037_ell\n38.\nRichard Slaughter\n0013-VA_/#057\nF038_sla\nBox 3\n(Files F039_duc (Mama Duck) to F058_mcl (Jake Mcleod) )\n39.\nMama Duck\n0786-FLA/#058\nF039_duc\n40.\nMartha Allen\n0018-NC/#059\nF040_all\n41.\nEverette Ingram\n538-ALA/#060\nF041_ing\n42.\nFanny Johnson\n1157-ARK/#062\nF042_joh\n43.\nMolly Ammonds\n479-ALA/#066\nF043 amm\n44.\nJames Spikes\n1403-ARK/#063\nF044_spi\n45. John Boyd\n212-SC/#065\nF045_boy\n46.\nEmma Jeter\n344-SC/#068\nF046_jet\n47.\nBob Samuels\n1368-ARK/#070\nF047_sam\n48.\nJake McLeod\nSC NE. 107 Age-83\nF058_mcl\n(Repeated 2x; split between box 3&4)\n49.\nPhilip Evans\nSlave in SC#82\nF057_eva\n50.\nWashington Dozier\nSlave in SC#75\nF056_doz\n51.\nNC175/NC151-2 Sets\nsame interview\nF055_NC151\nBox 4.\n(Files F051_you (George Young) to F055_NC151) )\n52.\nGeorge Young\nAlabama (repeated 2x)\nF051_you\n53.\nGeorge Taylor\nAL. A6 (16)\nF052_tay\n54.\nHenrietta McCullers\n0118-NC/#072\nF049_mcc\n55.\nSarah Louise Augustus\n0024-NC/#074\nF050_aug\n56.\nRobert Barr\n0881-ARK/#071\nF048_bar\n57.\n2nd part of McLeod\n(data 1)\nF059_dat\n58. Data 1\nF059_dat\n59. SC119\nF060_dat119\n60.\nJasper Battle\nGA, #40\nF061_bat\n61.\nPartial Repeat of NC- 151\nNARA Reference Copy\nBox 5\n(Files F062_joh (Benjamin Johnson) to F074_gui (Lee Guidon) )\n62.\nBenjamin Johnson\nGA, #49\nF062_joh\n63.\nJames Campbell\nW.VA #127\nF063_cam\n64.\nFleming Clark\nAge 74, OH #128\nF064_cla\n65.\nRobert Falls\nSlave, NC, TN #145\nF065_fal\n66.\n[MISS #139]\nF066_miss\n67.\nMorris Sheppard\nAge 85 OK#34\nF067_she\n68.\nJames Campbell\nW.VA Ohio #127\nF068_cam\n69. Robert Falls\nNC, TN #145\nF069_fal\nBox 6\n(Files F070_leo (Joseph Leonides) to F080_dra (Joanna Draper) )\n70.\nJoseph Leonides\nAge 81, TN #148\nF070_leo\n(name card moved to front of set)\n71.\nCharley Williams\nOkla #37\nF071_wil\n72.\nMorris Shephard\nAge 85, OK #34\nF072_she\n73.\nAllen V. Manning\nMS, Okla #30\nF073_man\n74.\nJoanna Draper\nSlave in MS\nF080_dra\n75.\nMary Grayson\nIndian Terr\nF081_gra\n76.\nBen Simpson\nSlave in GA. and TX\nF082_sim\n77.\nLee Guidon\nSlave in SC\nF074_gui\nBox 7\n(Files F075_kin (Nicey Kinney) to F084_bet (Ellen Betts) )\n75.\nNicey Kenny\nSlave in GA\nF075_kin\n76.\nTines Kendricks\nSlave in GA\nF076 ken\n77.\nMariah Robinson\nSlave in GA and TX\nF077_rob\n78.\nKatie Rowe\nSlave in AR\nF078_row\n79.\nCato\nSlave in AL\nF079_cat\n83.\nMary Reynolds\nSlave in LA\nF083_rey\n84.\nEllen Betts\nSlave in LA\nF084_bet\nBox 8\n(Files F085_wal (Ned Walker) to F100_non (No Name) )\n85.\nNed walker\nSample 1 #SC/122\nF085_wal\n86.\nBenjamin Russell\n[Data 1, SC 119]\nF086_rus\n87.\nGeorge Briggs\nSlave in SC #61\nF087_bri\nNARA Reference Copy\n88. Andrew Goodman\nSlave in ALA,\nF088_goo\n89. Willis Winn\nSlave in LA,\nF089_win\n90.\nHarry Johnson\nSlave in AR & TX\nF090_joh\n91.\nJames Hayes\nSlave in TEX,\nF091_hay\n92.\nJasper Battle\nSlave, GEO #40\nF101_bat\n93.\nNo Name\nGEO #49 [Data #3]\nF100_non\nBox 9\n(F099_gra (Arnold Gragston) to F103_you ( George Young) )\n94.\nArnold Gragston\nSlave in GA\nF099_gra\n95.\nJake Mcleod\n[SC #107]\nF098_mcl\n96.\nWashington Dozier\nSlave in SC,\nF097_doz\n97. Susan Snow\nSlave in MS,\nF096_sno\n98. Henry Lewis\nSlave in TEX,\nF094_lew\n99.\nCharley Hurt\nSlave in GA,\nF093_hur\n100. Albert Hill\nSlave in GA,\nF092_hil\n101.\nGeorge Taylor\nALA #16\nF102_tay\n102.\nGeorge Young\nALA #20\nF103_you\nBox 10\n(Files F104_mar (Isaac Martin) to F118_mcc (Willie McCullough) )\n103.\nIsaac Martin\nTEX #223\nF104_mar\n104.\nPhillip Evans\nSC #82\nF105_eva\n105.\nFleming Clark\nOhio #128\nF106_cla\n106.\nCharley Willams\nOkla [okla37]\nF107_wil\n107.\nAndrew Goodman\nTex #207\nF108_goo\n108.