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identifier	question
11485	He looked at his boys, then he turned to them nigger traders and yelled out,"What you all doin''here?"
11485	How old was I?
11485	My mammy said she''d never forget Mother Hulsie wringing her hands and crying,''Oh Lawd, what will I do?''
11552	And what did you think about that?
11552	Clothes? 11552 Did she have many slaves?"
11552	How let me ask you, who told you about me? 11552 How old are you?"
11552	What did you have to eat down on the plantation, Aunt Lucy?
11552	What kind of work did you have to do?
11552	Who did you belong to?
11552	Why?
11552	''Alice, ain''this you?
11552	Following are some questions and her answers:"Lucy, did you belong to the Carrolls before the war?"
11552	In the struggle she grabbed a knife and with it, she sterilized[HW:?]
11552	On rainy nights, I''d lie awake and hear"drip, drip... drip, drip...."What was that?
11552	Why, that was the blood a dripping... Why on rainy night?
11552	and I say,''Law me, Miss C''milla'', and''she say,''Alice, why don''you come to see Mother?
11920	''Ai n''t that awful, Miss Mat?''
11920	Another ad in this paper ways[TR: says?]
11920	Another slave, George McVodie, belonging to the Poage family, of Boyd Co., escaped and went to Canada, no[ TR: missing word?]
11920	Do you blame me?
11920	For instance from the diary of Mrs. Wliza[TR: Eliza?]
11920	How would you like to have me whoop you det way?"
11920	I asked,"Why"?
11920	If I got behind or out o''sight somebody was sure to say,''Where''s George''?
11920	If they did come, whe[TR: she?]
11920	Old master would call us about 4 o''clock, and everybody had to get up and go to"Starring"[TR:?].
11920	One song we would always sing was"Who ting- a- long?
11920	Or do you believe in dreams?
11920	Ques: Annie did you ever have a dream to come true?
11920	The negroes in about one hour after the services start being[TR: begin?]
11920	The negroes leave out their R''s use an''t han''t gwin, su''for sir, yea for yes, dah for there and such expressions as,"I''s Ye?"
11920	The worms had eaten his face[HW:?]
11920	The[TR:?]
11920	What was to be done?
11920	Who ting- a- long?
11920	Who''s been here since I''ve been gone?
11920	Williams said,"Why did n''t you shoot?"
11920	Yes, we got ter de prayer meeting en den we went back home de same way en did us niggers run?
19932	Ez you cole?
19932	So yer wan''t me ter tell you de truf? 19932 ''What you going to do''? 19932 Am I Bawn ter Die? 19932 An ef''n it was a Yank come''long, he say too,''What you prayin''''bout?'' 19932 And then sometimes we would meet a white man and he would say,''How you like to come work on my farm''? 19932 Clothes good''nuff fer anybody, candy, en we went ter parties en urther places, en w''at else could I''se wan''?
19932	Come again, wo nt you?
19932	De Jedge said,"Whar did he whup you?"
19932	De Marster ob Pommpy''year''d''m en de Marster made a leetle noise en Pommpy seze,"Who ez dat?"
19932	Did you know that a white woman shot de first cannon dat was ever fired in de state o Georgia?
19932	Ef''n dey met a niggah on de road dey''d say,"Whar ez you gwin dis time ob mawnin''?"
19932	En dere wuz soldier camps in east Nashville en you had ter hab a pass ter git thro?"
19932	En who ez dat gal wid you?''
19932	He hunted all thro de house, en up in de loft, en said whar ez de niggers?
19932	He laughed en sezs,''You ez brave ain''you?''"
19932	He say,''What you prayin''''bout?''
19932	He sezs,"Frankie, ez you laughin''?"
19932	He sezs,"Wuz yo Marster good ter you?"
19932	He''d say,"Frankie ai n''t you cryin''?"
19932	I asked him this morning, did nt I Lola?
19932	I just spoke sassy- like and say,"Old Marster, what you got to tell us"?
19932	I went back ter Missis-- en she sezs,"W''at ez de matter wid you?"
19932	If you and me had her education, we''d be fixed now would nt we?
19932	In 1885 did you say?
19932	Jedge sezs,"Frankie ez dat yo mammy?"
19932	Meet a body in the road and they ask,''Where you going''?
19932	Sometimes''long comes another Yank on a horse an he arsk,''Boy ain you tired?''
19932	They''d hide in the bushes, or wait along side of the road, and when the niggers come from meeting, the Pattyroolers''s say,''Whar''s your pass''?
19932	Yank say,''what you mean, Marster?
19932	You notices how light- complected I is?
19932	You wants to be free, do nt you?''
19932	en dey said,''Ai n''t you out late Henry?
13579	Did your family rejoice when they were set free?
13579	Do you believe in witchcraft?
13579	Do you think President Jackson is in heaven?
13579	Does yohall remembah, Granpap,his daughter prompted,"Yoh mahstah-- did he treat you mean?"
13579	There are many beautiful spots near the Green River and our home was situated near Greensburgh, the county seat of Dreen[ TR: Green?] 13579 Whar Jane?"
13579	What did the roust- about have to do?
13579	What did you all want to see me about?
13579	What is your political viewpoint?
13579	Why are you called George Fordman when your name is Ford George?
13579	Why is the negro?
13579	''Do n''t take him''said the other boy,''Do nt you see he is drunk?''
13579	''What do you call this child?''
13579	Col. Bob offered what he thought was a fair price for my father and a"nigger- trader"raised his bid"25[ TR:$ 25?].
13579	Farmer[TR:?].
13579	George''s mistress received$ 15,00[ TR:$ 15.00?]
13579	He say,''What yoh all doin''heah?''
13579	His first efforts to procure knowledge consisted of reciting A.B.S.s[ TR: A.B.C.s?]
13579	How could I escape this awful presence?
13579	I crept very quiet- like, put my hand in where they was and grabbed, and what do you suppose I had?
13579	I say,''Yoh don''know me?''
13579	One rode up to the fence and when my mother came to the end of the furrow, he said to her,"Lady, could you tell me where Jim Downs''still house is?"
13579	Or am I going to tell it?"
13579	She can not remember her father as he was soon sold after Mrs. Jackson''s death[ TR: birth?].
13579	She come up to me and I put my arms around her, but I could n''t feel nothin''( another sniff from the second wife) and I says,"Babe, what you want?"
13579	She said Scott, in freeing(?)
13579	She was four[ HW:?]
13579	The boss came in and tried to do something for our relief but John said,''Oh, George?
13579	The other said,"What are you going to do?"
13579	Then grief took possession of the little slave, he could not bear the sight of little Dick''s toys nor books not[ TR: nor?]
13579	They[ TR: Then?]
13579	We knew we could run away, but what then?
13579	We''ed cut the pigeon wing, and buck the wind[ HW: wing?
13579	We''s different in every way and can never be spected to think oe[ TR: or?]
13579	What could I do?
13579	What greater hope can be given to the mortal than the hope cherished by Adah Isabelle Suggs?
13579	What yoh all doin''heah?''
13579	When I cm back from d''ahmy, I go home to mothah and say''don''y''know me?''
13579	While I was having this interview, a colored lady passed and this conversation followed:"Good morning Granny, how are you this morning?"
13579	cabin?
13579	from the McGuffy''s[ HW:?]
13579	what an awful thing we have done?
31219	''No''I says,''jes why would I tell whar yo''hide yo''guns an''things?'' 31219 At de surrender did I leave?
31219	De Mitchels[ HW: Mitchells(?)] 31219 Did I ever know of any slaves bein''whipped?
31219	Did I leave atter de war wus ober? 31219 Did any of the colored people leave after freedom?
31219	Did yo''eber eat any kush? 31219 Does you know dat I ca n''t''member much''bout de slave days?
31219	Does you know de old southern way of makin''baked chicken dressin''? 31219 Does you know which am de bes''way ter ketch a hummin''bird chile?"
31219	How does I live? 31219 I has sarved ten months o''my sentence which dey gived me, three ter five years fer manslaughter; what could I do?
31219	My mammy an''me belonged ter Mr. Billy Mitchell[ HW: Mitchell(?)] 31219 No Sir, what you talkin''''bout?
31219	Uncle Jackson, asked the interviewer,"do n''t you remember that house was headquarters of the Federal Army?
31219	Yo''ax me iffen Mis''Betsy was good ter us? 31219 ''Have n''t we done everything for you and given you everything you wanted?'' 31219 ''My,''she said,''whose pretty little girls are you?'' 31219 ''What I gwin to do?'' 31219 ''What can I do? 31219 ''Why will you act so?'' 31219 An the little nigguhs''d say:''Miss Betsy, whah''s Pamplico?'' 31219 Andrews[ TR: Date stamp: AUG? 31219 Are you goin''to run away?'' 31219 Are you goin''visitin''widout a pass? 31219 De officer seed me do''an''he cracks his whup an''makes me come out den he sez,''Nigger what''s dat out dar in dat barrel in de hallway?'' 31219 Den one of de brothers said to de other brothers kinder easy an''shameful like,''Brothers do n''t you think we overdone dis thing?'' 31219 Dey come up an''said,''Haint you got some money round here?'' 31219 Dey would say,''Are you goin''to work? 31219 Did you ever hear of kush? 31219 Fus thing dey say:''Whar yo''pass?'' 31219 Governor Manly owned the block down to the railroad, and we chillun went into[ HW:?] 31219 He didn''lib long atter he whupped, did he?
31219	He told de marster when he come home, marster said,''Did you''low dem women to whup you?''
31219	Her father was clerk of the Rockingham county court as early as[ TR: missing date?]
31219	How could colored people occupy it?"
31219	I axed pa ai n''t dat de man who beat you so when you wus a slave?
31219	I then went to grandma, the one I called mammy and threw my arms around her neck and said,''Mammy we are free, what does it mean?''
31219	Interviewer:"Did the owner collect the pay for the labor, Uncle Jackson?"
31219	L. Andrews[ TR: Date stamp: JUL 24 1937] DILLY YELLADY[ TR: or YELLADAY?]
31219	Slave Nat Scales( named for Marse Nat) had married a black woman who came"across the water", Sallis[ TR: Sallie?]
31219	What''s dat, I''se sebenty seben?
31219	When she come home, Marse Jim''s mammy say:''What all dat goin''on in de fiel?
31219	Where''d I git a fam''ly Bible?
31219	Words: 1,017 Subject: DILLY YELLADAY[ TR: or YELLADY?]
31219	Words: 2036 Subject: PARKER POOL Person Interviewed: Parker Pool Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt PARKER POOL"Good Morning, how is yer?
31219	Yo''think we sen''you out there jes to whoop and yell?
31219	You ai n''t gwine leave me, you ai n''t gwine nowhare, hear me?''
31219	You know what a herrin''fish is?
31219	You see it?
31219	pray?''
22976	Does yo''know de cause of de war?
22976	''Soloman'',''Who was the strongest man?''
22976	''Whare did dey hide do gol''an silver, Nigger?''
22976	''What canon'', I axes?
22976	''Where away?''
22976	''Which way headed?''
22976	''Who was the wisest man?''
22976	''Why doan you punish dem thievin''niggers, Jake''?
22976	A Yankee come to my oldest sister an''said,''Whur is dem horses?''
22976	Are you going to help us?
22976	Dat comes out right, do n''t it?
22976	De marster sorta turns white an''he says ter me,''Will yo''go an''ast de oberseer ter stop hyar a minute, please?''
22976	Den Lincoln come a third time an''had a cannon shootin''man wid him an''he axed,''Is you gwine to set dem slaves free Jeff Davis?''
22976	Den he come de second time an''say,''Is you gwine to turn dem slaves loose?''
22976	Den when freedom cum, she say:"I tole yo''all, now yo''got no larnin'', yo''got no nothin'', got no home; whut yo''gwine do?
