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20140039-42
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A partial 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 an unknown formerly enslaved woman, perhaps with the surname Wilson. The first five pages of the interview were missing at the time of digitization. In the existing portion of the interview, the woman describes slave passes, slave patrols or Patter Rollers, forced marriages, and aspects of her work as a nurse on the plantation. She also describes her enslaver, Master Carroll, taking 100 enslaved people from Arkansas and abandoning them in Texas during the Civil War. She ends the interview by expressing gratitude to Abraham Lincoln for freeing slaves.
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Undated
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Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. Fort Worth City Guide Draft and Records.
Collection Number
AR316-4-6
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