\nAlbert Hill\nTEX #212\nF110A_hil\n109. Willie McCullough\n-NC/#\nF118_mcc\nBox 11\n(Files F110A_hil (Albert Hill) to F111_mar))\n110A. Albert Hill\n110.\nRansom Sidney\n-NC/#\nF117_tay\n111.\nBen Johnson\n-NC/#\nF116_joh\n112.\nSam Mcallum\nMiss #139\nF115_mca\n113.\nHenry Lewis\nTEX #222\nF114_lew\n114. Harry Johnson\nTEX #219\nF113_joh\nNARA Reference Copy\n115. Charly Hurt\nTEX #215\nF112_hur\n116. Isaac Martin\nTEX #223\nF111_mar\nBox 12\n(Files F119_sco (William Scott) to F137_joh (Manuel Johnson) )\n117. William Scott\n-NC/#\nF119_sco\n118.\nSimuel Riddick\n-NC/#\nF120_rid\n119. Tillie\n-NC/#406\nF121_til\n120.\nHannah Plummer\n-NC/#404\nF122_plu\n121.\nAmy Penny\n-NC/#408\nF123_pen\n122.\nJane Lee\n-NC/#360\nF124_lee\n123.\nJane Arrington\n-NC/#344\nF125_arr\n124.\nAddy Gill\n78-NC/#434\nF126_gil\n125.\nRosa Green\n1643-TEX/ #281\nF127_gre\n126.\nElson Lyles\n0374-SC/#282\nF128_lyl\n127.\nRichard Carruthers\n1591-TEX/#285\nF129_car\n128.\nNina Scott\n0436-SC / #291\nF130_sco\n129.\nMandy Leslie\n0551-ALA/#290\nF131_les\n130.\nSarah Anderson\n0862-ARK/#102\nF132_and\n131.\nLucy Daniels\n0247-SC_/#191\nF133_dan\n132.\nAllen Price\n1748-TEX/#195\nF134_pri\n133.\nJim Henry\n0324-SC_/#196\nF135_hen\n134.\nNo Name #ALA #199\n0498-ALA/#199\nF136_non\n135.\nManuel Johnson\n0691-GEO/#200\nF137_joh\nBox 13\n(Files F138_gre (William Green) to F154_cov (Mandy Coversion)\n136.\nWilliam Green\n1644-TEX/#204\nF138_gre\n137.\nCatherine Williams\n0181-NC/ #212\nF139_wil\n138.\nMary Raines\n0410-SC/#221\nF140_rai\n139.\nHarrison Boyd\n1562-TEX/#219\nF141_boy\n140.\nHarre Quarls\n1754-TEX/#206\nF142_qua\n141.\nMargaret E. Dickens\n0064-NC#210\nF143_dic\n142.\nJohn Coggin\n0047_NC/#249\nF144_cog\n143.\nMillie Markham\n0124-NC/ #211\nF145_mar\n144.\nMindy Coversion\n0048-NC/ #292\nF146_cov\n145.\nMack Taylor\n0451-SC/#255\nF147_tay\n146. Mariah Snyder\n1785-TEX/#250\nF148_sny\nNARA Reference Copy\n147.\nJames Bolton\n0017-GEO/#257\nF149_bol\n148.\nCharlie Hudson\n0676-GEO/ #262\nF150_hud\n149.\nEssex Henry\n0091-NC/#158 [S2]\nF151_hen\n150.\nLucy Ann Dunn\n0068-NC/#533 [S2]\nF152_dun\n151.\nCra M. Flagg\n0074-NC/#186 [S2]\nF153_fla\n152.\nMandy Coversion\n0048-NC/#292 [S2]\nF154_cov\nBox 14\n(Files F155_cog (John Coggin) to F170_mac (Richard Mack)\n153. John Coggin\n0047-NC/#249 [S2]\nF155_cog\n154. Millie Marham\n0124-NC/#211 [S2]\nF156_mar\n155. Doc Edwards\n0071-NC/#182 [S2]\nF157_edw\n156.\nMargaret Dickens\n0064-NC/#210 [S2]\nF158_dic\n157.\nChana Littlejohn\n0115-NC/#347 [S2]\nF159_lit\n158. Parker Pool\nAge 91, NC #175\nF160_poo\n159.\nOld Susan Hamlin\n0315-SC_/#287\nF161_ham\n160.\nJulia Brown\n[Y15]\nF162_bro\n161.\nSallie Paul\n0399-SC /#205\nF163_pau\n162.\nJosh Hart\n0536-ALA/#223\nF169_har\n163. Richard Mack\n0378-SC/ #207\nF170_mac\nBox 15\n(Files F164_ray (Henry Ryan) to F178_Moo (Annie Moore)\n164.\nHenry Ryan\nF164-rya\n165.\nJacob Branch\n1572-TEX/ #216\nF165_bra\n166.\nJoe Rutherford\n0428-SC/ #240\nF166_rut\n167.\nLouisa Davis\n0256-SC/#222\nF167_dav\n168. Jim Gillard\n0524-ALA/ #232\nF168_gil\n169.\nA M Moore\n1724-TEX/#242\nF171_moo\n170.\nWilliam Oliver\n0395-SC/#217\nF172_oli\n171.\nRobert Heard\n0669-GEO/#229\nF173_hea\n172.\nSolbert Butler\n0228-SC/ #271\nF174_but\n173.\nSarah Poindexter\n0405-SC/ #275\nF175_poi\n174.\nHannah Jones\n0546-ALA/#277\nF176_jon\n175.\nNeal Upson\n0753-GEO/#233\nF177_ups\n176.\nAnnie Moore\n0129-NC/#349\nF1.78_moo\nNARA Reference Copy\nBox 16\n(Files F179_war (William Ward) to F193_ald (Callie Alder) )\n177.\nWilliam Ward\n0758-GEO/#361\nF179_war\n178. Bob Mobley\n0728-GEO/#362\nF180_mob\n179.\nJames West\n1816-TEX/#365\nF181_wes\n180. Mandy\n0558-ALA/#433\nF182_man\n181.\nReverend W E Northcross\n0505-ALA/#363\nF183_nor\n182.\nMary Overton\n1737-TEX/#355\nF184_ove\n183.\nJohn Moody\n1704-TEX/#370\nF185_moo\n184.