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20140260-69
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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 Leithean Spinks. Leithean Spinks was born in 1855 on Fay Thompson's plantation in Rankin County, Mississippi. Spinks recalls being told that Thompson moved operations to E. Feleciana Parish in Louisiana when they were two years old. Spinks describes the living conditions of the plantation and the operations there. Spinks recalls an incident where Spinks and their siblings almost died from their cabin burning down. Spinks also describes punishment by Thompson and describes their marriages.
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1937-10-01
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Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. Fort Worth City Guide Draft and Records.
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AR316-4-8
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