Search Results Search Terms: YATES (11) Database: Slave Narratives Combined Matches: 11 Next Hits State: Arkansas Interviewee: Hatchett, Matilda "I think I'm between ninety-seven and ninety-eight years old. They had an old-age contest in Reverend Smith's time. They had Reverand Coffee and another man here since Reverend Smith. The pastor we have now is Yates. Our church is Lee Chapel A. M. K. Church. The contest was in 1935 I think and the people all agreed that I was the oldest colored woman in North Little Rock. They said I was ninety-six years old then. That would make me about ninety-eight years old now. But I saw my children afterwards and they said I was a year older. I used to have my age in the Family Bible and my husband's too, but it got burnt up. Accordin' to them I oughta be about ninety-nine or a hundred. Click to view full context ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- State: Arkansas Interviewee: Wright, Hannah Brooks Person interviswed Tom Yates, Marianna, Arkansas Click to view full context ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- State: Mississippi Interviewee: Davidson, Louisa John Nelson, owned by Alexander Yates. Click to view full context ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- State: Mississippi Interviewee: Revels, Hiram Rhoades Charles Summer [sic], 1811-1874; Matthew Hale Carpenter, 1824-1881; Henry Wilson, 1812-1875; Richard Yates, 1815-1875. Click to view full context ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- State: Mississippi Interviewee: Revels, Hiram Rhoades I when a member of [the] United States Senate, was on the senate committee on the District of Columbia, and we having prepared a bill for the establishing of the free school system in that District presented it to the senate for their consideration. The fifth clause of that bill provided that there should be no distinction in those schools on account of race[,] color[,] nor previous conditions of servitude. The Democratic members of the Senate made a motion that, that clause be stricken from the bill. This motion was opposed by Senators Sumner, Carpenter, Wilson and Revels[;] after my speech [February 8, 1871] Senator Yates and Ex Govenor [sic] of Illinois sent me these lines.18 Click to view full context ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- State: Mississippi Interviewee: Revels, Hiram Rhoades Richard Yates Click to view full context ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- State: North Carolina Interviewee: Taylor, R. S. "My name is Ransom Sidney Taylor. I was borned in slavery the 5th day of January, 1857. Adam Taylor was my father and Mary Taylor my mother. My brothers were: William H., Jesse, and Louis; sisters: Virginia, Annie, and Isabella; all born in slavery. We all belonged to John Cane. He owned a plantation on Ramkatte Road near Yates Mill, between Yates Mill and Penny's Mill. There was a whiskey still at Penny's Mill. Click to view full context ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- State: North Carolina Interviewee: Taylor, R. S. "There were sixty slaves in all, but Marster only kept seven on the plantation with him at Yates Mill. Marster's sister Mary was our missus after he died. He died before the surrender. The war was going on when he died. He was a Northern man. His sister came down to the funeral from New York and then went back, then she came back to settle up the estate. She stayed here a long time then. She told all the slaves they were free. That was about the close of the war. Click to view full context ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- State: North Carolina Interviewee: Taylor, R. S. Yates Mill was a flour mill. Click to view full context ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- State: North Carolina Interviewee: Taylor, R. S. "We got everything all right on the plantation near Yates Mill, then we moved to Raleigh. Search Results Search Terms: YATES (11) Database: Slave Narratives Combined Matches: 11 Previous Hits State: Texas Interviewee: Wilson, Robert "Ise never knows w'en freedom comes. Mother don't git any money an' nobody talks 'bout it 'round me. Ise jus' nacherly drifts mo' an' mo' to stayin' down town whar Ise could make some money. Mos'ly Ise wo'ks for Charley Yates big Gen'ral Store. He sells den what 7-8 stores sell now. Ise 'membahs de big hogsheads of flouah, 'lasses meat an' tudder things. Things don't come by de nickles an' dimes worth in dem days. Bright Star