Person Interviewed: Annie Gail
Location: Dade County, Florida
Annie Gail, 1661 NW 6th Court, Miami, Florida, was four years old when “peace came.”
“I was borned on Faggott’s place near Greenville, Alabama. My mother, she worked for Faggott. He wuz her bossman. When she’d go out to de fiel’s, I ‘member I used to watch her, for somehow I wuz feared she would get away from me.
“Now I ‘member dat jes ez good as ’twas yesterday. I didn’t do anything. I just runned ’round.
“We just ‘stayed on’ after de’ ‘Mancipation’. My mother, she was hired then. I guess I wuzn’t ‘fraid ob her leavin’ after dat.”