96

Pauline Grice 98

Mandy Hadnot 102

William Hamilton 106

Felix Haywood 130

Phoebe Henderson 135

Albert Hill 137

Eliza Holman 148

Bill Homer 153

Scott Hooper 157

Alice Houston 159

Moses Hursey 169

Charley Hurt 172

Wash Ingram 177

Carter J. Jackson 180

James Jackson 182

Martin Jackson 187

Richard Jackson 195

John James 198

Gus Johnson 208

James D. Johnson 216

Mary Ellen Johnson 223

Pauline Johnson and Felice Boudreaux 225

Spence Johnson 228

Harriet Jones 231

Harriet Jones
with Daughter and Granddaughter 231

Lewis Jones 237

Lizzie Jones 246

Sam Kilgore 255

Ben Kinchlow 260

Mary Kindred 285

EX-SLAVE STORIES

(Texas)

420285

WILLIS EASTER, 85, was born near Nacogdoches, Texas. He does not
know the name of his first master. Frank Sparks brought Willis to
Bosqueville, Texas, when he was two years old. Willis believes
firmly in "conjuremen" and ghosts, and wears several charms for
protection against the former. He lives in Waco, Texas.

"I's birthed below Nacogdoches, and dey tells me it am on March 19th, in
1852. My mammy had some kind of paper what say dat. But I don't know my
master, 'cause when I's two he done give me to Marse Frank Sparks and he
brung me to Bosqueville. Dat sizeable place dem days. My mammy come
'bout a month after, 'cause Marse Frank, he say I's too much trouble
without my mammy.

"Mammy de bes' cook in de county and a master hand at spinnin' and
weavin'. She made her own dye. Walnut and elm makes red dye and walnut
brown color, and shumake makes black color. When you wants yallow color,
git cedar moss out de brake.

"All de lint was picked by han