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20140145-51
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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 Lewis Jones. Lewis Jones was born in 1851 on Fred Tate's plantation, on the Colorado River in Fayette County. Jones describes growing up on the plantation and how his father was a "breeding nigger" due to having over 50 children by different women on the plantation. Jones describes how Fred Tate was nice but stern, giving out whippings when needed but also having parties for the slaves there. Jones recalls working as a coach driver for Fred Tate, and also being briefly married and having moved to Fort Worth to work for Armor & Co. until he was let go.
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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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