22976	Dey would say,''Are you free?
22976	Didn''I tell yo''?"
22976	Do n''t you know it''s bad luck?
22976	Every time dey talk Mis''Fanny set an''twist her han''s an''say:"What is we gwine do, Sister, what is we gwine do?"
22976	Hain''t you heard people count dat way?
22976	Has yo''ever wondered why de yaller wimen dese days am meaner dan black ones''bout de men?
22976	He called dem up to de big house an''give dem er bag of candy, niggertoes, an''sugar plums, den he say:''Who wants er egg nog, boys?''
22976	He cleaned up seven acres, and do you know how he fenced it?
22976	He look at Leonard an''say:''What yo''mumblin''''bout?''
22976	He look at her an''say:''Yo''s skeered of me, ain''yo''?''
22976	He say:"Sarah, did yo''know yo''manmy wah daid?"
22976	He sed,"Lindsey, why don''you stop runnin''roun''wid de girls an''stop you cou''t''n?
22976	How did I learn to read?
22976	How much am I offered for him?"
22976	I does''member seein''de ole''big house''do'', maybe you want me ter tell you how hit looked?
22976	I thought it was thunder, den Mis Polly say,''Lissen, Sarah, hear dem cannons?
22976	I went and asked missus''is it going to rain?''
22976	If they put up a young nigger woman the auctioneer cry out:"Here''s a young nigger wench, how much am I offered for her?"
22976	Interviewer:"Can you read and write?"
22976	Interviewer:"What did you eat?"
22976	Lincoln got the praise for freeing us, but did he do it?
22976	Long then flew into a rage and cursed my father saying,''you damn black son of a bitch, you think you are white do you?
22976	Marse''s brothah, he say:"William, how ole Aunt Sarah now?"
22976	Marster, he say,''What you takin''off you clothes fer Sam?''
22976	On the way to Dickenson he said to me,''Bob, did you know you are free and Lincoln has freed you?
22976	She asked me,''Joe, why does Dave not want to stop?''
22976	Sometimes folks come here and dey writes and writes; den dey asts me, is you goin''to pay dis now?
22976	Sometimes he would stop dem an''say:''Whose niggers am you?''
22976	Tell me ai n''t you my child whom I left on the road near Mr. Moore''s before the war?
22976	Whare you belong?"
22976	What for did you done go an''shoot at my army?
22976	What were you singin''about freedom?''
22976	What will it cost?
22976	When de oberseer comes up de steps he axes sorta sassy- like,''What yo''want?''
22976	When dey brung de young good lookin''Reb up ter de redheaded Gen''l he sez''What you name Reb?''
22976	When he came home before the war ended, Old Marster said,''Soloman why did n''t you stay?''
22976	When she got a chance she came to me and said ai n''t you my child?
22976	When we opened de gate for him or met him in de road he would say,"Who is you?
22976	When you gits a tooth pulled now it costs two dollars, do n''t it?
22976	Where could we go?
22976	Who helped us out den?
22976	Who tole you I wus Dorcas Griffith?
22976	Why?
22976	Words: 386 Subject: JOHN DANIELS Story Teller: John Daniels Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt[ TR: No Date Stamp] JOHN DANIELS Ex- Slave Story[ HW:(?)]
22976	Wuz I eber beat bad?
22976	Yo''''members where ole Company mill is, I reckon?
22976	Yo''axes me what I thinks of Massa Lincoln?
22976	You know where Zebulon is in Wake County?
22976	You remembuh Mary Mann?
11422	''Ai n''t you sorry you free?'' 11422 ''Did you ever vote?''
11422	''How old is you?'' 11422 ''Them your teeth in your mouth?''
11422	''What I''m goin''to be sorry for? 11422 ''Whose you think they is?
11422	Angeline,he said,"you remember me, do n''t you?"
11422	Do n''t ricollect many of de old- time songs, but one was somep''n like--Am I Born to Die?"
11422	Good? 11422 I do n''t read much now since my eyes ai n''t so good but tell me whatever become of Teddy Roosevelt?
11422	My mother was a girl that was sold in Lenoir County, near Kenston,[ HW: Kinston?] 11422 My old mistress slapped me till my eye was red cause one day I says''Ai n''t them men pretty?''
11422	Patrollers? 11422 Visions?
11422	What I been doin''since the war? 11422 What did n''t we do in Texas?
11422	Whose chickens out there?
11422	Why honey,she says to me,"can you remember that?"
11422	You ai n''t never seen a spinnin''wheel has you? 11422 You''member when Grant took the fort at Vicksburg?
11422	Younger generation? 11422 ''What you goin''to do?'' 11422 ''[ HW:?] 11422 Age:? 11422 An''ol''Mis''Combinder she holler out an she say,''What my girls goin''to do? 11422 And the white people said they heard such a hollering and shouting goin''on they said,''What''s the matter with Diana?'' 11422 Ben Word good? 11422 Can you tell us what we going to get and when it''s going to come? 11422 Cora Weathers? 11422 Dat makes me pretty old, do n''t it? 11422 Did ah live in slavery time? 11422 Did you ever hear of a child born wid a veil over its face? 11422 Did you ever hear of an earth stove? 11422 Did you? 11422 Do n''t I know that? 11422 Do n''t you see what that done to my man? 11422 Do n''t you? 11422 Does ah membah hit? 11422 Don yo all think dat yaller bodah( border) set hit off purty? 11422 Dr. Steven( Stephen?) 11422 Four of the boys were buried on the Cummins(?) 11422 Guess I tole you''bout a book, ai n''t I?
11422	Have you seen Mrs. Gillam, and Mrs. Stephen, and Mrs. Weathers?
11422	He fought in the time of the war, did n''t he?
11422	He looked at me a moment, and then he said,''Where you from?''
11422	Her spirit come to me at night, calling me, asking whar wuz baby?
11422	His name was Joe Lee( Lea?).
11422	How old am I?
11422	How soon do you think they will begin paying us?
11422	How we living now?
11422	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Cal Woods; R.F.D., Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 85?
11422	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Callie Halsey Williamson, Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 60?
11422	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: John Wesley, Helena, Arkansas Age:?
11422	Interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: Gus Williams, Russellville, Arkansas Age: 80"Was you lookin''for me t''oder day?
11422	Is ah evah been mahried and does ah have any chillun?
11422	Is ah evah seen a hant?
11422	Is dey hents?
11422	Is many of''em around here?
11422	Is you taking lists of folks for old age pensions?
11422	Me?
11422	My father met her in a place called Buford,[ HW: Beaufort?
11422	No?
11422	No?
11422	Old missis come out one day and say,''Bill, how come you got Hannah plowin''?
11422	She come over from de old country, she was a- runnin''along one day front of a-- a-- dat stripedy animal-- a tiger?
11422	There were windows all[ HW:?]
11422	They asked the old lady,''Where is the horses?''
11422	They brothers?
11422	They put me up and white man ax''Who want to buy this boy?''
11422	They said,''Young man, can you ride a young horse?''
11422	Two white men in a two- wheel open buggy say,''Hey, do n''t you want to ride?''
11422	Was I afraid of the soldiers?
11422	Was she lame?
11422	We ca n''t cook?
11422	What I know''bout votin''?
11422	What I''m goin''to give''i m money for?
11422	What am dat up dar in dat picture frame?
11422	What did dey do?
11422	What do I think of the younger generation?
11422	What do I think was the cause?
11422	What do it smell like?
11422	What does dey look like?
11422	What happened?
11422	What it mean?
11422	What makes''em walk around?
11422	What was the matter with her?
11422	What we do?''
11422	What we goin''do with em?
11422	What you call it?
11422	When I first recollect Marianna, Mr. Lon Tau and Mr. Free Landing(?)
11422	When do you think they will begin to pay us?"
11422	When master came back, he said:"How come you are working today, Angeline, when your baby is dead?"
11422	Where- bouts was I born?
11422	Yo say wha Ai nt Fanny Whoolah live?
11422	Yo say whut mah name?
11422	You do n''t know anything''bout that, do you?
11422	You know about that, do n''t you?
11422	You know what a glut is?
11422	You see dat great grandchild of mine lyin''on de floor?
11422	You think they''re gettin''better?
18484	''Bout our houses? 18484 Aunt Ferebe, are these better times, or do you think slavery times were happier?"
18484	Aunt Ferebe, how did you meet your husband?
18484	Auntie, did you learn to read and write?
18484	Den why do n''t you put your arms down?
18484	Did dey pay us any money? 18484 Did us hev shoes?
18484	Did yer ax me who mah''ed my maw an paw? 18484 Did you always have enough to eat, and clothes to wear?"
18484	Did you ever forget to speak to the children in that way?
18484	Did you ever see folks shear sheep, Child? 18484 Did you have big times at Christmas, Aunt Ferebe?"
18484	Did you notice my pretty flowers and ferns on the front porch?
18484	Did you say patterollers? 18484 Do you believe a screeeh owl has anything to do with death?"
18484	Do you remember any of the old songs you used to sing?
18484	Does Ah''member''bout war time, en dem days fo''de war? 18484 Does I know anything''bout ghosties?
18484	Does I remember''bout the Yankees coming?, Yes ma''am, I sho does. 18484 En is you got ter git on home now, Miss Sarah?
18484	En you ax wuz dey enny thing else uz wuz skert uv? 18484 Games?
18484	I do n''t mind doing that for you, Emmaline,I replied,"but why do you want to know my aunt''s birthday?"
18484	Law honey, does yer want to know''bout my ma''ige? 18484 Mind if I cuts me a chaw of''baccy?
18484	Missy, can you b''lieve it? 18484 Missy, did you know dat Indians camped at Skull Shoals, down in Greene County, a long time ago?
18484	Mist''ess ai n''t you thoo''axin''me questions yit? 18484 Mistess, does you know what you''se axin''?
18484	Nancy do you know any ghost stories, or did you ever see a ghost?
18484	Nancy, did you go out at night and were you ever caught by the patrol?
18484	Nancy, were the slaves on your place ever whipped?
18484	Now Missy, how come you wants to know''bout dem frolics us had dem days? 18484 Were you born in this county, Uncle Tom?"
18484	What drum did you hear-- war drums?
18484	What else did you buy with the money? 18484 What kind of devilment?"
18484	What sort of clo''es did I wear in dem days? 18484 Who ever heered a nigger havin''a license?"
18484	Who taught you to say''Negroes''so distinctly?
18484	Who wuz Miss Millie? 18484 Why did I jine de church?
18484	Why is George so white? 18484 Yes, Honey, de Lord done put it on record dat dere is sho a burnin''place for torment, and did n''t my Marster and Mistess larn me de same thing?
18484	You ax me''bout my gram''ma and gram''pa? 18484 You wants to fin''out my age an''all?
18484	[ HW:?] 18484 After a pause, Melvin asked:Did you ever hear how the niggers was sold?
18484	Ai n''t you never seed one of dem coolin''boards?
18484	And what could you do?
18484	Are you comfortable, Child?
18484	As the visitor approached, the young men leaped to their feet and hastened to offer a chair and Paul said:"Howdy- do, Missy, how is you?
18484	Because of the cruel treatment that she received at the hands of some of her owners[??]
18484	Because of the cruel treatment that she received at the hands of some of her owners[??]
18484	Breakfast was sent to the field to the hands and if at dinner time they were not too far away from their cabins they were permitted to go home[??].
18484	Breakfast was sent to the field to the hands and if at dinner time they were not too far away from their cabins they were permitted to go home[??].
