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in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, by Work Projects Administration

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Title: Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Texas Narratives, Part 1

Author: Work Projects Administration

Release Date: December 2, 2009 [EBook #30576]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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| Transcriber's Note: |
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| I. Inconsistent punctuation has been silently corrected |
| throughout the book. |
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| II. Clear spelling mistakes have been corrected however, |
| inconsistent language usage (such as 'day' and 'dey') |
| has been maintained. A list of corrections is included |
| at the end of the book. |
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| III. The numbers at the start of each interview were stamped |
| into the original work and refer to the number of the |
| published interview in the context of the entire Slave |
| Narratives project. |
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| IV. Two handwritten notes have been retained and are |
| annotated as such. |
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SLAVE NARRATIVES

_A Folk History o