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20140098-103
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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 William Hamilton. Hamilton was born in about 1860 on the Missouri plantation of William Hamilton. Near the end of the Civil War, Hamilton (then a young child) was left with Alex Buford in Tarrant County, Texas, who agreed to watch over him until William Hamilton, a slave trader, returned for him. The bulk of Hamilton's interview pertains to stories about the Ku Klux Klan's methods and reign of terror over emancipated African Americans in Tarrant County.
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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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