18484	Buy land?
18484	Ca n''t you let him rest now and come back again in a day or two?
18484	De onliest song I ricollects''em singin''at buryin''s was:_ Am I Born to Lay Dis Body Down_?
18484	Dey''lowed:''Nigger, is you got a pass?''
18484	Did you ever see any of it, Chile?
18484	Did you have a license?"
18484	Did you say shoes?
18484	Do n''t you know me?''
18484	Do n''t you know what groundpeas is?
18484	Does you''member dat old sayin''''De ways of de Lawd is slow but sho?''
18484	He jus''laughed and said:''Will you listen to dat''oman?''
18484	Honey, did n''t you know dey could do dat back in dem days?
18484	How cum I''members''bout dem an''de war wuz over den?
18484	How did the people market their cotton then?"
18484	How is you?"
18484	I say,''You ai n''t gon na whip me is you, Miss?''
18484	I was born in 1841 an''that makes me''bout eighty- seven now, do n''t it?"
18484	If I had a had any money what could I have done wid it, when I could n''t leave dat place to spend it?
18484	If asked, upon making a prediction,"How do you know?"
18484	Jus''how far is you done walked?"
18484	Lordy, Mistess, ai n''t nobody never told you it was agin de law to larn a Nigger to read and write in slavery time?
18484	Miss, ai n''t you through axin''me questions yit?
18484	Money?
18484	My brother wuz de captain ob de quill band an''dey sure could make you shout an''dance til you quz[ TR: wuz?]
18484	Now Lady, what would a old Nigger man know''bout somepin''dat did n''t nothin''but''omans have nothin''to do wid?
18484	Now dat do n''t sound so bad, Missy, but did you ever try to pick any seeds out of cotton?
18484	One day he met a old man and he sed"Son what s der matter wid you?"
18484	Questionable entries are followed by[??
18484	Questionable entries are followed by[??
18484	She believes in signs but interprets them differently[ HW:?]
18484	She say,"Jim, whar you been so long?''
18484	The houses that they lived in were one- roomed structures made of heavy plank instead of logs, with planer[ HW:?]
18484	The slave quarters on the plantation were located behind the colonel''s cabin[??].
18484	The slave quarters on the plantation were located behind the colonel''s cabin[??].
18484	There were at least ten shoemakers on the plantation and they were always kept bust[ TR: busy?]
18484	They[ TR: then?]
18484	Whar was slaves to git money whilst dey was still slaves?
18484	What did Niggers have to buy land wid''til atter dey wukked long enough for to make some money?
18484	What for?
18484	What would dey need no jail for wid dat old overseer a- comin''down on''em wid dat rawhide bull- whup?
18484	What would gals say now if dey had to wear dem sort of clothes and do wuk lak what us done?
18484	When asked for the story of her life, Julia replied:"Lordy, Chile, did you do all dis walkin'', hot as it is today, jus''to hear dis old Nigger talk?
18484	When asked if he liked to talk about his childhood days, he answered:"Yes Ma''am, but is you one of dem pension ladies?"
18484	Who ever heared of folks payin''slaves to wuk?
18484	Why Missy, did n''t you know dey did n''t have no sto''-bought coffins dem days?
18484	Why, Child, ai n''t you never seed none of dem old chimblies?
18484	Wo n''t you come in out of the hot sun?
18484	Wo n''t you have a cheer and rest?
18484	Would n''t you lak to have a glass of water?
18484	Yer gwine ter take me home in yer car wid yer, so ez I kin weed yer flower gyarden fo''night?
22166	''Well, what you go''n''do''bout dis land?'' 22166 Atter Old Marster died Old Mist''ess moved to a town called Woodstock, or was it Woodville?
22166	Aunt Snovey do you have any pet superstitions?
22166	Aunt Snovey, I would like so much to have these old chairs you have here-- how about selling them to me?
22166	Aunt Snovey, what are you going to do with all your property-- you have no family and no relatives?
22166	Doctors? 22166 Does I''member de old songs?
22166	Does I''member''bout slav''ey times?
22166	George, is you here already?
22166	Good evenin'', Missy, how is you? 22166 Good- luck and bad- luck signs, you say?
22166	Ha''nts? 22166 Has you axed me all you wants to?
22166	Have n''t you made a will?
22166	How come I done lived so long? 22166 How in de name of de Lawd could slaves run away to de North wid dem Nigger dogs on deir heels?
22166	How is you?
22166	How old are you?
22166	I''m not blaming you Mr. Heard but if I pay you will you take my baby up?
22166	Jails? 22166 Margaret were the slaves on your master''s plantation mistreated?"
22166	Margaret were you ever whipped?
22166	Margaret, did you learn to read?
22166	Me? 22166 Missy did you ever hear dat old sayin''''bout folks gittin''speckledy when dey gits old?
22166	No, mam,said Laura in reply to the question"Did your master have his slaves taught to read and write?"
22166	Often while driving, I would almost drop off to sleep and my old mistress would shout,Milton are n''t you sleepy?".
22166	Oh, it''s''bout my marriage you wants to know now, is it? 22166 Tuther night I was a- singin''dis tune:''Mother how Long''fore I''se Gwine?''
22166	Uncle Dave what did you do when you were a little slave?
22166	Uncle Dave what were the duties of your mother as a slave?
22166	Uncle Dave why were you so obstreperous?
22166	Uncle Dave you did n''t have to be chastised, did you?
22166	Uncle David you say your owners name was Mappin, why is your name Gullins?
22166	Want me to tell you what happened to me in Gainesville, Georgia? 22166 Was that a sinful song, Uncle Shang?"
22166	Weddin''s? 22166 What I et?
22166	What about your father, Uncle Dave?
22166	What did us chillun do? 22166 What did us have t''eat?
22166	What for you wants to know what I played when I was a little gal? 22166 What us wore in summer?
22166	What you say? 22166 Whose on de Lawd''s side?
22166	Why did I jine the church? 22166 Why is I livin''so long?
22166	Why?
22166	''If a fly should light on your head would n''t he slip up and break his neck?''
22166	''Lemme ask you sumpin'', he say,''Where''s de horses?''
22166	''Well, Snovey, how you gittin''''long?''
22166	''Yes, what is it David?''
22166	Albert?''
22166	An''den de boss say:"He had you an''he did''nt have you-- is dat right?"
22166	And, maybe, this gray old son of the soil is right-- who knows?
22166	Asked to describe king of the meadow, she continued:"Honey, ai n''t you never seed none?
22166	Axed Miss Liza to marry me Guess what she said?
22166	Beds?
22166	Chile, ai n''t you got no''baccy wid you, jus''a little''baccy?
22166	De day dey told us dat us was free dere was a white man named Mr. Bruce, what axed:''What you say?''
22166	Did n''t I tole you we did n''t do no work?
22166	Did n''t my Miss Fannie, tell me one time she was gwine to put potash in my mouth to clean it out?
22166	Did n''t you know slaves did n''t have sho''nough weddin''s?
22166	Did you say jails?
22166	Do n''t you know what Georgy feathers was?
22166	Do n''t you know you is free as jay birds?''
22166	Doctors?
22166	Have you got any money?''
22166	He got a knot on his side, ai n''t he?''
22166	He got scared and said, what fer, Ma?
22166	He say,''What''ll you have, lady?''
22166	He would say''Nig, what you want for supper?''
22166	How could anybody be converted on dat kind of preachin''?
22166	How could dem Niggers run off to de North when dem patterollers and deir hounds was waitin''to run''em down and beat''em up?
22166	Howdy you do?"
22166	I hollered out:''Who dat?''
22166	If I tell you somewhere to go will you go, and tell them I sent you?''
22166	It''s somepin''to think about, ai n''t it?
22166	Lak to a got lost did n''t I?
22166	Me?
22166	Me?
22166	Mistreat?
22166	Mistus would say,''Where''s dem chillun, Mammy?''
22166	Now''bout Raw Head and Bloody Bones, Honey, do n''t you know dat ai n''t nothin''but a cows head what''s done been skint?
22166	Old folks used to ax us:''Has you seed Raw Head and Bloody Bones?''
22166	One of de songs us sung playin''chilluns games was sorter lak dis:"Whose been here Since I been gone?
22166	See how big it is?
22166	She looked at me kinda funny and said, do n''t you believe he''s hurt?''
22166	That cap?
22166	That night all the slaves went up to the"Big House", wurried an''askin''''Young Marster Tom, where is we goin''?
22166	Then, with a hearty laugh he said,"now Miss, just what is it you want me to tell you?"
22166	Us made sho''he was atter some pore slave,''til he yelled out:''What you Niggers wukkin''for?
22166	Was it fit for bread- makin''?
22166	Well, you know what was de fust stealin''done?
22166	What I played?
22166	What do you say to that?"
22166	What does you want to know''bout dat for?
22166	What is we goin''to do?''
22166	What wuz sea sugar?
22166	What you wanter know?
22166	When time came for my father to register, the Registrar says,"John, what name are you going to register under, Mappin or Gullins?
22166	When you did come out dey would say:"You been in de marster''s house-- how did it look in dere-- whut did you see?"
22166	Where is it?
22166	Why?
22166	Wo n''t you come in and have a seat?"
22166	Wo n''t you have a seat and rest?
22166	Yes, mam, I''se sho''dat wuz the name-- the Publican Baptist Church-- ain''t I been there all my life''till I been grown and married?
22166	You lak whisky?''
22166	You see dat table?
22166	stand for?"
22166	tall and often as I walked with him, he would ask,"Isaiah, do you love your old master?''
13602	Ai n''t it a sight?
13602	Auntie,she was asked,"have you time to tell me something about slavery times?"
13602	But the children had a good time, did n''t they? 13602 But you had clothes to wear?"
13602	Did I tell youGeorgia began,"dat de man what looked atter Marse Alec''s business was his fust cousin?
13602	Did you know I had jus''come back from Washin''ton, whar I visited dat lawyer son of mine? 13602 Did you sing spirituals, Nancy?"
13602	Did you suffer during the war?
13602	Do you plant by the moon, Nancy?
13602	Hit''s pooty, ai n''t it?
13602	How big was dat plantation? 13602 How come I jined de church?
13602	Majres(?) 13602 May I come back to see you at your house?"
13602	Money? 13602 Nancy, was n''t your mistress kind to you?"
13602	Tell you mo''about the ole times? 13602 What are you doing Frank?"
13602	What de slaves done on Saddy night? 13602 What de slaves done when dey wuz told dat dey wuz free?
13602	What did us have to eat? 13602 What did you do about funerals, Nancy?"
13602	What does I think''bout freedom? 13602 What does I''member''bout de war?
13602	What games did we play? 13602 What is you talkin''''bout Miss?
13602	What sort of tales did they tell''mongs''t the slaves''bout the Norf befo''the war? 13602 What was dat you was a- axin''''bout jails, Miss?
13602	What would you have thought of that if it had suddenly appeared in the sky when you were a child?
13602	What you talkin''''bout Miss? 13602 When did I git married?
13602	When they told you were free, Nancy, did the master appear to be angry?
13602	Why did I join the church? 13602 ''Doctor what you think? 13602 ''Got what?'' 13602 ''Miss Ruth, what I gwine do? 13602 ''What does you know''bout no war?'' 13602 ''Why does you search For all dese earthly things? 13602 A few things they dosed the slaves with when they were sick was horehound tea, garlic mixed with whiskey, and the worm- few( vermifuge?) 13602 After observance of the amenities; comments on the weather, health and such subjects, she began:Whar was I born?
13602	Ai n''t I been a- tellin''you he was de President or somepin lak dat, dem days?
13602	Ai n''t she a fine lookin''gal?
13602	Albert?''
13602	Another of his parables was:''If you ca n''t keep up wid de man at de foot, how is you gwine to keep up wid de higher- up folks?''
