Stepney Underwood; from the Library of Congress Collection |
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Born in 1912
Interview Place: Madisonville, TX
Interview Date: 1979
Interviewer: Jeutonne P. Brewer
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About the Project
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JHF:She was somewhere, let's see, this was forty-one, and I— she was somewhere in, I think in her nineties. I did have that down, uh, I wrote it down, there was some dispute over whether she was ninety-one or ninety-two, or something of that kind. But this meant that by the time she, uh, you know, she was an adolescent when she was freed from serv— slavery. She remembered that. |
Gaston,
Alice (AL) | Hughes,
Fountain (MD) | McCrea,
Billy (TX) | McDonald,
Joe (AL) | Moseley,
Isom (AL) | Smalley,
Laura (TX), beating | Smalley,
Laura(TX), child care
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Harriet (TX) |
Faulk, John Henry (interviewer) | Epilogue |
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