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Slave Narrative of Laura Abromsom

Leave a Comment / Arkansas, Black Genealogy, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia / 4 minutes of reading

Interviewer: Miss Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Laura Abromson, R. F. D. Location: Holly Grove, Arkansas (receives mail at Clarendon, Arkansas) Age: 74 “My mama was named Eloise Rogers. She was born in Missouri. She was sold and brought to three or four miles from Brownsville, Tennessee. Alex Rogers bought her and my papa. She had […]

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Slave Narrative of Beatrice Black

Leave a Comment / Arkansas, Black Genealogy, Tennessee, Texas / 3 minutes of reading

Interviewer: Irene Robertson Person Interviewed: Beatrice Black Age: 48 Location: Biscoe, Arkansas Occupation: Store and “eating joint” “I was born below the city pump here in Biscoe. My husband is a twin and the youngest of thirteen children. His twin brother is living. They are fifty years old today (August 6, 1938). His mother lived

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