13602	At the conclusion of the interview Susan asked:"Is dat all you gwine to ax me?
13602	Atlanta, Ga. July 25, 1936[TR:?]
13602	But wo n''t you come up on my porch and have a cheer in de shade?
13602	Dat a simple thing to do, ain''it?
13602	Dat did n''t look right, did it?
13602	Dat meant if you ca n''t sarve God here below, how is you gwine to git along wid him if you gits to Heben?
13602	De hymns dey sung de most wuz"Amazin''Grace"an''"Am I Born ter Die?"
13602	Den what your child gwine do?''
13602	Dey hold right hands and de preacher ax de man:''Do you take dis gal to do de bes''you kin for her?''
13602	Did you know''bout Juliette?
13602	Did you want to see me?"
13602	Does I lak to talk''bout when I wuz a chile?
13602	Does you hear me, Boy?
13602	Does you know anythin''''bout Mr. John Bacon dat used to run de only hotel dar den?
13602	Had you been to the do''befo''?"
13602	Have you ever seen one?
13602	Have you got any money?''
13602	Have you plenty to eat?
13602	He come on by and say:''Nancy, how you feelin''?''
13602	He got a knot on his side, ai n''t he?''
13602	He got scared and said, what fer, Ma?
13602	He say:''Miz Nancy?''
13602	He say:''Who dat, you, Miz''Nancy?''
13602	He see me walkin''along crooked and he say:''Auntie, what''s de matter?''
13602	He''d try one medicine and if it did n''t do not[ TR: no?]
13602	His plantation was a large one and on it was raised cotton, corn, cane[TR:?
13602	How come you axes''bout colored folks''es weddin''s?
13602	How did Ah do it?
13602	How did they get along?
13602	I call out:''Bee, I thought you was gone off?
13602	I know dey could not eat all of them in a day and I''m afrait it von''t be goof[ TR: goot?
13602	I say:''Bee, how long you bin out?''
13602	I say:''Hunh?''
13602	I went on so over him, his mother say:''Do n''t you know his last words was,''I''m on my way to heaven and I ain''gwine turn back?''
13602	Ida, ai n''t dere a piece of watermelon in de ice box?"
13602	If I tell you somewhere ter go will you go, and tell them I sent you?''
13602	Ike laughed as he said:"How many boys would wuk for dat pay for a week now, let alone a whole month?
13602	It scared me; and I said to her, did you see that dog?
13602	Lordy, did n''t I tell you what sort of shoes, holestock shoes is?
13602	Many women cried while they served[ TR: sewed?]
13602	Miss, ai n''t you through axin''me questions yet?
13602	Miss, what is de government gwine do next?
13602	Missy, how you reckon he gwine help me if he dead?
13602	Mrs Byrd''s mother was a full[ TR: field?]
13602	Must Jesus bear the cross alone and all the world go free?
13602	Now warn''t dat turrible?
13602	Now what yer gwine do''bout it?''
13602	Now, says she, do you[ TR: know?]
13602	One of dem songs us chillun loved de best went lak dis:''Why does you thirst By de livin''stream?
13602	One the ladies say,"How come they let all these niggers and babies come in the house?"
13602	Religion played as important part in the lives of the slaves, and such[ TR: much?]
13602	She added:"Do you mind me axin''you one favor?"
13602	She looked at me kinda funny and said, do n''t you believe he''s hurt?''
13602	She rubbed the painful spot and resumed:"You know what I am wearin''on my leg now?
13602	They played games?"
13602	W- h- o- o- o?
13602	We had a bad dog that did n''t take no foolishness off nobody, so when he kept barking them Yankees cursed him and do you know he heshed up?
13602	What cap?
13602	What did I want to have a big weddin''for when all I was atter was my man?
13602	What is you doin''here in de President''s waitin''room?''
13602	What would gals say now if dey had to wear dem kind of clothes?
13602	What you want?''
13602	When us played our hidin''game, us sung somepin''lak dis:''Mollie, Mollie Bright Three score and ten, Can I git dere by candlelight?
13602	Where is it?
13602	Where was I born?
13602	Who wants a gun over''em lak a prisoner?
13602	Would he have a nickle cigar?
13602	You ever see any saddle bags, ma''am?
13602	You know what she done?
13602	You lak whisky?''
13602	[ TR: breast- pins?]
13602	or good?]
19446	Ai n''t it warm and nice today missy? 19446 Cap''n, wud ye lak fer me ter tell ye bout dat time dat me en Delia wuz stole?
19446	Do you want your room now?
19446	Does you remember chinquapins? 19446 Have you ever seen a three- legged cow?
19446	How long I been in Arkansas? 19446 How ole is ah?
19446	I''d say to her,''Grandmother, why did n''t you fight back?'' 19446 Ku Klux?
19446	Me? 19446 Miss Huggins?
19446	One time old marster say''Charlie how come this yard so dirty?'' 19446 School?
19446	So you''re going to Fayetteville to see Miss Adeline? 19446 Sold?
19446	Yankee soldiers? 19446 You all chillun ain goin is you?
19446	You ask does ah know erbout any hainted houses? 19446 You ask haint ah got no folks?
19446	You asks is ah afeard of haints? 19446 You know what the clocks says?
19446	You say she worked for you when you were a little girl? 19446 You says you is interested in buried treasure?
19446	You wants to know how old I am? 19446 # 1 Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 70--73? 19446 # 658 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Rosa Hardy Biscoe, Arkansas Age:? 19446 # 773 Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Cora L. Horton 918 W. Ninth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: Between 50 and 60? 19446 ''What are you getting?'' 19446 ''Where''s his money hid?'' 19446 ''Where''s his silverware?'' 19446 ''Where''s yo''old master?'' 19446 ''Who will give me a bid on this woman?'' 19446 A voice from somewhere said:''What you all doing here? 19446 Age: 60? 19446 Age: 85? 19446 Age:? 19446 An see that bee after my flower? 19446 Before the fire of 1913? 19446 Boss Man, is yo eber et er ash cake? 19446 Ca n''t you tell by me that he was white? 19446 Could n''t eat? 19446 Dancing and going to church is about all they do now, is n''t it? 19446 Della crawled out of the car right now and said:You all knows the way back to town don''you?
19446	Dem paddyrollers, dey wud stop er nigger whut dey find out at night en sey,''Boy, whar yo gwine?
19446	Did he have a big farm and lots of black folks?
19446	Did n''t you bring old Aunt Pinkie somethin''good to eat?
19446	Did you ask they send her to the sylum?
19446	Did you ever know Bishop Lane out in Tennessee?
19446	Did you ever see a loom?
19446	Do you know what Fanny has done?
19446	Does Ab preach there?
19446	Don you all know you had orter take keer of thet purty white skin of yourn?
19446	Don''you see him comin?
19446	En is yo got yo pass?''
19446	Finally old man Nick noticed us and said,''What do you children want?''
19446	Hang a man just because he could read?
19446	He said''Now you think you can quit eatin''that dirt?''
19446	He said,''Now, is you the oldest?''
19446	He said:''Well Mr. have you got any objection to me and your daughter Janie maryin''?''
19446	He sent me to Hendersonville, North Carolina( Henderson?)
19446	How come if it was n''t hoodooed?
19446	How they do?
19446	How was he dressed beneath the blanket?
19446	How''d I make it?
19446	I do n''t think those people were held accountable for that, do you?"
19446	I like[ HW:   lack?
19446	I said,''What is they?''
19446	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Hannah Hancock[ HW:   Biscoe, Arkansas?]
19446	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Jake Goodridge Clarendon, Arkansas Age: 97?
19446	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Pauline Howell Nickname Pearl Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 65 or 70?
19446	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Tanny Hill Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 56?
19446	Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ida Harper 819 West Pullen Street; Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 93"Now what you want with me?
19446	Just then somebody started knockin''and Tony says,''Who''d dat?''
19446	Look at that black boy passing, will you?
19446	MAY 31 1938 Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Betty Harris Brinkley, Arkansas Age: About 45 or 50?
19446	Me?
19446	Mr. Henderson''s sister was name Mrs. McGaha(?).
19446	Mus Jesus bear de cross alone and all de worl go free?
19446	Name of interviewer: Thomas Elmore Lucy Person interviewed: Laura House Russellville, Arkansas Age: 75?
19446	Now is dat right?
19446	Ole master said to them,''Where''s Tillie?''
19446	One big Yankee stepped inside and says to Miss Becky,''You own any niggers?''
19446	One day I was there and she said,''Sis, do you hear that peckerwood?
19446	She say,''Where that come from?''
19446	Sixty- seven years we been living right in this place-- I guess-- when did you say the war had its wind up?
19446	So what would he do out nights?
19446	So you remembers my barbecue, do you?
19446	That''s a long time to stay by one man ai n''t it?"
19446	The first my mother heard she was working doing something and somebody say,''What you working fur do n''t you know you done free?''
19446	The old man did n''t want the young one to see how anxious he was to get rid of his daughter so he said:''You wantin to marry my daughter, Janie?
19446	Then her papa, John Abbot( Abbott?
19446	Then she said:"Does you all know Phil Green?
19446	There was a man shining up to me and I wrote my niece''What would you think if your aunty married?''
19446	They changed and started calling''em counties in 1866[ HW:   1868?]
19446	They said''Why did n''t you work harder?
19446	They would ask them,''How are you working?''
19446	Was n''t it a bee?
19446	Was n''t it nice of her, though?
19446	Was n''t that awful?
19446	What did you bring me?
19446	What you after?''
19446	When de Yankees ud come dey would ax my mammy,''Aunt Mary, is you seen any Se- cesh today?''
19446	When they saw how fast I work, they say:''Mother, why do n''t you make something worth while?
19446	Why make so many washrags?''
19446	You ca n''t tell people what you can do?''
19446	You ever hear of this here Dick Lake?
19446	You heard em say flies do n''t bother boilin''pots ai n''t you?
19446	You know dat''s so, boss, do n''t you?
19446	You says why did I run?
19446	You see dat ole kittle settin''ober dar by de lasses pan right now?
19446	You see how rough my hands is?
19446	You want me to show you?"
19446	[ HW:   Bushville or Brushville(?)]
19446	[ HW:   place?]
19446	[ HW:  ?]
19446	[ HW:  [ WPA?]]
19446	_ Jack_:"You say how did I do it?
19446	_ Jack_:"You say our nephew wants to come out and bring a bunch of young folks and wants me to take them''possum hunting some moonlight night?
11255	''How did you lose your arm?'' 11255 Did a colored man marry you?"
11255	Did he say the ceremony?
11255	Did you go away?
11255	Did you have a nice supper?
11255	Did you have a wedding?
11255	Did you have any brothers and sisters, Aunt Liz.?
11255	Do you know how old you are?
11255	Does I get a pension? 11255 How am I supported?
11255	How many chillun I have? 11255 How many tines did you marry, Aunt Add.?"
11255	How old is she?
11255	How was that?
11255	How were you dressed?
11255	I been farmin''all my life and what have I got? 11255 I beg your pardon, can you tell me where to find Wade Street and James Baker?"
11255	Jonas, can you remember anything about the war or slavery time?
11255	Jonas, if your owners were Hewitts why is your name Boone?
11255	Klu Klux? 11255 Me?
11255	Me? 11255 Me?
11255	Miss, do you believe in ha''nts? 11255 Now whose story are you saying this is?
11255	So you was a''Tarheel''too? 11255 Well what do you want to own it for?
11255	What is I been doing? 11255 What you want to go out there for?"
11255	What you writing down? 11255 Who is Price a fightin''?
11255	Why did your folks move to Arkansas?
11255	You did?
11255	You wants to know how old I is? 11255 You wants to know what I think of the way young folks is doing these days?
11255	''72?
11255	1103 State Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 107?
11255	?
11255	?
11255	A duck, a bullfrog and a skunk went to a circus, the duck and the bullfrog got in, why did n''t the skunk get in?
11255	Age:?
11255	Age:?
11255	And I said,''What must I do?''
11255	Are they goin''to give the old slaves a pension?
11255	Arkansas Age: About 80?
11255	Ast me is I been doing?
11255	At last he said:"Love, did I not tell you that I would soon come again to see you?"
11255	Boone?
11255	Ca n''t I do it as fast as if I had a head full of keen eyes?
11255	Can I build a wagon-- make all the parts?
11255	Could I sew?
11255	Dat-- dat-- dat''s de house over da-- da-- da-- da-- r. He-- he-- he lives at his daughter''s""Could that be he on the porch?"
