The following content is intended to act as supplemental materials for the Arkansas State Archives' Slave narratives oral history lesson plan.
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Lewis Chase, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Lewis Chase, by Irene Robertson with the Work Projects Administration, about Chase's life as a slave.
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Lucretia Alexander, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Lucretia Alexander, by Work Projects Administration interviewer Samuel S. Taylor, about Lucretia's life as a slave.
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Mariah Sutton Clements, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Mariah Sutton Clements, by Irene Robertson with the Work Projects Administration, about Clements' life as a slave.
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Mary Flagg, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Mary Flagg, by Bernice Bowden with the Work Projects Administration, about Flagg's life as a slave.
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Mattie Fannen, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Mattie Fannen, by Irene Robertson with the Work Projects Administration, about Fannen's life as a slave.
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Millie Evans, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Millie Evans, by Carol Graham with the Work Projects Administration, about Evans' life as a slave.
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Molly Brown, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Molly Brown, by Irene Robertson with the Work Projects Administration, about Brown's life as a slave.
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Mrs. Lou Fergusson, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Mrs. Lou Fergusson, by Mary D. Hudgins with the Work Projects Administration, about Fergusson's life as a slave.
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Robert Farmer, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Robert Farmer, by Samuel S. Taylor with the Work Projects Administration, about Farmer's life as a slave.
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Sallie Crane, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Sallie Crane, by Samuel S. Taylor with the Work Projects Administration, about Crane's life as a slave.
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Silas Dothrum, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Silas Dothrum, by Samuel S. Taylor with the Work Projects Administration, about Dothrum's life as a slave.
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W.A. Anderson, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave W.A. Anderson, by Samuel S. Taylor with the Work Projects Administration, about Anderson's life as a slave.
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William Dunwoody, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave William Dunwoody, by Samuel S. Taylor with the Work Projects Administration, about Dunwoody's life as a slave.
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Zenia Culp, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Zenia Culp, by Carol Graham with the Work Projects Administration, about Culp's life as a slave.
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Fannie Tatum, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Fannie Tatum, by Parnella Anderson with the Work Projects Administration, about Tatum's life as a slave.
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Frank Fikes, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Frank Fikes, by Parnella Anderson with the Work Projects Administration, about Fike's life as a slave.
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Mose Banks, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Mose Banks, by Pernella M. Anderson with the Work Projects Administration, about Banks' life as a slave.
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Adeline Blakeley, ex-slave interview
Interview of ex-slave Adeline Blakeley, by Mary Hudgins with the Work Projects Administration, about Blakeley's life as a slave.
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Tom and Sarah Douglas, ex-slave interview #194
Interview of ex-slaves, Tom and Sarah Douglas, by Carol Graham with the Work Projects Administration, about the Douglases' lives as slaves.
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Tom and Sarah Douglas, ex-slave interview #205
Interview of ex-slaves, Tom and Sarah Douglas, by Mildred Thompson and Carol Graham with the Work Projects Administration, about the Douglases' lives as slave.
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1861 bill of sale for slave Sarah and child Ellis
This is a bill of sale for an African-American slave named Sarah and her child, Ellis, sold, by David Nicol of Hempstead County, Arkansas, to John W. Walker of Pulaski County, Arkansas.
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Samuel Lawrence bill of sale for Milly, slave
This is a bill of sale for the transaction in which Milly, a 22-year old African-American slave, was sold, by Samuel Lawrence to Samuel Evans of Franklin County, Arkansas, on May 2nd, 1860. A.M. Doran served as witness to the transaction.
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Isham Harrell bill of sale, 1857
This is a Bill of Sale between Joel Harrell of Washington County, Arkansas, and Isham Harrell, for Wesley, an eighteen-year-old slave sold on April 25, 1857.
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Sale of slaves from James Lawson's estate
This is a notice announcing the sale of seventeen slaves and children owned, by the estate of James Lawson of Little Rock, Arkansas, arranged and announced, by John C. Peay, administrator of the estate.
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1820s slave sale certification instructions
This document details instructions on certifying the sale of a slave named Harriet to Mr. Charles Ritchie from Mr. William Hickman, in Hempstead County, Arkansas Territory, circa 1820s.