\nNancy King\n1692-TEX/#309\nF186_kin\n185.\nThomas Cole\n1598-TEX/#343\nF187_col\n186. Pauline Worth\n0473-SC/#318\nF188_wor\n187.\nNannie Bradfield\n0490-ALA/#308\nF189_bra\n188.\nMartha Spence Bunton\n1583-TEX/#334\nF190_bun\n189.\nCharlotte Beverly\n1559-TEX/#325\nF191_bev\n190.\nHarriet Barret\n1549-TEX/#368\nF192_bar\n191. Calli Alder\n0643-GEO/#353\nF193_ald\nBox 17\n(Files F194_gar (Angie Garrett) to F203_spa (Mom Jessie Sparrow)\n192.\nAngie Garrett\n0519-ALA/#335\nF194_gar\n193. Frank Gill\n0523-ALA/#319\nF195_gil\n194.\nAdeline Hodges\n0522-ALA/#316\nF196_hod\n195.\nTom Wilcox\n0180-NC/#327\nF197_wil\n196.\nMillie Bates\n205-SC/#333\nF198_bat\n197. Aaron Ford\n0278-SC/#\nF199_for\n198.\nHenry Coleman\n0240-SC/#\nF200_col\n199.\nMary Johnson\n0352-SC/#\nF201_joh\n200.\nRichard Jones\n0355-SC/#\nF202_jon\n201.\nCharlie Robinson\n0422-SC/#\nF203_rob\n202.\nMom Jessie Sparrow\n0466-SC/#\nF204_spa\nBox 18\n(Files F204_lee (David Lee) to F212_blo (David Blont)\n203. David Lee\nTF/#001\nF204_lee\n204. Unknown\nTF/#003\nF205_non\n205.\nIsaac Adams\n[Y1]\nF206_ada\n206.\nLucretia Alexander\n[Y2]\nF207_ale\nNARA Reference Copy\n207. Frank Bell\n[Y5]\nF208_bel\n208. Mary A. Bell\n[Y6]\nF209_bel\n209. Virginia Bell\n[Y7]\nF210_bel\n210. Boston Blackwell\n[Y8]\nF211_bla\n211.\nDavid Blont\n[Y9]\nF212_blo\nBox 19\n(Files F213_boo (Andrew Boone) to F224_joh (Prince Johnson) )\n212.\nAndrew Boone\n[Y10]\nF213_boo\n213.\nW L Bost\n[Y11]\nF214_bos\n214.\nJames Cape\n[Y16]\nF215_cap\n215. Henry Cheatam\n[Y18]\nF216_che\n216.\nPeter Clifton\n[Y19]\nF217_cli\n217.\nMartha Colquitt\n[Y20]\nF218_col\n218. Cheney Cross\n[Y21]\nF219_cro\n219. Katie Darling\n[Y22]\nF220_dar\n220.\nTempie Herndon\n[Y49]\nF221 her\n221. Martin Jackson\n[Y53]\nF222_jac\n222. Silas Jackson\n[Y54]\nF223_jac\n223. Prince Johnson\n[Y58]\nF224_joh\nBox 20\n(Files F225_jon (Richard Jones) to F229_dicfile.1 (dictionary file pt. 1)\n224.\nRichard Jones\n[Y59]\nF225_jon\n225. 9 misc. cards\nF226_car\n226. John Brown\n[Y14]\nF227_bro\n227.\nGus Feaster\nSC, #83\nF228_fea\n228.\nDictionary file pt. 1\nF229_dicfile.1\nBox 21\n(Dictionary File pt. 2)\n229. Dictionary File- part 2\nF230_dicfile.2\nNARA Reference Copy\nAncestry.com - Slave Narratives\nwysiwyg://4/http://ancestry.com/se..rectype/biohist/slavnar/promo.hm\nAncestry.com\nMember Login My Account Guest Registry\nThe No. 1 Source for Family History Online\nSearch\nAdvanced Search\nSearch by Locality\nSearch by Record Type\nSearch Help\nDiscover\nAncestry.com\nClick Here\nSearch > Record Type > Biography & History Records > Slave\nNarratives\nMarch 21, 2000\nCensus Records\nSlave Narratives\nVital & Church\nRecords\nMilitary Records\nPerhaps no other resource approaches the range of human experience found\nBiography &\nin Ancestry com's Slave Narratives. 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[database online] Orem, UT: Ancestry,\nInc., 2000. Original source: Works Project Administration. Federal Writers\nProject. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States\nfrom Interviews with Former Slaves. Washington, D.C.: n.p.\nAbout Us I Contact Us I Partner with Us I Terms & Conditions I Privacy Statement\nCopyright © 1998-2000, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries.\n1 of 1\n03/21/2000 8:01 AM\nNARA Reference Copy\nMAR-11-98 WED 05:15 AM MANSFIELD PLANTATION INC 717 426 2372\nP.01\nMANSFIELD PLANTATION INC.\n1776 MANSFIELD ROAD\nGEORGETOWN, SC 29440\n803-546-6961\nTO: Ted Hall, Center for Electronic Media (301-713-6911 fax)\nFROM: Jim Cahalan (803-546-5235 fax)\nThank you for taking time to help me with my data conversion\nproblem.\nThe material I have on hollerith cards are interviews with ex-slaves\ntaken during the 1930s under the auspices of the WPA; 2,200\ninterviews with ex-slaves were taken in southern states by the WPA.