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Title: Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves
Maryland Narratives

Author: Work Projects Administration

Release Date: March 12, 2004 [EBook #11552]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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SLAVE NARRATIVES

A Folk History of Slavery in the United States
From Interviews with Former Slaves

TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY
THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT
1936-1938
ASSEMBLED BY
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT
WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

WASHINGTON 1941

VOLUME VIII

MARYLAND NARRATIVES

Prepared by
the Federal Writers' Project of
the Works Progress Administration
for the State of Maryland

INFORMANTS

Brooks, Lucy [TR: and Lafayette Brooks]

Coles, Charles

Deane, James V.

Fayman, Mrs. M.S.
Foote, Thomas

Gassaway, Menellis

Hammond, Caroline
Harris, Page
Henson, Annie Young

Jackson, Rev. Silas
James, James Calhart
James, Mary Moriah Anne Susanna
Johnson, Phillip
Jones, George

Lewis, Alice
Lewis, Perry

Macks, Richard

Randall, Tom

Simms, Dennis

Taylor, Jim

Wiggins, James
Williams, Rezin (Parson)

[TR: Interviews were stamped at left side with state name, date, and
interviewer's name. These stamps were often partially cut off. Where
month could not be determined [--] substituted. Interviewers' names
reconstructed from other, complete entries.]

Maryland
[--]-23-37
Guthrie

AUNT LUCY [HW: BROOKS].
References: Interview with Aunt Lucy and her son, Lafayette Brooks.

Aunt Lucy, an ex-slave, lives with her son, Lafayette Brooks, in a shack
on the Carroll Inn Springs property at Forest Gl