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20140104-10
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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 James Hayes. James Hayes was born on December 28th, 1835 in Shelby County, Texas. Hayes remembers his mother being sold when he was five and that John Henderson buying the farm he was living on. The bulk of Hayes interview is his life living on the Henderson Farm and growing up there following by being taken to his mother, then living in Johnson Station, and his married life after being freed.
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Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. Fort Worth City Guide Draft and Records.
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AR316-4-7
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