\nAdditional interviews were collected by separate state projects.\nThese interviews have been used extensively by scholars of slavery\nin the United Stated (for instance, Eugene Genovese's ROLL, JORDAN,\nROLL (New York, 1974)).\nTypescripts of the interviews were deposited in the Library of\nCongress, and in the individual state archives. The Library of\nCongress made the collection available on microfilm. In 1972\nGreenwood Press published the collection in nineteen volumes titled\nTHE AMERICAN SLAVE: A COMPOSITE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. I am sending herewith\na copy of the title page of this publication, and a brief\nintroduction to the project by Benjamin Btnik, the WPA project\ndirector.\nThe material I have is a random sample of 500 of the WPA'a 2200\ninterviews. So far as I know it is the only machine readable version\nof this material.\nAs we discussed, I would be willing to donate this material to\npreserve it, and to have it converted to standard magnetic media. I\nunderstand that the National Archives can do the conversion, and\nthat a copy of the material would be provided to me on diskette.\nNARA Reference Copy\nP.02\nTHE AMERICAN SLAVE:\nA COMPOSITE\nTHE AMERICAN SLAVE:\nA COMPOSITE AUTOBIOGRAPHY\nAUTOBIOGRAPHY\nSeries One\nValume :: From Sundown to Sunup: The Making of\n1\nthe Black Community\n2: South Carolina Narratives, Parts 1 and I\nMAR-11-98 WED 05:16 AM MANSFIELD PLANTATION INC 717 426 2372\nVolume Volume 3: South Carolina Narratives, Parts 3 and 4\nVolume Volume 5: Texas Narratives, Parts 3 and 4\n4: Texas Narratives, Part , and 2\nFROM SUNDOWN TO SUNUP\nVolume 6: Alabama and Indiana Narratives\nThe Making of\nVolume\n7: Oklahoma and Mississippi Narratives\nthe Black Community\nSeries Two\nVolume 8: Arkansas Narratives, Parts I and 2\nVolume 9: Arkansas Narratives, Parts 3 and 4\nVolume 10: Arkansas Narratives, Parts s and 6\nVolome\n: Arkansas Narratives, Part 7. and\nGEORGE P. RAWICK\nMissouri Narratives\nVolume 12:\nGeorgia Narratives, Parts ' and 2\nVolume 13:\nGeorgia Narratives, Parts 3 and 4\nVolume 14:\nNorth Carolina Narratives, Parts I and 2\nContribucions in Afro-American and\nVolume 15:\nNorth Carolina Narratives, Parts 3 and 4\nAfrican Studies\nVolume 16:\nKansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio,\nNumber 11\nVirginia, and Tennessee Narratives\nVolume\nVolume 18:\n17: Unwritten History of Slavery (Fisk University)\nFlorida Narratives\nGod Struck Me Dead (Fisk University)\nVolume 19:\nP\nGREENWOOD PUBLISHING COMPANY\nWESTPORT, CONNECTICUT\n1972\n166 / APPENDIXES\nNot only has this work slighted the historical development of\nthe black community, it has not emphasized the regional differences\nin American slavery. That has been done in order to establish certain\noverall realities: there was a black community under slavery, there\nSLAVE NARRATIVES*\nwas the development of distinct Afro-American behavior patterns\n(for example, black religion), slaves were treated harshly but the\nA Folk History of Slavery in the United States\nwere able to resist in specific ways, and so forth. But the slave narra\nFrom Interviews with Former Slaves\ntives offer wonderfully clear material on regional differences. For ex\nample, the Texas narratives are filled with accounts of black COW\nboys and black slave cowboys. It is clear that the slave cowbo\nhad much more individual autonomy than did slave field hand\non cotton plantations. It is hoped that these narratives will be utilize\nTYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY\nMAR-11-98 WED 05:17 AM MANSFIELD PLANTATION INC 426 2372\nto probe such differences, and their relationships to regional diffe\nences, as we!! as to develop 2 comprehensive picture of the change\nTHE FEDERAL WRITERS PROJECT\n1936-1938\nin slave life.