11255	Did I say Harris brought us?
11255	Do n''t you know if they find it out they will kill you?"
11255	Do you want to hear how I runned away and jined the Yankees?
11255	Good to me?
11255	Have you been down in Argenta to the Roundhouse?
11255	He put me up on a block an''he say,''How old is dis nigger?''
11255	He worked the????
11255	He worked the????
11255	He worked the????
11255	He worked the????
11255	He would say,''Whut you hittin''me for when I got a pass?''
11255	How did it happen?
11255	How much I get?
11255	How old does that leave me?
11255	I asked the merchant"How old is she?"
11255	I do n''t think a person is free unless he can vote, do you?
11255	I heard her say,''Did you see the soldiers pass early this morning?''
11255	I heered''em say,''Did you know they sold Aunt Sally away from her baby?''
11255	I know about that?
11255	I may be in glory time I get it and then what would become of my wife?"
11255	I said,"Auntie, what have you in that box?"
11255	I said,"May I carry your meal or your meat?"
11255	I said,''What you goin''to pay me?''
11255	I stopped and said,"Auntie, could you direct me to Molly Brown''s house?"
11255	I telled you my number, didnft I?
11255	I used to go out to the fields and they would ask me,''Jeff Bailey, what you do in''out here?''
11255	If Bob met a Negro carrying cotton to the Gin, he would ask"Whose cotton is that?
11255	If your father''s sister is not your aunt what kin is she to you?
11255	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Mattie Aldridge Age: 60?
11255	Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Bob Benford 209 N. Maple Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 79"Slavery- time folks?
11255	Interviewer: Mrs. Rosa B. Ingram Person interviewed: Lizzie Barnett; Conway, Arkansas Age: 100?
11255	Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Jennie Butler 3012 Short Main Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: Between 103 and 107[ HW: Nurses?
11255	It was:"If you had to be blown up which would you choose, to be blown up on the railroad or the steamboat?"
11255	J.J. Gambol( Gamble?)
11255	July 10, 1850?
11255	Let''s see-- Powell Clayton-- was he one of the presidents?
11255	Marriage"You see that broom there?
11255	Missy, was you ever on a river boat?
11255	My grandpa was a white man; mama''s pa."What I been doin''from 1864- 1937?
11255	My mistress said,''What?''
11255	My mother belonged to her son and she said,''Agnes( that was my mother''s name), will you follow me if I buy your husband?''
11255	Named after her?
11255	Occupations and accomplishments, with dates-- Farmed till 21, public work?
11255	Old age pension?
11255	Our owner was Myers(?)
11255	Peace was declared in 1865, was n''t it?
11255	Plenty to eat?
11255	She said,''Betty, would n''t our mama cry if she could see us off like this?''
11255	She told him it was asking too much, what would happen to her and her family if they found those weapons in her possession?
11255	That was in''74, was n''t it?
11255	That was n''t yistiday was it?
11255	That would be about 1870, would n''t it?
11255	The heart is n''t educated and if my heart is black as my hat, can I do anything for God?
11255	Then I said teasingly,"Why you think I have a nickel?"
11255	Then what did I do?
11255	Vote?
11255	Want to hear about it?
11255	Was they more run- aways there?
11255	What did I do on that boat?
11255	What else you want to know, Miss?
11255	What is the difference between a four quart measure and a side saddle?
11255	What kind books did we have?
11255	What they keer''bout you being white or black?
11255	What they want to ask all these questions for then?
11255	What would a heap of them do?
11255	When he was gone, I said,''Miss Sue, where is Master Alex?''
11255	Who showed me how?
11255	Why would n''t I love her when I sucked titty from her breast when my mammy was working in the field?
11255	Will it help us along any or make times any better?
11255	You asking me what was the shares?
11255	You axes me how it seem to earn money?
11255	You do n''t know how I can thread the needle?
11255	You ever been to Monticello?
11255	You says did I like living in the army?
11255	You says you wants to know how I live after soldiers all go away?
11255	You want a drink?
11255	You''d rather sit right there on the step?
11255	[ HW: migration?]
11709	''Who made you?'' 11709 ''Why did He make you?''
11709	''Why did you enlist?'' 11709 ''Why ought you to love God?''
11709	After camping here for a while they came back into Arkansas to some point near Rando, crossed Red River at Dooley''s Ferry, went to Coola Fabra(?) 11709 De old show days?
11709	Did I vote? 11709 Fight''round us?
11709	Granny lived in a house behind the white church(?) 11709 How come I here?
11709	How did I farm? 11709 How do they live?
11709	How many brothers and sisters? 11709 How ole is ah?
11709	How''d they know was freedom? 11709 I beg your pardon,"was her greeting,"can you tell me where Wade Street is?"
11709	I member seein''the soldiers-- Yankees-- eight or ten in a squad and they asked me did I want to ride with em? 11709 I member they was a white man called Dunk Hill and he said,''Virginia, who freed the niggers?''
11709	Is that somebody a''knockin''?
11709	Me? 11709 Now, what is this you''re gettin''up?
11709	Old John Blue( Belew?) 11709 Reckon you''ve seen about all dar is to see in de worl''since I seen you, ai n''t you?
11709	Was I happy? 11709 Well, what the old folks goin''to get out of this?"
11709	What did I do after the war was over? 11709 What did I do?
11709	What kinda work have I done? 11709 Where was I born, ma''am?
11709	You know how long I went to school? 11709 Younger generation?
11709	''Did you ever know your master to tell you a lie?''
11709	''Member''em?
11709	''Miss Robinson,''says I,''can I go over to see the Smiths?''
11709	''Whut ailin''ye''lazy neggers?''
11709	( You remember de little old train dey used to call de''Dinkey''do n''t you?)
11709	A dime for him ma''am-- an''2 cents besides?
11709	After I come home I taken a backset[TR:?]
11709	After that, I worked for the Quapaw Club[HW?]
11709	Age:?
11709	Ai n''t it in the kitchen?
11709	Ai n''t you seen these here long thin hick''ry shoots?
11709	And do you know why I was a''going?
11709	Blackberry cobbler?
11709	Blue Back?
11709	But who could imagine that cotton- seed was once the universal food eaten in this vicinity by the colored people?
11709	Ca n''t you find it nowheres?
11709	Camden?.
11709	Ches[TR:?]
11709	Count up-- dat makes me 79( born 1859), do n''t it?
11709	De Glove[TR:?]
11709	De Governor axed me how does I lac''dis life?
11709	De fus''question he axed me wuz''whut party does yo''''filiate wif?''
11709	Did I share crop?
11709	Did she know the whereabouts of any ex- slaves?
11709	Did you ask me about the voting restrictions for the colored race in this State?
11709	Do n''t you remember what I told you?
11709	Emma( Bama?)
11709	Finally, my father asked him,''Now, what are you able to do?''
11709	He was a Negro--(???).
11709	He was a Negro--(???).
11709	He was a Negro--(???).
11709	How did it happen that it was not Ashley?...
11709	How many years is that?
11709	How''d they not know it was freedom?
11709	I said,''Do n''t you know me?''
11709	I said,''What is that?''
11709	I wore two pieces, a lowel[HW:?]
11709	I worries from one meal to de odder, I worries about whure I''ze gwine get some mo''clothes when dese wears out?''
11709	I''d say,''What you want?''
11709	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Laura Rowland( Bright Mulatto) Age: 65?
11709	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Maggie Stenhouse,( a mile down the railway track), Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 72?
11709	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Annie Thompson, Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 55?
11709	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: George Robertson?
11709	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Wester Thomas, Marianna, Arkansas Age: 79"I was born in Sumpter County( Mississippi?).
11709	Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Mandy Tucker 1021 E. 11th Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 80?
11709	Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Rosa Simmons 823 West 13th Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85?
11709	Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person Interviewed: Laura Thornton 1215 W. Twenty- Fourth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 105?
11709	Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Anthony Taylor 2424 W. Ninth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 68, or 78?
11709	Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Minnie Johnson Stewart 3210 W. Sixteenth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: Between 50 and 60?
11709	It was about 1881 was n''t it?
11709	It was the Tallahassee(?)
11709	J. Robertson( Robinson?
11709	Me?
11709	Me?
11709	Mean?
11709	Mr. Sam Austin sole old man Burgy( Burgiss?)
11709	My grandfather and mother employed these men to guide them to Coola Fabre(?)
11709	Need it?
11709	Ol lady where''s my pipe?
11709	Old miss come in and say,''Ai n''t you goin''whip this nigger?''
11709	One ob de men asked Mr. Foster,"Where at dat d-- n nigger?"
11709	Outside I dashed to_ drop flat on the sidewalk_[HW:?]
11709	Place and date of birth-- Camden, Arkansas?
11709	Remember him?
11709	Rich?
11709	Seein''is believin''ai nt it?
11709	She has seen the marks on my mother''s back and has asked,''Mama, what''s all these marks on your back?''
11709	She say,''Where you been?''
11709	Sonny, you hear me?
11709	Stole a unifawm coat of yours?
11709	That''s some fambly ai nt it?
11709	The Ku Klux come, pulled off his robe and door face, hung it up on a nail in the room, and said,''Where''s that Jim Jesus?''
11709	The Rebs?
11709	The nigger would ask right back,''How you goin''to vote?''
11709	The owners was mighty careful( not)[HW:?]
11709	The retirement board wanted to know when I asked for a pension, why did I think I was entitled to a pension?
11709	The surrender was in May, was n''t it?
11709	Then at the last moment caution began to assert itself, and I said,"When was the last time you saw the cabin?"
11709	They come in the yard and steal my potatoes, collards, turnips, ochre( okra?
11709	They cut ice in blocks and put it up for winter[HW:?].
11709	They got for the grown ups 3 pounds meat, 1 pk.[TR:?]
11709	They say,''Was n''t you out there doin''so and so?''
11709	They was_ sole_[HW:?]
11709	War?
11709	Was I afraid?
11709	What I do wid my money I made?
11709	What become of him?
11709	What dat yo say?
11709	What did they work at?
11709	What?
11709	What_ didju_ do with it?
11709	When I got back one ob dem niggers looks at me suspicious like and asks,"where yo been, nigger?"
11709	When I would get there old mos would say Ca''line did you run him?
11709	Who was goin''to give it to''em?
11709	Who were they, what did they do, where did they live, where are they now?
11709	Whut in de world I would want er vote for?
11709	Why?
11709	You did n''t find it up to daughter''s?
11709	You know Buck Couch down here at Noble Lake?
11709	[ TR: Moved from end of interview: De Soto was buried at the junction of the Mississippi and[??]
11709	[ TR: Moved from end of interview: De Soto was buried at the junction of the Mississippi and[??]
11709	or George Robinson?
11709	the young woman asked,"would you like a pencil of your very own, to draw with?"
11709	time?
11709	underskirt and a lowel[HW:?]
13700	''Do n''t you see them, honey?'' 13700 Ai n''t I always told you Yankees has horns on their heads?
13700	Can you tell me where the restaurant is?
13700	Capn, ai nt yo eber heard tell of de speckle- ladies? 13700 Capn, did yo eber hear of de"Chapel Hill"fight dat de colored folks en de white folks he d in Mississippi?
13700	Did you ever hear of Tucky- Nubby? 13700 Did you ever hear of Walter Cotton, a cancer doctor?
13700	Did you find him?
13700	Do I believe in signs? 13700 Do you mean the colored restaurant?"
13700	Does you know Miss Pearl? 13700 Her childun was grown and they used to come by and say,''Ma, why do n''t you take that nigger out of your bed?''
