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20140159-63
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A transcript of an Ex-Slave Narrative interview conducted by Joe W. Colbert for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers Project in the 1930s with Henry McKinsey. Henry McKinsey was born on June 19th, year unknown on the Kensery farm in Richmond, Virginia. Henry describes his life growing up on the farm with his family and siblings, details how the Kensery's took care of them and moving to Houston, Texas eleven years after the war and then moving to Fort Worth in the early 1930s.
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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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