Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves

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Title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3
Author: Work Projects Administration
Release Date: June 1, 2006 [EBook #18484]
Language: English
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SLAVE NARRATIVES
A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT 1936-1938 ASSEMBLED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Illustrated with Photographs
WASHINGTON 1941

VOLUME IV
GEORGIA NARRATIVES
PART 3

Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Georgia
INFORMANTS
Kendricks, Jennie 1 Kilpatrick, Emmaline 8 Kimbrough, Frances 14 King, Charlie 16 Kinney, Nicey 21
Larken, Julia 34 Lewis, George 47
McCommons, Mirriam 51 McCree, Ed 56 McCullough, Lucy 66 McDaniel, Amanda 71 McGruder, Tom 76 McIntosh, Susan 78 McKinney, Matilda 88 McWhorter, William 91 Malone, Mollie 104 Mason, Charlie 108 [TR: In the interview, Aunt Carrie Mason] Matthews, Susan 115 Mays, Emily 118 Mention, Liza 121 Miller, Harriet 126 Mitchell, Mollie 133 Mobley, Bob 136
Nix, Fanny 139 Nix, Henry 143
Ogletree, Lewis 146 Orford, Richard 149
Parkes, Anna 153 Pattillio, G.W. 165 [TR: In the interview, G.W. Pattillo] Pope, Alec 171 Price, Annie 178 Pye, Charlie 185
Raines, Charlotte 189 Randolph, Fanny 194 Richards, Shade 200 Roberts, Dora 206 Rogers, Ferebe 209 Rogers, Henry 217 Rush, Julia 229
Settles, Nancy 232 Sheets, Will 236 Shepherd, Robert 245 Singleton, Tom 264 Smith, Charles 274 [TR: In the interview, Charlie Tye Smith] Smith, Georgia 278 Smith, Mary 285 Smith, Melvin 288 Smith, Nancy 295 Smith, Nellie 304 Smith, Paul 320 Stepney, Emeline 339 Styles, Amanda 343

Transcriber's Notes:
[TR: The interview headers presented here contain all information included in the original, but may have been rearranged for readability. Also, some ages and addresses have been drawn from blocks of information on subsequent interview pages. Names in brackets were drawn from text of interviews.]
[TR: Some interviews were date-stamped; these dates have been added to interview headers in brackets. Where part of date could not be determined -- has been substituted. These dates do not appear to represent actual interview dates, rather dates completed interviews were received or perhaps transcription dates.]

[HW: Dist 5 Ex-Slave #63]
Whitley, 1-22-36 Driskell
EX SLAVE JENNIE KENDRICKS [Date Stamp: MAY 8 1937]
Jennie Kendricks, the oldest of 7 children, was born in Sheram, Georgia in 1855. Her parents were Martha and Henry Bell. She says that the first thing she remembers is being whipped by her mother.
Jennie Kendricks' grandmother and her ten children lived on this plantation. The grandmother had been brought to Georgia from Virginia: "She used to tell me how the slave dealers brought her and a group of other children along much the same as they would a herd of cattle," said the ex-slave, "when they reached a town all of them had to dance through the streets and act lively so that the chances for selling them would be greater".
When asked to tell about Mr. Moore, her owner, and his family Jennie Kendricks stated that although her master owned and operated a large plantation, he was not considered a wealthy man. He owned only two other slaves besides her immediate family and these were men.
"In Mr. Moores family were his mother, his wife, and six children (four boys and two girls). This family lived very comfortably in a two storied weatherboard house. With the exception of our grandmother who cooked for the owner's family and slaves, and assisted her mistress with housework all the slaves worked in the fields where they cultivated cotton and the corn, as well as the other produce grown there. Every morning at sunrise they had to get up and go to the fields where they worked until it was too dark to see. At noon each day they were permitted to come to the kitchen, located just a short distance in the rear of the master's house, where they were served dinner. During the course of the day's work the women shared all the men's work except plowing. All of them picked cotton when it