13700	How''d I know bout to git in war? 13700 I beg your pardon,"said the interviewer, approaching the step,"is this the home of Peach Sinclair, and will I find Mrs. Lou Fergusson here?"
13700	I said,''What you doing out here so early this morning?'' 13700 I was born in Sardis, Mississippi, Panolun(?)
13700	Me? 13700 My young master got up and said,''Where is my spy glasses?
13700	Near Cotton Plant there was a log cabin( Methodist?) 13700 Papa said,''Ai n''t you''fraid they''ll kill you if they see you?''
13700	So you- all got together?
13700	They said,''Hell, what could he see?'' 13700 They would say back,''Where you got it?''
13700	When Henry git back Mr. Harvey say,''Henry, where your sack? 13700 You ever eat dried beef?
13700	You gets''round lots, son, do n''t you? 13700 A colored woman stops to stare at the white one, plants herself directly in the stranger''s path and demands,Is you the investigator?
13700	A white man standing at the bar there said to me,''What do you mean, nigger, insulting the guests here?''
13700	After a long time-- oh, maybe five years-- one day they ax pappy--"Are you got some white folks back in Arkansas?"
13700	Age: 75?
13700	Ai n''t you shamed?''
13700	And I say,''Why?''
13700	And I says to him,''You gets full price for your half, why ca n''t I get full price for mine?''
13700	And I''d say,''What is free?''
13700	And how come you ai n''t pickin''cotton stid runnin''off like dat?''
13700	And later in the chat,"You done lost everything?
13700	At the close of the first day''s interview when I arose to go he said to me,"Now you got what you want?"
13700	Been married once?
13700	Ben[TR:?]
13700	Ca n''t you tell?
13700	Ca n''t you tell?
13700	Coroner?
13700	De Yankees sumhow dey missed us place en neber did fin hit, en do de damage er bruning[ TR: burning?]
13700	Did I say I''d been here two weeks?
13700	Did n''t we live good?
13700	Did we dance?
13700	Did you ask somethin''''bout old time songs?
13700	Did you ever know where the old penitentiary was?
13700	Did you know that the fust real free school in Little Rock was opened by the govment for colored chullens?
13700	Dis other lady ai n''t de one that wuz wid you las''summer is she?
13700	Do n''t you hear em playing Dixie?''
13700	Do you know anything that a man can put on his leg to keep the flies off it when it has sores on it?
13700	Even your home-- that''s going?
13700	Farm?
13700	He kept lookin''at me and directly he said''Can you cook?''
13700	He would ask,''No paper today?''
13700	He would say to the man:"Do yo''want this woman?"
13700	Help her?
13700	Here young missy, what is yo doin wid that pencil?
13700	Him and Jack( Robertson, Robson, Robinson?)
13700	His name was Mr. Wimbeish(?).
13700	How I a- living now?
13700	How could they help but steal when they did n''t have nothin''?
13700	How d I know it was freedom?
13700	How is he?
13700	How old?
13700	How''d I come to Hot springs?
13700	How''d we get the land?
13700	I have knowed people have went away and they''d bring''em back dead, and I''d say to myself,''I wonder how he died?''
13700	I say,''Miss Betty, I smell ginger bread, ca n''t I go git a piece?''
13700	I say,''Where you get that hoss?''
13700	I think if we pay taxes we ought to vote for payin''taxes makes us citizens don''it?
13700	I thought,''Oh, Lord, is somethin''goin''to happen to my son?''
13700	I was fast was n''t I?
13700	I went through there so fast and come back, mama say,''You done been to town already?''
13700	I''m a- thinking we''re a- living in the last days, honey, what does you think?
13700	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lewis Chase; Des Arc, Arkansas Age: 90?
13700	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Wash Ford, Des Arc, Arkansas Age: 73 or 75?
13700	Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Jeff Davis 1100 Texas Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85[ May 31 1938]"What''s my name?
13700	Interviewer: Mrs. Zillah Cross Peel Person interviewed: Doc Flowers Age: 85?
13700	Interviewer: Pernella M. Anderson Person interviewed: Sarah Douglas Route 2, Box 19-A, El Dorado, Arkansas Age: 82?
13700	Is times right now?
13700	Is you asking me that?
13700	It was a long time I kept wondering what is freedom?
13700	It''s awful hot, ai n''t it?
13700	Joe Golden?
13700	Just what can I do for you?"
13700	Lady ai n''t you seed one yit?
13700	Lordy, where''ll we go?
13700	Married-- does you know how we folks married in them days?
13700	Me?
13700	Me?
13700	My brother seed him and said"Solomon, what you doin here?"
13700	My father was named Bob Lee( Lea?).
13700	My young master said,''What you looking for?''
13700	My young master said,''Whip him for what?''
13700	No?
13700	Now do n''t you think that dream was a warning?
13700	Now what am I?
13700	Pretty good?
13700	Say honey, is you a relief worker-- one of them welfare folkses?
13700	See that little white church over de hill?
13700	See that sign up there?"
13700	The Yankee soldiers come down that[ HW: then?]
13700	The Yankees said,''We''s freed you all this mornin'', do you want to go with us?''
13700	Then the doctor said,''What are we going to do?''
13700	Then they say"What is dat?
13700	Then they say,"You bin a good boy?"
13700	They packed us in their big amulance... you say it was n''t a amulance,--what was it?
13700	They runned out and said,''What did you say?''
13700	They say"Nells what you do?"
13700	They say"What this?"
13700	They say"What you raise?"
13700	They say,"What he do?"
13700	They say,"Who live next down the road?"
13700	They say,"You raise grass here?"
13700	They say,"You raise grass too?"
13700	They would say,''Whose nigger are you?''
13700	Uncle Jerry said:"Whut did she say?"
13700	Was I with my Mother?
13700	Was he good to us?
13700	Was n''t that a plenty children doe?
13700	Well who is you looking for?
13700	Whah would the niggers get guns and shoot to start a uprisin?
13700	What did I do with my money?
13700	What did I know''bout initials?
13700	What they coming here for?''
13700	What yo say your name was?
13700	What you call him?
13700	What you come to see me for?
13700	What''s that, pretty young?
13700	What''s that?
13700	When Bill come home he say,''How come you to sass my wife?
13700	When old master come after us, he''d say,''What you gwine say?''
13700	When we got to my mother''s, I said,''How old is I?''
13700	You ask does I have stripes on my back from bein beat in slave''y times?
13700	You do n''t know what a deadening is?
13700	You know what that was, Miss?
13700	You know what''ma''he was talking about?
13700	You know where that is?--Camden on the Ouachita?
13700	You say yo''wants tuh talk tuh Tom?
13700	You says Sarah told you that las''year?
13700	You says old uncle Boss tell you I''se old slave lady?
13700	You wants to know, honest?
13700	Your Mother was a Dengler?
13700	[ HW:_ Water_ or_ Milk_ added?]
13700	and to the girl,"Do yo''want this boy?"
11544	Cook? 11544 De young folks of today compa''ed to dem when we was boys?
11544	Did I ever vote? 11544 Did I live up to it?
11544	Did they_ whip_ us? 11544 He said,''What makes you think that?''
11544	History uv whut?
11544	How did we like him? 11544 I beg your pardon,"she began, pausing,"can you tell me where I will find Emma Sanderson?"
11544	I told him, and he said to me,''Will you say that to him?'' 11544 Is n''t it too cold for you, ca n''t you just tell me?
11544	Is that your grandson?
11544	Ku Klux? 11544 Me?
11544	Miss Mary, do you know Miss Julia Huggins? 11544 My father was born in Mississippi-- Sardis, Mississippi-- and my mother was a Tennesseean--_Cartersville_[HW:?]
11544	My grandfather''s mother[HW:?] 11544 Now you want me to tell you bout this young nigger generation?
11544	Papa said,''How much should he have given me?'' 11544 Run off?
11544	Superstitions? 11544 The white man turned to me at once and said,''How much was coming to him?''
11544	Then they said,''Are you going to test this?'' 11544 They said,''Now uncle, we want you to tell the truth, does she feed you well?''
11544	Vote? 11544 Vote?
11544	Well, where you been? 11544 What''s that about?"
11544	What''s that you''re writin''?
11544	Younger generation? 11544 Your name''s Hudgins?
11544	''Where shall I be when the first trumpet sounds?
11544	''Why do n''t you go on in your bedroom and lie down?''
11544	( 1)"In eighteen hundred and sixty- one Football(?)
11544	( 2)"In eighteen hundred and sixty- two Football(?)
11544	( 3)"In eighteen hundred and sixty- three Football(?)
11544	( 4)"In eighteen hundred and sixty- four Football(?)
11544	( 5)"In eighteen hundred and sixty- five Football(?)
11544	( 6)"In eighteen hundred and sixty- six Football(?)
11544	( 7)"In eighteen hundred and sixty- seven Football(?)
11544	( This was in Trenton(?
11544	A little white,[?]
11544	After de Civil War?
11544	After that they carried her down into Trenton(?
11544	Age 75?
11544	Ai n''t I heard her say it many a time?
11544	And I remember some one saying-- asking a question,''You got to say master?''
11544	And he would say,''You want to go to church?''
11544	And what did she find out?
11544	Any big parties for colored people?...
11544	At the end of the war mother cooked for Nick Rightor(?)
11544	Born in Arkansas?
11544	Cake?
11544	Company come and say,''Where the babies?''
11544	Did I know Adeline?
11544	Directly she see us and say''What you doin''?
11544	Do n''t it seem natural that history should repeat itself?
11544	Do n''t you know old mistress got you rented out?
11544	Do n''t you know what a budget is?
11544	Do n''t you remember when Booker T. Washington was here?...
11544	Do you mean to tell me she''s still alive?
11544	Good to me?
11544	Good?
11544	Guess your husband is right proud of you?
11544	He said they got in a tight[ TR: missing word?]
11544	He said to me:"''Ca n''t you get my mail if I let you ride on my horse?''
11544	He said,''Are you going to obey my orders?''
11544	He says,''Oh God, what she know bout Yankees?''
11544	He was sold twice to the same people, from the Millers to the Robertsons( Robersons, Robinsons, etc.?).
11544	Her father was a white man and her mother part Indian and white mixed, so what am I?
11544	How many chillun?
11544	I aimed[?]
11544	I finished Good[HW: sp.?]
11544	I heard a fellow say,''Have you got anything to eat?''
11544	I remember just as well when I got back to where my mother was she asked me:"Boy, why you come here?
11544	I told''em,''Law, do n''t you think I see lots, lots more than I wants, everyday when I is at home?''
11544	I was goin back down to the old place and some soldiers passed riding along and one said"Boy where you goin?
11544	I was old enough to have the knowledge she would know how old I was and I said,''How old am I?''
11544	I went in then and said,''Mama, is you dyin''?''
11544	In 1906[TR:?]
11544	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Bessie Myers, Brassfield, Arkansas Age: 50?
11544	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Helen Odom and mother, Sarah Odom Biscoe, Arkansas Age: 30?
11544	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Joe Mayes, Madison, Arkansas Age:?
11544	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Lettie Nelson St. Marys Street, Helena, Arkansas Age: 55 or 56?
11544	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Rachel Perkins, Goodwin, Arkansas Age:?
11544	Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person interviewed: Wylie Nealy[ HW: Biscoe Arkansas?]
11544	Interviewer: Miss Sallie C. Miller Person interviewed: Pete Newton, Clarksville, Arkansas Age: 83[ TR: 85?]
11544	Interviewer: Mrs. Annie L. LaCotts Person interviewed: Harriett McFarlin Payne Dewitt, Arkansas Age: 83"Aunt Harriett, were you born in slavery time?"
11544	Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ada Moorehead 2300 E. Barraque, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 82?
11544	Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Charlie Norris 122 Miller Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 81"Born in slavery times?
11544	Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Fannie Parker 1908 W. Sixth Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 90?