\nASSEMBLED BY\nThis volume is an introduction to a body of material in while\nTHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT\nthe slaves speak for themselves. If the volume is to have any. me\nWORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION\nbeyond the presentation of the views of the author on certain TH\nFOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA\nters concerning American slavery and racism, it will come\nSPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\nits linkage with the slave narratives-a body of material intrinsic\nof greater significance because it presents the reflections upon't\nexperiences of those who were there, who suffered, and wholl\nfor themselves and those who were to come after them a way\nlife upon which people stand and challenge modern Amer\nIllustrated with Photographs\nsociety.\nNotes\n1. There is, despite a flurry of recent republications of some\nslave narratives, only the beginning of an awareness of the importar\nthese documents. Even when the complete WPA narratives will be put\nINDIANA NARRATIVES\nthere will remain scores of items either unpublished or published\nnineteenth century in obscure places (such as church bulletins\nnewspapers) not generally available.\n2. Fisk University, \"God Struck Me Dead,\" mimeographed (N\nSocial Science Institute, 1945); Fisk University, \"Unwritten History\nery,\" mimeographed (Nashville: Social Science Institute, 1945). \"Gy H.\nMe Dead\" was republished, with an introduction by Clifron.\nby Pilgrim Press of Philadelphia in 1969. The \"Unwritten History\nwas republished by Microcard Editions of Washington, D.C.,\nWASHINGTON 1941\n3. Sterling Sruckey, \"Twilight of Our Past: Reflections on\nof Black History,\" Amistad 2 (1971) :261-295.\nFront matter of the Work Projects Administration Project.\nNARA Reference Copy\nINTRODUCTION\nFEDERAL WORKS AGENCY\nWORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION\nI\nFOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA\nThis collection of slave narratives had its beginning in the second\nyear of the former Federal Writers' Project (now the Writers' Pro-\ngram), 1936, when several state Writers' Projects-notably those of\nFlorida, Georgia, and South Carolina-recorded interviews with ex-\nslaves residing in those states. On April 22, 1937, a standard questionnaire\nPaul Edwards, Administrator\nfor field workers drawn up by John A. Lomax, then National Advisor\nMAR-11-98 WED 05:17 AM MANSFIELD PLANTATION INC 717 426 2372\nAmelle S. Fair, Director, Division of Community Service Programs\non Folklore and Folkways for the Federal Writers' Project,' was issued\nMary Nan Gamble, Chief, Public Activities Programs\nfrom Washington as \"Supplementary Instructions #9-E to The Ameri-\ncan Guide Manual\" (appended below). Also associated with the direc-\ntion and criticism of the work in the Washington office of the Federal\nTHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT\nWriters' Project were Henry G. Alsberg, Director; George Cronyn,\nOfficial Project No. 165-2-26-7\nAssociate Director; Scerling A. Brown, Editor on Negro Affairs; Mary\nWork Project No. 540\nLloyd, Editor; and B. A. Botkin, Folklore Editor succeeding Mr. Lomax.'