5.  What clothing did you wear in hot weather?  Cold weather?  On Sundays?  Any shoes?  Describe your wedding clothes.

6.  Tell about your master, mistress, their children, the house they lived in, the overseer or driver, poor white neighbors.

7.  How many acres in the plantation?  How many slaves on it?  How and at what time did the overseer wake up the slaves?  Did they work hard and late at night?  How and for what causes were the slaves punished?  Tell what you saw.  Tell some of the stories you heard.

8.  Was there a jail for slaves?  Did you ever see any slaves sold or auctioned off?  How did groups of slaves travel?  Did you ever see slaves in chains?

9.  Did the white folks help you to learn to read and write?

10.  Did the slaves have a church on your plantation?  Did they read the Bible?  Who was your favorite preacher?  Your favorite spirituals?  Tell about the baptizing; baptizing songs.  Funerals and funeral songs.

11.  Did the slaves ever run away to the North?  Why?  What did you hear about patrollers?  How did slaves carry news from one plantation to another?  Did you hear of trouble between the blacks and whites?

12.  What did the slaves do when they went to their quarters after the day’s work was done on the plantation?  Did they work on Saturday afternoons?  What did they do Saturday nights?  Sundays?  Christmas morning?  New Year’s Day?  Any other holidays?  Cornshucking?  Cotton Picking?  Dances?  When some of the white master’s family married or died?  A wedding or death among the slaves?

13.  What games did you play as a child?  Can you give the words or sing any of the play songs or ring games of the children?  Riddles?  Charms?  Stories about “Raw Head and Bloody Bones” or other “hants” of ghosts?  Stories about animals?  What do you think of voodoo?  Can you give the words or sing any lullabies?  Work songs?  Plantation hollers?  Can you tell a funny story you have heard or something funny that happened to you?  Tell about the ghosts you have seen.

14.  When slaves became sick who looked after them?  What medicines did tho doctors give them?  What medicine (herbs, leaves, or roots) did the slaves use for sickness?  What charms did they wear and to keep off what diseases?

15.  What do you remember about the war that brought your freedom?  What happened on the day news came that you were free?  What did your master say and do?  When the Yankees came what did they do and say?

16.  Tell what work you did and how you lived the first year after the war and what you saw or heard about the KuKlux Klan and the Nightriders.  Any school then for Negroes?  Any land?

17.  Whom did you marry?  Describe the wedding.  How many children and grandchildren have you and what are they doing?

18.  What do you think of Abraham Lincoln?  Jefferson Davis?  Booker Washington?  Any other prominent white man or Negro you have known or heard of?