Transcriber's Notes
All footnotes use numbers for consistency, and are reindexed.
Contractions match original text and are inconsistent due to the variety of narrators and interviewers.
Page [5]: Retained "Progro Marshells" and "Provo Marshell" inconsistency.
Pages [425]-[427] and [431]-[433]: Retained inconsistent spellings for "Yelladay", "Yellady", and "Yellerday".
Handwritten edits to punctuation, nested quotation marks, and the following typos have been silently corrected:
Page [24]: Changed "wnated" to "wanted" (I wnated ter go wid him).
Page [35]: Changed "ha" to "he" (an' when ha azed dem who dey wus).
Page [45]: Changed "Ca8olina" to "Carolina" (de No'th Ca8olina line).
Page [67]: Changed "do" to "de" (set fire to do cotton).
Page [167]: Changed "creulty" to "cruelty" (stops creulty on plantation).
Page [170]: Changed "sn'" to "an'" (Jake, sn' he 'longed ter a family).
Page [249]: Changed "I8d" to "I'd" (I8d learn ah half uh chaptuh) and
(an I8d write stories about Christ).