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20140289-95
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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 Louis Young. Young was born in 1849 to Hampton Atkinson, in Phillips County, Arkansas. Young describes life and his day-to-day working on Atkinson's plantation. The treatment there and even how he and his mother was sold to Tom Young, who then traveled with them to Robinson County, Texas. Young recalls reaching Texas in 1861, life there and what jobs he had after emancipation. Young also describes briefly implications of the Klu Klux Klan.
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1937-09-30
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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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