"Ex Slave Tales," DeKalb County.
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@ Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
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Folder contains 27 pages of former slave narratives compiled for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late 1930s. Y. Fowler, 0 Fort Payne, labama De Kalb Cour. ty CL~SSI rtn/'''; . I_ an' his plantation w' s in Lowndes oountY,between Mac's Switch ,an , },loll'gans ville. They had two little girls,Nellie an' Maggie-Kaggie was ths younges' an' her an I ~~s about ths same age.1 was the only light nigger in the fam ilY,en ' I was brou~ht up in the house with the chillen. I slep' with 'em, lived with 'em- iWice every week I went to my Kammy's cabin,Dn took a bath an' I had my own sof' shoes,an' my own night-gown an jackst,an' lived, an slep' an' played with my Yassa's chillun- Every mornin' before breakfas' it was my place to sweep the long back porch,~a+ reached clear across the back of the house,an' sweep roun' jn the yard,an then I cleaned up,an' put on a clean dress,an' played the res' of the day with the chillun-'ceptin ever' other day I churned. We pla yed hop-scotch,an' ring-a roun'-+'hs-posy,an' played house, an'lotsa things I can't remember now-1 must'a been about seven years old then- I j'u" can't tell au much about my brothers and sisters-In dem days "ve:r;'1 white family wha~ have servants, givs each chile that got mahried a pussonel servantTan' I never saw my oldss' sister- shs was give away befo' the family lef' Virginia.I remember sist' Celie,an' sist' Harriet,an' sist Li za - she...
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