BEHI-P012-R09
The Fraser interview and Davis memoir preserve accounts of work, boarders and financial activity.
These accounts do not quantify wages, rents, staffing, profit or ownership of every associated enterprise.
Sources and inspection limits
Isabel Fraser interview — Pleasant’s own voice (BEHI-P012-S09)
Transcript inspected. Pleasant describes work, earlier boarders, public reputation and her objection to the familiar racialized nickname. Newspaper framing and reported speech require attribution; recollections do not substitute for payrolls, deeds or account books. Original newspaper page remains an acquisition target. Historical title is retained only for source identification.
Sam Davis memoir — autobiographical claims (BEHI-P012-S10)
Published transcription inspected. The text presents Pleasant’s birth and family account, Davis’s account of financial distress and asserted banking activity. These are memoir claims, not inspected birth records, bank ledgers or a net-worth statement. An editor’s parenthetical gloss is not Pleasant’s original testimony. Locate the full original issue and separately trace papers entrusted to Davis.