wow check these dudes out. i like the guy on the bottomold slaves tell it their way

Awesome link. Thanks.


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home page

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/index.html

i have listened to three so far.

Amazing!  

Thanks for the link.  

That is just amazing stuff.

Cool until I got to the guy who was 134

Quoted: Cool until I got to the guy who was 134

Apparently he really was!

I met two slaves in my younger days.

One of them was said to be 114 in 1970. He remembered slavery and became friends with my Grandfather in his later days. The other was 100ish in 1968, I dont know the connection, but I met her through my Grandmother, she was only born in slavery and came north right after the war, she didnt remember anything.

I had a lot more exposure to older people like my cousin John, born just before the turn of the century who loves telling stories of days long gone, and a friend of my Grandfathers, who would tell stories passed on from his parents. The slave catchers coming north of the Ohio river is the one that he tells I remember most.