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Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 7, Kentucky, Bogie-Woods (with combined interviews of others)

Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 7, Kentucky, Bogie-Woods (with combined interviews of others)

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Includes narratives by Amelia Jones, Ann Gudgel, Annie B. Boyd, Annie Morgan, Anonymous Female, Belle Robinson, Bert Mayfield, Charlie Richmond, Compilation, Cora Torian, Dan Bogie, Easter Sudie Campbell, Edd Shirley, Elizabeth Alexander, Esther Hudespeth, George Dorsey, George Henderson, George Scruggs, Harriet Mason, Jenny McKee, Joana Owens, John Anderson, Kate Billingsby, Mandy Gibson, Martha J. Jones, Mary Wooldridge, Mary Wright, Mrs. Heyburn, Nannie Eaves, Peter Bruner, Rev. John R. Cox, Scott Mitchell, Sophia Word, Susan Dale Sanders, Uncle Dick, Wes Woods, Will Oats
Interviews were conducted by Byers York, Carl F. Hall, Cecelia Laswell, Cullen Jude, Edna Lane Carter, Eliza Ison, Evelyn McLemore, Gertrude Vogler, Gladys Robertson, Hazel Cinnamon, J. Dunbar, J.R. Wilkerson, John Forsee, John I. Sturgill, L. Cherry, Lenneth Jones, Mame Nunnelley, Mamie Hanberry, Mamie Hanbery, Margaret Bishop, Mary E. O'Malley, Mayme Nunnelley, Mildred Roberts, Nelle Shumate, Pearl House, Perry Larkey, R.L. Nesbitt, Robert Mullins, Ruby Garten, Ruby J. Girten, Stewart Carey, Sue Higgins, and Viola Bowling.
Interviews were conducted in Anderson County, Ballard County, Boyd County, Breathitt County, Caldwell County, Calloway County, Carrard County, Casey County, Catlettsburg, Christian County, Clark County, Davies County, Duncantown, Garrard County, Hopkins County, Hopkinsville, Knox County, Lancaster, Lawrence County, Leslie County, London, Louisville, Martin County, Mercer County, Montgomery County, North London, Owentown, Prestonsburg, Rockcastle County, Tompkinsville, Union County, Wayne County, and Webster County, Kentucky.

Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections.From Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

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1938
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Kentucky Central Junction
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Library of Congress
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