\nOn August 31, 1939, the Federal Writers' Project became the Writers'\nProgram, and the National Technical Project in Washington was termi-\nnated. On October 17, the first Library of Congress Project, under\nthe sponsorship of the Library of Congress, was set up by the Work\nProjects Administration in the District of Columbia, to continue some\nMary Nan Gamble, Acting Project Supervisor\nof the functions of the National Technical Project, chiefly those con-\nFrancesco M. Bianco, Assistant Project Supervisor\ncerned with books of a regional or nationwide scope. On February\nB. A. Botkin, Chief Editor, Writers' Unit\n12, 1940, the project was reorganized along strictly conservation lines,\nand on August 16 it was succeeded by the present Library of Congress\nProject (Official Project No. 165-2-26-7, Work Project No. 540).\nThe present Library of Congress Project, under the sponsorship of\nthe Library of Congress, is a unit of the Public Activities Program of\nthe Community Service Programs of the Work Projects Administration\n, Mr. Lomax served from June 25, 1936, to October 13, 1937. with a ninety-\nday furlough beginning July 24, 1937. According to a memorandum written by\nMr. Alsberg on March i3, 1937, Mr. Lomax was \"in charge of the collection of\nfolklore all over the United States for the Writers' Project. In connection with\nthis work he is making recordings of Negro songs and cowboy ballads. Though\ntechnically on the payroll of che Survey of Historical Records, his work is\ndone for the Writers and the results will make several national volumes of\nfolklore. The essays in the State Guides devoted to folklore are also under his\nsupervision.\" Since '933 Mr. Lomax has been Honorary Curator of the Archive\nof American Folk Song, Library of Congress.\n' Folklore Consultant, from May 2 to July 31, 1938; Folklore Editor, from\nAugust 1, 1938, to August 31, 1939.\n169\nNARA Reference Copy\n170 / APPENDIXES\nFRONT MATTER OF THE WPA PROJECT / 171\nfor the District of Columbia. According to the Project Proposal (WPA\nII\nForm 301). the purpose of the Project is to \"collect, check, edit, index,\nand otherwise prepare for use WPA records, Professional and Service\nSet beside the work of formal historians, social scientists, and novelists,\nProjects.\" The Writers' Unit of the Library of Congress Project processes mate-\nslave autobiographies, and contemporary records of abolitionists and\nplanters, these life histories, taken down as far as possible in the narrators'\nrial left over from or not needed for publication by the state Writers'\nwords, constitute an invaluable body of unconscious evidence or indirect\nProjects. On file in the Washington office in August, 1939, was a large\nsource material, which scholars and writers dealing with the South,\nbody of slave narratives, photographs of former slaves, interviews with\nespecially, social psychologists and cultural anthropologists, cannot\nwhite informants regarding slavery, transcripts of laws. advertisements,\nafford to reckon without. For the first and the last time, a large number\nrecords of sale, transfer, and manumission of slaves, and other documents.\nof surviving slaves (many of whom have since died) have been permitted\nAs unpublished manuscripts of the Federal Writers' Project these records\nto tell their own story, in their own way. In spite of obvious limitations-\npassed into the hands of the Library of Congress Project for processing;\nbias and fallibility of both informants and interviewers, the use of leading\nand from chem: has been assembled the present collection of some two\nquestions, unskilled techniques, and insufficient controls and checks-chis\nthousand narratives from the following seventeen states: Alabama,\nsaga must remain the most authentic and colorful source of our knowl-\nArkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mis-\nedge of the lives and thoughts of thousands of slaves, of their attitudes\nsissippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina,\nroward one another, toward their masters, mistresses, and overseers,\nTennessee, Texas, and Virginia.'