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"Ex Slave Tales," Baldwin County.

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@ Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

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Folder contains 22 pages of former slave narratives compiled for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late 1930s. In the s , ,(; Fairhope, "­Daphne L.E.Curtis',_- Ill! ORPHAN SHAW...qw, j . [/ I pick every lock of it myself - jes' me and dem l1ttle chillllns. " Den Ru1"us {l: come along and be. tkught us had all de insho' enoe money, and he court me so hard and so reg'lar~I act a fool and married • him,aoo he turn out to be de no-countest nigger dat ever lived. 'Stead of him supporting me, us had to support him for nigh 'bout ten year;me and de chillun. He had a misery in he back,snd couldn't do no hard work laic plow-ing aoo hoe~ .i..t.. hurt he back to pick cotton and pull fodder,and he jes' set 'round and make a few baskets and eat laic a hoss. " Mr.Will1s Biles(C died)Snd he boy,Mr. Joe, he took de place and run it for he,la. Mr. Joe told Ruf'u& 'Ten't nothing de matter wid him but. dame lazy,and if he don't git out and he'p me work,he gonns set. de Ku Klux on him. Den us got scared sno moved nigh 'bout t.o Uniontown,and us l1ve wid llr. Bob Simmons for seben years fall 'bout de settlement. Mr. mniDg, and he treat. us right every ~ say 't.ain't. nothing de mat.ter wid Rufus jes' laic llr. Joe say,and Rufus say he gwine move to town whar he kin git. work to...
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96 Dpi Tiff
Created Date:
1937 1939 Circa
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Alabama Writers' Project Collection

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Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130