- Interviewed in
- Alabama
- Age when photographed
- 89
Biography · formerly enslaved
Ellen Thomas
A biography drawn from Ellen's own account is being prepared. Their own words are below.
306 Parker, Molly Patton, Lindy Phillips, Simon Pitts, Roxy Pollard, Carrie Poole, Irene Pugh, Nicey 309 311 312 316 318 320 323 Taylor, Cull Taylor, Daniel Taylor, George Tellis, Amanda Thomas, Ellen Thomas, Elizabeth Tillman, Mollie Toombs, Alonza Fantroy Towns, William Henry 363 367 370 374 376 380 381 383 385 Underwood, Stepney 394 Van Dyke, Charlie 397 Walker, Lilah Walker, Simon Washington, Cindy White, Eliza White, Mingo Whitess, Abe Williams, Callie Witherspoon, Silvia 401 404 407 411 413 423 425 429 Young, George 432 Reynolds, Sallie Rice, Mary Robinson, Cornelia Rogers, Gus (Jabbo) 326 329 331 334 Scott, Janie Shepherd, Maugan Sims, Allen Smith, Frank Smith, John Stanton, Annie 337 340 342 345 349 353 ILLUSTRATIONS Facing page A Slave Cabin in Barbour County near Eufaula Molly Amraond (Ammonds) Frontispiece 9 Charity Anderson 12 Gus Askew 15 Nathan Beauchamp 25 Oliver Bell 27 Ank Bishop 35 Siney Bonner 39 Jennie Bowen 42 Martha Bradley 46 Allen Brown 48 Gus Brown 49 Walter Calloway 51 Esther King Casey 55 Amy Chapman 58 Henry Cheatam 66 Laura Clark 72 Laura Clark's House 72 Wadley (Shorty) demons 78 William Colbert 81 Sara Colquitt 87 Emma Crockett 92 Emma Crockett1s House 92 Facing page Matilda Pugh Daniel 103 Carrie Davis 105 George Dillard HI Bert Frederick 126 Delia Garlic 129 Angie Garrett 133 Henry Garry 137 Jake Green 168 Charity Grigsby 171 Charity Grigsbyfs House 171 Lizzie Hill 176 Gabe Hines 178 Jane Holloway 188 Emma L. Howard 211 Everiett Ingram 215 Hannah Irwin 218 Martha Jackson 220 iiuxauum v vlivS 233 Abraham Jones' Back Yard 233 Abraham Jones' House 233 Lucindy Lawrence Jurdon 242 Tom McAlpin 268 Anne R'addox 272 Frank k'snef ee 278 Isaam Morgan 282 Facing page Hattie Anne Nettles 297 Rev* Wade Owens 306 Molly Parker 309 Lindy Patton 311…
From the Federal Writers' Project slave narratives, 1936–1938. The interviewers wrote down their words in the 1930s, often in dialect spellings that reflect the interviewer more than the speaker.