| N.C. District: | No. 2 |
| Worker: | Mary A. Hicks |
| No. Words: | 326 |
| Subject: | Ex-slave recollections |
| Person Interviewed: | Emma Stone |
| Editor: | Daisy Bailey Waitt |
[TR: Date stamp: JUN 7 1937]
Ex-Slave Recollections
An interview with Emma Stone, 77 of Heck's-Town, Durham, Durham County. May 21, 1937.
"My mammy wuz a Free Issue an' my pappy belonged ter de Bells in Chatham County. Pappy wuz named Edmund Bell, mammy wuz named Polly Mitchel. My sisters wuz Fanny, Jane, Ann, Josephine, Narcissus, and Cressie. My brothers wuz Lizah, Hilliard an' another one, but I doan 'member his name.
"Yo' knows dat I doan 'member much, but I does know dat days on de plantation wuz happy. When my mammy married pappy she moved ter de Bell's plantation so we chilluns, long wid her, wuz lak de udder slaves.