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 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).