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

Author: Work Projects Administration

Release Date: October 2, 2004 [EBook #13579]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Old Slave, Peter Dunn]

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

Illustrated with Photographs

WASHINGTON 1941

VOLUME V

INDIANA NARRATIVES

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

INFORMANTS

Arnold, George W. [TR: with Professor W.S. Best and Samuel Bell]
Ash, Thomas, and Crane, Mary

Barber, Rosa
Blakeley, Mittie
Boone, Carl
Bowman, Julia
Boyce, Angie
Boysaw, Edna
Bracey, Callie [TR: daughter of Louise Terrell]
Buckner, Dr. George Washington
Burns, George Taylor
Butler, Belle [TR: daughter of Chaney Mayer]

Carter, Joseph William
Cave, Ellen
Cheatam, Harriet
Childress, James
Colbert, Sarah
Cooper, Frank [TR: son of Mandy Cooper]

Edmunds, Rev. H.H.
Eubanks, John [TR: and family]

Fields, John W.
Fortman, George [TR: and other interested citizens]

Gibson, John Henry
Guwn, Betty [TR: reported by Mrs. Hattie Cash, daughter]

Hockaday, Mrs.
Howard, Robert
Hume, Matthew

Jackson, Henrietta
Johnson, Lizzie
Jones, Betty
Jones, Nathan

Lennox, Adeline Rose
Lewis, Thomas
Locke, Sarah H. [TR: d