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20140023-27
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A transcript of an Ex-Slave Owner narrative interview conducted by Woody Phipps for the Works Progress Administration's Deferral Writers' Project in the 1930s with O. A. Marsh. Marsh was born in 1860 on a plantation in Hazelhurst, Mississippi. On his birth, he inherited the plantation and 15 enslaved people from his recently deceased father. In the interview, Marsh describes the financial value of several enslaved people and discusses the Paddy Rollers or slave patrols that terrorized enslaved people during the antebellum and Civil War eras.
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Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. Fort Worth City Guide Draft and Records.
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AR316-4-5
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