\ntoward poor whites, North and South, the Civil War, Emancipation,\nMAR-11-98 WED 05:18 MANSFIELD PLANTATION 426 2372\nThe work of the Writers' Unit in preparing the narratives for deposit\nReconstruction, religion, education, and virtually every phase of Negro\nin the Library of Congress consisted principally of arranging the manu-\nlife in the South.\nscripts and photographs by states and alphabetically by informants\nThe narratives belong to folk history-history recovered from the\nwithin the states, listing the informants and illustrations, and collating\nmemories and lips of participants or eye-witnesses, who mingle group\nthe contents in seventeen volumes divided into thirty-chree parts. The\nwith individual experience and both with observation, hearsay, and rradi-\nfollowing material has been omitted: Most of the interviews with in-\ntion. Whether the narrators relate what they actually saw and thought\nformants born too late to remember anything of significance regarding\nand felt, what they imagine, or what they have rhought and felt about\nslavery or concerned chiefly with folklore; a few negligible fragments\nslavery since, now we know why chey thought and felt as they did.\nand unidentified manuscripts; a group of Tennessee interviews showing\nTo the white myth of slavery must be added the slaves' own folklore\nevidence of plagiarism; and the supplementary material gathered in\nand folk-say of slavery. The patterns they reveal are folk and regional\nconnection with the narratives. In the course of the preparation of\npatterns-the patterns of field hand, house and body servant, and artisan;\nthese volumes, the Writers' Unit compiled data for an essay on the\nthe patterns of kind and cruel master or mistress; the patterns of South-\nnarratives and partially completed an index and a glossary. Enough\neast and Southwest, lowland and upland, ridewater and inland, smaller\nadditional material is being received from the state Writers' Projects,\nand larger plantations, and racial mixture (including Creole and Indian).\n25 part of their surplus, to make a supplement, which, it is hoped,\nThe narratives belong also to folk literature. Rich not only in falk\nwill contain several states not here represented, such as Louisiana.\nsongs, folk tales, and folk speech but also in folk humor and poetry,\nAll editing had previously been done in the scares or the Washington\ncrude or skilful in dialect, uneven in tone and treatment, they constantly\noffice. Some of the pencilled comments have been identified as those\nreward one with earthy imagery, salty phrase, and sensitive detail. In\nof John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax, who also read the manuscripts.\ntheir unconscious art, exhibited in many a fine and powerful short\nIn a few cases, two drafts or versions of the same interview have been\nstory, they are a contribution to the realistic writing of the Negro.\nincluded for comparison of interesting variations or alterations.\nBeneath all the surface contradictions and exaggerations, the fantasy\nand flattery, they possess an essential truth and humanity which surpasses\nas it supplements history and literature.\n'The bulk of the Virginia narratives is still in the state office. Excerpts from\nthese are included in The Negro in Virginia, compiled by Workers of the\nWriters' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Vis-\nWashington, D.C.\nB. A. Botkin\nginia, Sponsored by the Hampton Institute, Hastings House, Publishers, New Sur-\nYork, 1940. Other slave narratives are published in Drims and Shadows,\nJune 12, '94'\nChief Edicor, Writers' Unit\nvival Studies among the Georgia Coastal Negroes, Savannah Unit, Georgia\nLibrary of Congress Project\nWriters' Project, Work Projects Administration, University of Georgia Press,\nA composite article, \"Slaves,\" based on excerpts from three interviews,\nwas 1940. contributed by Elizabeth Lomax to the American Stuff issue of Direction,\nVol. 1, No. 3. 