Stepney Underwood; from the Library of Congress Collection

Remembering Slavery:  Those Who Survived Tell Their Stories   And one more thing I want you to promise me:   that you's gonna tell all the children my story. --Papa Dallas Stewart Their Voices:  Audio clips are set to automatically begin; transcripts appear below.

 

Fountain Hughes	Born in 1848                                  Interview Place: Charlottesville, VA                                        Interview Date: 1944                                   Interviewer: Hermond Norwood
About the Project  Their Voices  Project Director  Consultants  Sources  Sponsors  Smithsonian Productions  Institute of  Language & Culture   The WPA and the    Archive of Folk Song   Links	My name is Fountain Hughes. I was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. My grandfather belong to Thomas Jefferson. My grandfather was a hundred and fifteen years ol' when he died. And now I am one hundred and, and one year old.   . . .  If I thought, had any idea, that I'd ever be a slave again, I'd take a gun an' jus' end it all right away. Because you're nothing but a dog. You're not a thing but a dog.
	Gaston, Alice (AL)   |   Hughes, Fountain (MD)   |   McCrea, Billy (TX)  | McDonald, Joe (AL)   |  Moseley, Isom (AL) | Smalley, Laura (TX), beating    | Smalley, Laura(TX), child care     |  Smith, Harriet (TX)  |   Faulk, John Henry (interviewer)   |  Epilogue

            

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