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Manuscript/Mixed Material Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 1, Abbott-Byrd

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Title

  • Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 1, Abbott-Byrd

Created / Published

  • November-December 1938

Headings

  • -  United States -- Arkansas
  • -  Interviews

Genre

  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Includes narratives by Dina Beard, Aunt Adeline, John W. H. Barnett, Josephine Ann Barnett, Lizzie Barnett, Silas Abbott, Lucian Abernathy, Laura Abromson, Spencer Barnett, Emma Barr, Robert Barr, Mose Banks, Emmett Beal, William Baltimore, Annie Beck, J.H. Beckwith, Enoch Beel, Sophie D. Belle, Cyrus Bellus, Bob Benford, Carrie Bradley Logan Bennet, George Benson, Kato Benton, James Bertrand, Alice Biggs, Matilda Bass, R.B. Anderson, Rose Adway, Liddie Aiken, Mattie Aldridge, Amsy O. Alexander, Diana Alexander, Fannie Alexander, Lucretia Alexander, Ed Allen, Lucindy Allison, Josephine Ames, Henry Banner, Nancy Anderson, Beatrice Black, Sarah Anderson, Selie Anderson, W.A. Anderson, Henry Anthony, Katie Arbery, Campbell Armstrong, Cora Armstrong, Lillie Baccus, Joseph Samuel Badgett, Jeff Bailey, James Baker, Charles Anderson, Maggie Broyles, F.H. Brown, George Brown, J.N. Brown, Lewis Brown, Lewis Brown, Mag Brown, Mary Brown, Mattie Brown, Molly Brown, Peter Brown, Mandy Billings, William Brown, Waters Brooks, Ida Bryant, Belle Buntin, Jeff Burgess, Norman Burkes, Will Burks, Sr., Adeline Burris, Jennie Butler, E.L. Byrd, Emmett Augusta Byrd, Casper Rumple, Lewis Brown, William Brown, Mal Boyd, Lewis Brown, Boston Blackwell, Henry Blake, Adeline Blakeley, Vera Roy Bobo, Liddie Boechus, Maggie (Bunny) Bond, Caroline Bonds, Rev. Frank T. Boone, J.F. Boone, Jonas Boone, Elcie Brown, Jack Boyd, Casie Jones Brown, George Braddox, George Braddox, Edward Bradley, Rachel Bradley, Elizabeth Brannon, Mack Brantley, Ellen Brass, Alice Bratton, Frank Briles, Mary Ann Brooks, Jane Birch, John Bowdry.
  • -  Interviews were conducted by Beaulah Sherwood Hagg, Bernice Bowden, Irene Robertson, Mary D. Hudgins, Miss Sallie C. Miller, Mrs. Annie L. LaCotts, Mrs. Bernice Bowden, Mrs. Rosa B. Ingram, Mrs. Zillah Cross Peel, Pernella M. Anderson, R. S. Taylor, Samuel S. Taylor, Thomas Elmore Lucy, Velma Sample, and Watt McKinney.
  • -  Interviews were conducted in Biscoe, Brinkley, Clarendon, Clarksville, Conway, De Valls Bluff, Des Arc, Dewitt, El Dorado, Fayetteville, Fordville, Forrest City, Hazen, Helena, Holly Grove, Hot Springs, Little Rock, Madison, Marianna, Marvell, North Little Rock, Paragould, Pine Bluff, Pine City, Russellville, St. Charles, West Memphis and Wheatley, Arkansas.

Medium

  • 356 pages

Source Collection

  • Federal Writer's Project, United States Work Projects Administration (USWPA)

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

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Chicago citation style:

Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 1, Abbott-Byrd. November-December, 1936. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mesn021/.

APA citation style:

(1936) Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 1, Abbott-Byrd. November-December. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mesn021/.

MLA citation style:

Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 1, Abbott-Byrd. November-December, 1936. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mesn021/>.