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20140075-79
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A transcript of an Ex-Slave Narrative interview conducted by Sheldon F. Gauthier for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s with Betty Farrow. Farrow was born into slavery in 1847 on the Patrick County, Virginia farm of Alex Clark. She describes working in the house while enslaved, as well as moving to Sherman, Texas in a covered wagon train roughly three years prior to the Civil War. She also describes Alex Clark's murder as the result of a dispute with the neighboring farmer, and not being told about Emancipation at the conclusion of the Civil War.
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Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. Fort Worth City Guide Draft and Records.
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AR316-4-6
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