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20140043-50
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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 Fred Brown. Brown was born into slavery on the plantation of John Brown in Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana in 1853. In his interview, he describes the various tasks he worked while enslaved, cabins, food, hunting, and leisure activities of the enslaved. He also explains that the plantation's location on the Mississippi River allowed other enslaved people to escape and hide out in river caves. He describes the methods used to try to catch runaway slaves, including bloodhounds and Patter Rollers (slave patrols). At the end of the Civil War, John Brown sent the people he enslaved with an overseer to Texas to try to avoid emancipation. Fred Brown describes that experience as well.
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Undated
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Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. Fort Worth City Guide Draft and Records.
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AR316-4-6
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