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20140089-97
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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 Mandy Green. Green was born into slavery in the late 1820s on a Troup County, Georgia plantation belonging to Leon Maddox. Green describes moving to Shreveport, Louisiana in her early life and discusses building a plantation from scratch. From a young age, she worked in the field at the plantation, and describes the brutal nature of that work and the treatment by Maddox and the overseers at the plantation. She describes whippings in great detail, including the methods used and the scenarios that enslaved people would be punished for on the Maddox plantation. She also discusses food rationing, attending church, learning about Emancipation, and stealing extra food to survive.
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Undated
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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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