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20140191-93
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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 Bell Nelson. Nelson was born in Peoria, Texas, four miles from Hillsboro on Henry Bell's farm. She describes living there with her mother until her farther joins them from another farm. She recalls what it was like growing up there, how they were treated well with plenty to eat and how only some of the others would get punishments from Henry Bell. She also describes the incident with Bell and her another farmer, and how her father moves them to Moser Valley, a Negro Settlement, there she meets her husband and they had fourteen children together.
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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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AR316-4-7
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