FOLKLORE SUBJECTS
Name of Interviewer: S.S. Taylor
Subject: Slave memories--Birth, Mother, Father, Separation House
Subject: Slaves--Dwellings, Food, Clothes
Subject: Corn Shucking, Dances, Quiltings, Weddings among Slaves
Subject: Slaves--Fight with Master (junior); Slave uprisings
Subject: Confederate Army Negroes; Ex-slave Occupations
Story:--Information
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This information given by: Eliza Washington
Place of Residence: 1517 West Seventeenth
Little Rock, Arkansas
Occupation: Washing and Ironing (When able)
Age: About 77
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The first thing I remember was living with my mother about six miles
from Scott's Crossing in Arkansas, about the year 1866. I know it was
1866 because it was the year after the surrender, and we know the
surrender was in 1865. I know the dates after 1866. You don't know
nothin' when you don't know dates. If you get up in court and say
somethin', the lawyers ask you when it happened and then they ask you
where did it happen, and if you can't tell them, they say "Witness is
excused. You don't know nothin'."