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Slave Narrative of Joanna Draper

Leave a Comment / Black Genealogy, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia / 12 minutes of reading

Last Updated on August 24, 2012 by Person Interviewed: Joanna Draper Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma Place of Birth: Hazelhurst Mississippi Age: 83 Most folks can’t remember many things happened to ’em when they only eight years old, but one of my biggest tribulations come about dat time and I never will forget it! That was when […]

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Slave Narrative of Lucretia Alexander

Leave a Comment / Arkansas, Black Genealogy, Mississippi, Native American, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia / 12 minutes of reading

Last Updated on June 20, 2012 by Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person Interviewed: Lucretia Alexander Location: 1708 High Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 89 Occupation: Washed. Ironed. Plowed. Hoed “I been married three times and my last name was Lucretia Alexander. I was twelve years old when the War began. My mother died at seventy-three

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