11544	Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Griffin Myrax 913 Missouri Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age 77?
11544	Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Ivory Osborne Route 5, Box 158, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 85"Know about slavery?
11544	Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden Person interviewed: Lizzie McCloud 1203 Short 13th Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Age: 120?
11544	Interviewer: Mrs. Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Avalena McConico on the[ TR:--------] west of Brinkley, Arkansas Age: 40[TR:?]
11544	Is yo''ma and pa livin''now?
11544	It is a giant, ai n''t it?
11544	It took me ten years to save enough money to start out with my first 500 of everything.... You want to see them?...
11544	It''s in Nashville[HW:?]
11544	Kind of cold, ai n''t it?"
11544	Lady, could you tell me?
11544	Lay it by?
11544	Me?
11544	Miller, West Memphis, Arkansas Age: 65?
11544	Mollita[?
11544	My old master named me-- Just called me''Puss?
11544	Niggers did n''t know that[TR:?]
11544	No ma''am, her name was not Miller, it was Wade.... Where did I get my name, then?
11544	Now what do they have?
11544	Old master say,''Now, Jordan, why you run off?
11544	Old miss heard and said,''Who do you s''pose it could be?''
11544	One day we was drivin''up some stock and I said,''Miss Nannie, how old is you?''
11544	One of my mistresses said,''Why do you say,''Hurrah for Lincoln?''
11544	Reckon when will they get back like that?"
11544	Say you''re a widow?
11544	She asked them about it and they told her,''Do n''t you know you are free?''
11544	She said, Mama, is the devil coming?
11544	She was smart, was n''t she?
11544	Some of these days a fine man going to find you and then, er-- er, lady, let me cater for the wedding?"
11544	South[?]
11544	That''s more than a third, ai n''t it?
11544	The old lady who I went to said:"''You walk way down here by yourself?''
11544	The year after that, in''83,[HW:?]
11544	Then he questioned the Lord; he said,''Lawd, what sawt[ HW: sort] of a Lawd is you?
11544	Then she was refugeed from one place to another through Helena to Trenton(?
11544	There came a peculiar knocking on grandmother''s[HW: great grandmother?]
11544	They look to white folks for right kind of doings[?].
11544	They said,''What you doin''there?
11544	They say,''Where the little black chile?''
11544	They say,''Where you keep your milk and butter?''
11544	Time came when the grandchildren up in the grades and with_ semi- modern_[HW:?]
11544	To the old man, I said,"Is that your son?"
11544	We was marchin''along the line and a Rebel soldier said,''Do n''t you want to go home and stay with my wife?''
11544	What all do n''t they do?"
11544	What happened to her?
11544	What is a colonel?
11544	What you talkin''about?
11544	What you talkin''bout-- bein''married and goin''to school?
11544	What''s that?
11544	When it went out of service, Captain Newcome from the War Department transferred me over to the Mississippi River on the_ Arthur Hider_(?).
11544	Why did they whip her?
11544	You ai n''t never been to war, have you?
11544	You know where Little River County is do n''t you?
11544	You know who Miss Mary is now, do n''t you?
11544	You see those two houses jam up against one and''tother?
11544	[ HW:?]
11544	[ HW:?]
11544	[ TR: Much of this interview smeared and difficult to decipher; illegible words indicated by"----", questionable words followed by"?".]
12297	''Hol''on,''Ah tells''er,''you ai n''t forgot dat beatin''yit? 12297 ''Now lissen,''I tells''er,''effen I comes home drunk, do n''t you go t''bressin''ee[TR:?]
12297	''Now''he says, wat''s all dis about?'' 12297 ''Well, Taylor,''da officer say, when he pay me off''you gwine ship wid us again?''
12297	A what?
12297	A what?
12297	And what did he do to the bad ones?
12297	Did n''t that kill them?
12297	Do what?
12297	Do you remember anything about the Civil War?
12297	Do you want to be baptized?
12297	Does I blieve in witches? 12297 Does stock breeders wit a$ 10,000-stallion put''i m on de plow?...
12297	Hol''on, dar, boy,''''dey sing out,''wha you gwine so fas''? 12297 How I know I so old?"
12297	How did he punish his''pets''?
12297	How do you know you got religion?
12297	How do you know your sins are forgiven?
12297	How old are you?
12297	I see you have no glass in the windows-- doesn''t it get you wet when it rains?
12297	Sho''nuf massy?
12297	Uncle, he say,''who''s out there? 12297 W''en I gits on deck a cullud boy''bout my size say''Wanna look about a bit?''
12297	What dat?
12297	What did my passengers look like? 12297 What did your father think of the way she treated you?"
12297	What in the world did she do that for?
12297	What''s dis,''Ah say to de man ahead o''me,''huccome dat white man do n''t bus''dat damn yeller swab wide open?'' 12297 Why do you want to be baptized?"
12297	Why is that?
12297	''Dat you mammy?''
12297	''Wait,''says de bos''n;''de deck jes''be''n swabbed down-- why bloody hit up, Cap''m?
12297	''You hungry, Boy?''
12297	An I had sistehs by de name ob Isabella, Mary, Nora,--dat ai nt all yet, you want I should name em all?
12297	As a young person what sort of work did you do?
12297	As a young person what sort of work did you do?
12297	Dar hit-- don''t dat say a hunndrt an''nine?
12297	De nex mawnin I be boin[TR: goin?]
12297	Dem songs?
12297	Did they have a hanging pot in the fire place, and did they make their candles of their own tallow?
12297	Did they have a hanging pot in the fire place, and did they make their candles of their own tallow?
12297	Did you Missus whip you?''
12297	Did you ever use an ox to plow with?
12297	Did you know any Negroes who enlisted in the Southern Army?
12297	Did you know any Negroes who enlisted in the southern army?
12297	Did you know any Negroes who enlisted or joined the northern army?
12297	Did you know any Negros who enlisted or joined the northern army?
12297	Did you use an open well or pump to get the water?
12297	Did you use an open well or pump to get the water?
12297	Did you witness the happenings and what was the reaction of the other Negroes to them?
12297	Did you witness the happenings and what was the reaction of the other Negroes to them?
12297	Did your family work in the rice fields or in the cotton fields on the farm, or what sort of work did they do?
12297	Did your family work in the rice fields or in the cotton on the farm, or what sort of work did they do?
12297	Did your master join the Confederacy?
12297	Did your master join the confederacy?
12297	Did your master''s house get robbed or burned during the time of Sherman''s march?
12297	Did your master''s house get robbed or burned during the time of Sherman''s march?
12297	Did your mother use big, wooden washtubs with cut- out holes on each side for the fingers?
12297	Did your mother use big, wooden washtubs with cut- out holes on each side for the fingers?
12297	Do you know anything about political meetings and clubs formed after the war?
12297	Do you know anything about political meetings and clubs formed after the war?
12297	Do you know anything regarding the letters and stories from Negroes who migrated north after the war?
12297	Do you know anything regarding the letters and stories from Negroes who migrated north after the war?
12297	Do you remember evaporating sea water to get salt?
12297	Do you remember evaporating sea water to get salt?
12297	Do you remember ever having, when you were young, any other kind of bread besides corn bread?
12297	Do you remember ever having, when you were young, any other kind of bread besides corn bread?
12297	Do you remember ever helping tan and cure hides and pig hides?
12297	Do you remember ever helping tan and cure hides and pig hides?
12297	Do you remember making imitation or substitute coffee by grinding up corn or peanuts?
12297	Do you remember making imitation or substitute coffee by grinding up corn or peanuts?
12297	Do you remember saving the chicken feathers and goose feathers always for your featherbeds?
12297	Do you remember saving the chicken feathers and goose feathers always for your featherbeds?
12297	Do you remember the money called"shin- plasters"?
12297	Do you remember the money called"shin- plasters?"
12297	Do you remember the way they made shoes by hand in the country?
12297	Do you remember the way they made shoes by hand in the country?
12297	Do you remember what kind of cooking utensils your mother used?
12297	Do you remember what kind of cooking utensils your mother used?
12297	Do you remember what sort of soap they used?
12297	Do you remember what sort of soap they used?
12297	Do you remember when women wore hoop[ TR: illegible] in their skirts and when they stopped wearing them and wore narrow skirts?
12297	Do you remember when women wore hoops in their skirts, and when they stopped wearing them and wore narrow skirts?
12297	Do you remember when you first saw bed springs instead of bed ropes?
12297	Do you remember when you first saw bed springs instead of bed ropes?
12297	Do you remember when you first saw ice in regular form?
12297	Do you remember when you first saw ice in regular form?
12297	Do you remember when you first saw your first windmill?
12297	Do you remember when you first saw your first windmill?
12297	Do you remember your grandparents?
12297	Do you remember your grandparents?
12297	Do your friends believe in charms and conjure bags, and what has been their experience with magic and spells?
12297	Frost Tampa, Florida May 19, 1937"MAMA DUCK""Who is the oldest person, white or colored, that you know of in Tampa?"
12297	His father said"you''ve saved 200 dollars out of what I''ve allowed you?"
12297	His father said,"do you know how far that will go?"
12297	How did they get the lye for making the soap?
12297	How did they get the lye for making the soap?
12297	How did you pass the time as a child?
12297	How did you pass the time as a child?
12297	How did your family''s life compare after Emancipation with it before?
12297	How did your family''s life compare after Emancipation with it before?
12297	How many slaves were there on the same plantation and farm?
12297	How many slaves were there on the same plantation or farm?
12297	How much did various foods and drinks and commodities cost just at the end of the war and afterwards?
12297	How old was she?
12297	How old were you at the close of the civil war?
12297	How''bout lettin''''em fight on shore?''
12297	I did n''t know it would make me sick, but was I sick?
12297	I jes''goes into a saloon, peaceful like, an''a damn Limey says, pointin''to a British flag on dere own ship,''You see dat flag?''
12297	If they worked in the house or about the place, what sort of work did they do?
12297	If they worked in the house or about the place, what sort of work did they do?
12297	If you were born on a plantation or farm, what sort of farming section was it in?
12297	If you were born on a plantation or farm, what sort of farming section was it in?
12297	Instead of having an overseer they had what was called a"driver"by the name of Januray[TR:?].
12297	Know what dem holes be for?
12297	Lawzy me, chile, dem wus de good days, who give an ole niggah like me a hot toddy dese days?
12297	Mrs. Abigail Dever[TR:?
12297	My Ma?
12297	My Sunday dress?
12297	Need we guess what happened to the over ambitious children?
12297	No, maam, I did n''t see none dem Yankee sojers but I heerd od[TR: of?]
12297	Or was he wounded and killed?
12297	Or was he wounded or killed?
12297	Our missus had od[TR:?]
12297	Some of the questions that would be asked at these meetings in the vestry room would be:"What did you come up here for?"
12297	The children would say, almost in concert,"what you say pa, is it a boy or girl?"
12297	The only way I knew who they were was to ask them;"What you say?"
12297	Then he saw a ring upon Mrs. Dove''s finger and asked:"Where did you get this?"
12297	They had 12 children, seven boys-- Abraham, Tutus[TR:?
12297	Think I wanna th''ow dat away?
12297	Think I wanna throw dat stuff away?
12297	Wait a minnit, I did n''t show you my pitcher what was in de paper, did I?
12297	Was your master kind to you?
12297	Was your master kind to you?
12297	Were there any Negro teachers in your community?
12297	Were there any Negroes of your acquaintance who were skilled in any particular line of work, if so give details?
12297	Were there any Negroes of your acquaintance who were skilled[ TR: illegible] particular line of work?
12297	What did they use for dyeing thread and cloth and how did they dye them?
12297	What did they use for dyeing thread and cloth, and how did they dye them?
12297	What do you remember about Northern people or outside people moving into a community after the war?
12297	What do you remember about northern people or outside people moving into the community after the war?
12297	What do you remember of his return from the war?
12297	What do you remember of his return from the war?
12297	What interesting historical events happened during your youth, such as Sherman''s army passing through your section?
