Abe Whitess

ne Stewart 356 George Strickland 359 Daniel Taylor 367 Ellen Thomas 376 Alonza Fantroy Toombs 383 William Henry Towns 385 Stepney Underwood 394 Simon Walker 404 Cindy Washington 407 Abe Whitess 423 George Young 432 ^ \ Week ending Aug.6, X9$7* S-260 v \ S-200 1. M**? A. Poole, j[i Identification 1 N0.OI49-4366 Federal Writers Project,Dist.2. WPA Project 3609, Mobile, Ala. CHARLH AARONS, EX-SLATE, SATS HE LOVED YOUNG MAESTER JOHff. (Written by Mary A. Poole.) Some friends driving to Oak Grove, Ala., gave the writer the opportunity on August 4"&h to interview an old ex-slave, Charlie Aarons, who is quite venerable in appearance, and who, when asked his age, replied: "Madam I dont know but I sure been 'round here long time", and when asked how old he was at the time of the Surrender he answered: "I was a man able to do a man's work so I 'spects I was eighteen or twenty years old." Uncle Charlie as he is known among his own color and the mhite people who knows him, told the writer he was born at Petersburg 7a., and his parents, Aaron and Louisa, were owned by a Mr. J.H.White, who had a store in the city, but no plantation. His parents had three children, two boys and one girl, and when Uncle Charlie was about ten years of age, he waa sold by Mr. White to a speculator named Jones who brought him to Mobile. He recalled being placed on the block, at the slave mart on Royal and State streets, and the anxiety of hearing the different people bidding for him, and being finally sold to a Mr. Jason Harris, who lived near Newton Station in Jasper County, Miss. Uncle Charlie never saw or heard of his parents or brother and sister again and never knew what became of them. Uncle Charlie said Mr. Harris was a pretty rough master, and somewhat close. All rations were weigied out and…