1938.\nNARA Reference Copy\nRECCORDS AND ARRCHIVES ADMINISTRATION\nNational Archives and Records Administration\n8601 Adelphi Road\n1985\nCollege Park, Maryland 20740-6001\nSample Printout of\nThe Slave Narrative Collection, Random Sample of Interviews\nConducted by the Work Projects Administration, 1936-38\nCenter for Urban Ethnology, University of Pennsylvania\nDonated Materials Group CUE\nMay 1, 2002\nThe donor transferred 234 files of the The Slave Narrative Collection, Random Sample of Interviews\nConducted by the Work Projects Administration, 1936-38, to the National Archives and Records\nAdministration (NARA) on computer punch cards. The punch cards were converted by NWME to\nASCII data files with DOS labels (see separate description of the conversion project). NARA chose\nto preserve these files to 18-track 3480 tape cartridges using the Archival Preservation System\n(APSTAR) utility on job 00-0899. This utility created one TAR file by concatenating or grouping\nthe input files into a single output file, with file extension, indicated by a TAR extension. Except for\na header and a trailer in binary, the TAR files use the ASCII character set to store the input files in\n512-byte blocks. NARA staff then produced the following printout(s) from the NARA-created TAR\ncopy.\nNARA's web site is http://www.nara.gov\nNARA Reference Copy\nvolume ID = 010203 - MASTER copy\nAPS RECORD DUMP\nDate: 07/09/2000\nFILE #1 BLOCK # 0 RECORD # 0\n0000\nslvnar2/f001_min.txt\n0040\n666\n0\n0.\n0080\n13247 7061466374\n7516\n00C0\n0100\n0140\n0180\n01C0\nFILE #1 BLOCK # 0 RECORD # 1\n0200\nMOSE MINSER\n1255-ARK/#006\n0240\n1\nAH USE TER COULD TAWK AN. TELL A THI\n0280\nNG PLUM WELL BUT AH BEEN BROKE UP BY À CAH. CAH RUN OVAH MAH HA\n02C0\nID AN AH COULDN' TAWK FUH 30 DAYS. SO NOW AH AIN'T NO GOOD FUH\n0300\nNOTHIN. AH RECOLLECT ONE NIGHT AH DREAM A DREAM. DE DREAM AT AH\n0340\nDREAMT. NEXT MORNING DAT DREAM COME TRUE. JES LIKE AH DREAMT HI\n0380\nT. YES HIT DID. AH WUZ HE AH IN SLAVERY TIME. AH MEMBUH WHEN DE\n03C0\nY FREED US NIGGERS. SE HERE, AH WUZ À PURTY GOOD SIZE KID WHEN\nFILE #1 BLOCK # 0 RECORD # 2\n0400\nDEY FREE US. AH KIN MEMBUH OUR HOUSE. SOT DIS WAY. AN OLE MAR S\n0440\nTER CALLED ALL HIS NIGGERS UP. DEY ALL COME ALONG ROUN IN A SQUA\n0480\nD ON DE PORCH. AH DID NOT HEAH WHUT HE SAID TUH EM. BUT MAH STE\n04C0\nP-PA WUZ DERE AN TOLE US WE WUZ FREE. AN ATTER DEY FREED MAH ST\n0500\nEP-PA AH RECOLLECT HE WENT ON HOME AND FRIED SOME AIGS IN DE U\n0540\nBBEN. KNOW WE DIDN HAVE NO STOVE WE COOKED ON DE FIUHPLACE. AS\n0580\nAH SAID COOK DEM AIGS, GIMME SOME UV HIT. AN HE LEF' DEN. WENT\n05C0\nEAST AND AH AINT NEV AH SEED DAT MAN SINCE. AH MEMBUHS ONCE AH\nFILE #1 BLOCK # 0 RECORD # 3\n0600\nGOT A WHOOPIN BOUT GOIN TUH DE CHINQUE PIN TREE. SOME UV UM TOL\n0640\nE ME OLE MASTER WUZ GWIANTER LET US US QUIT AT DINNUH AN SO IN\n0680\nPLACE UV ME GOIN TER DINNUH AH WENT ON BY DE CHINQUEPIN TREE TUG\n06C0\nGIT SOME CHANKS AH HAD À BROTHUH WID ME. SO AH COME TUH FINE\n0700\nOUT DAT DEY GIN TUH CALLIN US. DEY HOLLERED TUH COME ON DAT WE\n0740\nWUZ GOINTER PICK COTTON. SO IN PLACE UV US G OIN ON TUH DE HOUS\n0780\nE WE WENT ON BACK TUH DE FIEL. OUR FIEL WUZ BOUT A MILE FUN DE\n07C0\nHOUSE. OLE MOSTER WAITED DOWN HERE AT DE GATE. HE CALL ME WHEN\nFILE #1 BLOCK # 0 RECORD # 4\n0800\nAH GOT DERE AN W ANTED TUH KNOW WHY AH DIDN COME AND GIT MAH DI\n0840\nNNAH SOS AH COULD PICK COTTON. SO HE TAKEN MAH BRITCHES DOWN DA\nPage 1\nNARA Reference Copy"
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