Sample Questions

Unbiased Questions

Where and when were you born?
Give the names of your father and mother. Where did they come from?
Give names of your brothers and sisters.
How many acres in the plantation? How many slaves on it?
Tell about your life with them and describe your home and the “quarters.” Describe the beds and where you slept.
What did the slaves do when they went to their quarters after the day’s work was done on the plantation?
What did you eat and how was it cooked? Any possums? Rabbits? Fish? What food did you like best? Did the slaves have their own gardens?

Was the overseer “poor white trash”? What were some of his rules?
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?
Stories about “Raw Head and Bloody Bones” or other “hants” of ghosts? Stories about animals?
What do you think of voodoo? Tell about the ghosts you have seen.
Now that slavery is ended what do you think of it?
Tell why you joined a church and why you think all people should be religious.