12297	What interesting historical events happened during your youth,--such as Sherman''s Army passing through your section?
12297	What kind of uniforms did they wear during the civil war?
12297	What kind of uniforms did they wear during the civil war?
12297	What sort of chores did you do and what did you play?
12297	What sort of chores did you do and what did you play?
12297	What sort of medicine was used in the days just after the war?
12297	What sort of medicine was used in the days just after the war?
12297	What sort of plow?
12297	What sort of school system was there for the instruction of the Negro?
12297	What war de giff?
12297	What were your main foods and how were they cooked?
12297	What were your main foods and how were they cooked?
12297	What you want?''
12297	What''s the matter?
12297	What?
12297	When did you see the first buggy and what did it look like?
12297	When did you see the first buggy and what did it look like?
12297	When the driver pulled off he said to Claude''s mother who was sitting on the seat with him,"Doan you know you is free now?"
12297	When you were a child, what sort of stove do you remember your mother having?
12297	Where, and about when, were you born?
12297	Where, and about when, were you born?
12297	Whose War?
12297	Why buy ice, when watermelons and butter could be ley down into the well to keep cool?
12297	Without hesitating, the master pointing to one of his small cabins on the plantation said--"You see that house over there?"
12297	You ain never been rid by a witch?
12297	You do n''t know what''s a battlin''stick?
12297	You doan blieve dat?
12297	You doan know what a battlin stick is?
18485	''Bout Christmas Day? 18485 ''Member de war?
18485	''Possums? 18485 And I suppose you remember about slavery days?"
18485	And did you have plenty of other good things to eat?
18485	And did you have plenty of other things to eat?
18485	And so you used to look after you aunt''s children?
18485	And was your master good to you, Auntie?
18485	And were you born on the plantation at Edgefield?
18485	And what did he do to the overseer?
18485	And what did you do on the plantation, Auntie?
18485	And what kind of houses did you have?
18485	And where did you go to church?
18485	And you say the woman went to visit him?
18485	Auntie do you remember seeing any of the soldiers during the war?
18485	But were you happy on the plantation?
18485	Daddy Luke, can you_ kill_ the snake?
18485	Daddy Luke, can you_ kill_ the snake?
18485	Dances? 18485 Did the Eves have a house on the plantation, too?"
18485	Did the overseers ever whip the slaves or treat them cruelly?
18485	Did the overseers whip you or were they good?
18485	Did they have only one room?
18485	Did you ever hear of dem logrollin''s? 18485 Did you ever see your family again?"
18485	Did you ever see your mother afterwards?
18485	Did you give your wife presents when you were courting?
18485	Did you give your wife presents when you were courting?
18485	Did you have a good time at Christmas?
18485	Did you like your new master?
18485	Did your Master live through the war?
18485	Did your master ever sell any of the slaves off his plantation?
18485	Do you remember anything about the Yankees coming to this part of the country?
18485	Do you remember anything about the good times or weddings on the plantation?
18485	Do you remember when freedom came?
18485	Do you think she would mind your taking an automobile trip?
18485	Do you think she would mind your taking an automobile trip?
18485	Do you want to ride to the old plantation to- day?
18485	Do you want to ride to the old plantation to- day?
18485	Does I? 18485 Does you mean dat you is willin''to set here and listen to old Neal talk?
18485	Had you hear of airplanes before you saw one, Uncle Willis?
18485	Had you heard of airplanes before you saw one, Uncle Willis?
18485	Have you ever slept in the grave yard? 18485 Have you had breakfast?"
18485	Have you had breakfast?
18485	Honey, did n''t you never hear tell of Dr. Frank Jackson? 18485 How about dances, Auntie?
18485	How about marriages?
18485	How about marriages?
18485	How did they spend Sundays? 18485 How is you?
18485	How many children have you?
18485	How many slaves did your Master have, Auntie?
18485	I guess you had plenty to eat in those good old days?
18485	Marse Dillard often met a darkey in the road, he would stop and inquire of him,''Who''s nigger is you?'' 18485 Miss Lucy Holcome was Governor Pickens''second wife, was n''t she?"
18485	Missy,he said,"ai n''t dat jus''lak one of dem old- time Niggers?
18485	Now Missy, how was Nigger chillun gwine to git holt of money in slavery time? 18485 Now, Missy, how come you wants to know''bout my weddin''?
18485	Our houses? 18485 So you had a happy time in those days, eh?"
18485	So you remember a lot about those times?
18485	So your master would sometimes be across the water?
18485	The only riddle I remember is the one about:''What goes around the house, and just makes one track?'' 18485 Uncle Willis, did you ever see the doctor again?"
18485	Uncle Willis, did you ever see the doctor again?
18485	Were you ever sold during slavery times, Aunt Ellen?
18485	Were you separated from your family?
18485	What about church? 18485 What about our food?
18485	What did Niggers have to buy no land wid, when dey never had no money paid''em for nothin''''til atter dey was free? 18485 What did we have to eat then?
18485	What did you do after freedom was declared?
18485	What did you do after freedom was declared?
18485	What did your marster say when you told him you were going to leave? 18485 What did your master say when you told him you were going to leave?
18485	What did your mother do after the war?
18485	What happened if they caught you off without a pass?
18485	What happened, Auntie, if a slave from one plantation wanted to marry a slave from another?
18485	What kind of work did some of the slave women do?
18485	What kind of work did you do on the plantation?
18485	What you want?... 18485 When the colored troops came in, they came in playing:''Do n''t you see the lightning?
18485	Where is Aunt Rena?
18485	Where is Aunt Rena?
18485	Where was he all that time?
18485	Who dat?
18485	Who shall the waiters be? 18485 Why I live so long, you asking?
18485	You mean Colonel Jones, the one who wrote books?
18485	You mean she was her step- mother?
18485	''Boy, how you gettin''on?''
18485	''Boy, how you getting on?''
18485	''Boy,''he says,''Is you tryin''to ax for Lida?
18485	''I am not blaming you, Mr. Heard, but if I pay you will you take my baby up?''
18485	''What are you laughing at?''
18485	''Why?''
18485	''in turn''?]
18485	And my sister say,''How come you here all by yourself?''
18485	As an example, Pat Walton, aged 18, colored and slave,"allowed"to his young master in 1861:"Marse Rosalius, youse gwine to de war, ai n''t yer?"
18485	As contented as[ TR:''they''replaced by??]
18485	As contented as[ TR:''they''replaced by??]
18485	As was his usual habit, he had[ TR:''obtained''replaced by''learned''?]
18485	Ask whar is me?
18485	Ask whar is me?
18485	Asked, how did the slaves marry?
18485	Aunt Flora she started to cry; and she said:''Lordy, Is He daid?
18485	Carrie Lewis, a slave on Captain Ward''s plantation in Richmond County, said, when asked where she went when freedom came,"Me?
18485	De preacher talked a little and prayed; den atter de mourners had done sung somepin on de order of_ Harps[ HW: Hark?]
18485	Did n''t your master have the preacher come and marry you?"
18485	Did they have dances and frolics?"
18485	Did you go to church in those days?"
18485	Do n''t you hear the thunder?
18485	Do n''t you hear the thunder?
18485	Do n''t you hear the thunder?
18485	Do n''t you know what a frow is?
18485	Do you know that oman could n''t drink water in her house?
18485	Do you see this finger?
18485	Eugene said when the colored troops come in, they sang:"Do n''t you see the lightning?
18485	Food was not so plentiful in the[ TR:''army''replaced by??]
18485	Food was not so plentiful in the[ TR:''army''replaced by??]
18485	Freedom was discussed on the plantation[ TR:??]
18485	Freedom was discussed on the plantation[ TR:??]
18485	Have you ever seen a bear comin''down a tree?
18485	He found conditions so ideal[ TR:''that not one thing was touched''replaced by??].
18485	He found conditions so ideal[ TR:''that not one thing was touched''replaced by??].
18485	He said the Negro troops came in, singing:"Do n''t you see the lightning?
18485	He say:''Hey, boy, wheh you gwine?''
18485	He say:''Hey, boy, wheh you gwine?''
18485	His slaves, he said, were always practically free, so a little legal form did not[ TR:''add''replaced by??]
18485	His slaves, he said, were always practically free, so a little legal form did not[ TR:''add''replaced by??]
18485	How big was dat plantation?
18485	How you know Marster gwine pay?''
18485	How you know Marster gwine pay?''
18485	I asked him:''What you want me to sign for?
18485	I axed him if it would be enough for all of his fambly, and he said:''How come you ax dat, boy?''
18485	I said to her:"Name o''God Aunt Candis( dat wus her name) whut is you doin''?"
18485	I yell out:''What in de name o''God is dat?''
18485	I yell out:''What in de name o''God is dat?''
18485	I''se hungry fer de sight ov a spinnin''wheel-- does you know whare''s one?
18485	If my old man had done''scribed for de paper lak I told him to, us would have knowed when Jesus died?"
18485	If you stay, you you mus''sign to it''I asked him:"What you want me to sign for?, I is free."
18485	In a little while he yeared her voice sayin'',''Skinny, Skinny, do n''t you know me?
18485	Is I got to tell you''bout dat old Nigger I got married up wid?
18485	Is dat what you come''ere for?
18485	Is you ever et any good old ashcake?
18485	Lady say:''Doctor, what you think of him?''
18485	Lady say:''Doctor, whut you think of him?''
18485	Let me cut you a bunch of my flowers?"
18485	Lordy, Missy, ai n''t you never seed no coolin''board?
18485	Marster call me up and say:''Willis, why would n''t you sign?''
18485	Marster call me up and say:''Willis, why would n''t you sign?''
18485	Mistis say to me:''Well, Laura, what did you see?''
18485	Now Missy, see how dese Niggers''round here is allus up to deir meanness?
18485	Now, Missus, what does you want to know?
18485	Once I asked my father why he let us go so hungry and ragged, and he answered:''How can we help it?
18485	One of dem old songs went sort of lak dis:''Must I be born to die And lay dis body down?''
18485	Pillows?
18485	Ransom, my son, what did she give you to eat?
18485	Sunday clothes?
18485	Towns asked the old man with the gun--"Daddy Luke, can you_ kill_ the snake?"
18485	Uh hunh Where shall the wedding be?
18485	Uh hunh, uh hunh"Where shall the wedding be?
18485	Was he sorry?"
18485	Was he sorry?"
18485	What did you tell your Mistis?''"
18485	What you talkin''''bout?
18485	What you want to know''bout my weddin''for, nowhow?
18485	When I got dere, wus I dirty?
18485	When I went back he says ter me,''Emmaline, have you got 8 dimes?''
18485	When asked why she did n''t get married again, she replied,"Whut I wanner git married fer?
18485	When he got there he said just like this:''You have sickness do n''t you?''
18485	When he had finished he would ask:"Who do you belong to?"
18485	When the visitor admitted that these interviews were part of her salaried work, Addie quickly asked:"What is you gwine to give me?"
18485	When we got outside Mistis said:''Ed, you suppose them Yankees would spill their blood to come down here to free you niggers?''
18485	Where was I?,"John began.
18485	Wo n''t you come in?
18485	You never saw any hornyheads?
18485	You wanna go home and see Papa?''
18485	You wonder why its broke?
18485	[ HW: Dist-1- 2 Ex- slave# 114( Mrs. Stonestreet)] ADELINE WILLIS-- EX- SLAVE[ Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937] Who is the oldest ex- slave in Wilkes County?
18485	[ HW:?]
18485	[ Rush?]
18485	she exclaimed,"Does you smell dat funny scent?
18485	were[ TR:''there was something to look forward to when they thought of''replaced by??]
18485	were[ TR:''there was something to look forward to when they thought of''replaced by??]