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20140270-78
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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 Jannie Wilson. Jannie Wilson was born on December 25th, 1937 on Arthur Carroll's Plantation in Alabama, when she was still an infant, Carroll moved his operations to Arkansas. Arthur Carroll was a slave trader, Wilson describes how the slaves that were for trading lived in separate quarters from the rest of the others on the plantation. Wilson describes life on the plantation, working as a caretaker for the children. Wilson also describes what it was like during the Civil War, how Carroll took everyone to Texas and when he couldn't find buyers, he left them in Texas. Wilson recalls wandering for days until finding some work as a nursing maid.
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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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