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Portrait of Andrew Goodman, formerly enslaved, Andrew Goodman, ex-slave, Dallas
Andrew Goodman, ex-slave, DallasAndrew Goodman, ex-slave, DallasAndrew Goodman, Age 97
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Texas
Age when photographed
97
Biography · formerly enslaved

Andrew Goodman

A biography drawn from Andrew's own account is being prepared. Their own words are below.

a Edwards 5 Ann J. Edwards 10 Mary Kincheon Edwards 15 John Ellis 21 Lorenza Ezell ,. 25 Betty Farrow 33 Sarah Ford 41 Louis Fowler 50 Orelia Alexie Franks 60 Priscilla Gibson 66 Andrew Goodman 74 Austin Grant 81 James Green 87 0. W Green and Granddaughter 90 William Green, (Rev. Bill) 96 Pauline Grice 98 Mandy Hadnot 102 William Hamilton 106 Felix Haywood 130 Phoebe Henderson 135 Albert Hill 137 Eliza Holman 148 Bill Homer 153 Scott Hooper 157 Facing page Alice Houston 159 Moses Hursey 169 Charley Hurt 172 Wash Ingram 177 Carter J. Jackson 180 James Jackson 182 Martin Jackson 187 Richard Jackson 195 John James 198 Gus Johnson 208 James D. Johnson 216 Mary Ellen Johnson 223 Pauline Johnson and Felice Boudreaux 225 Spence Johnson 228 Harriet Jones 251 Harriet Jones with Daughter and Granddaughter 231 Lewis Jones 237 Lizzie Jones 246 Sam Kilgore 255 Ben Kinchlow 260 Mary Kindred 285 420*385 Si-SUlVE ST0SI2S (fexas) Page One > flLUS EASTER, 35, was bora near Nacog&oches, Texas, He does not know the name of his first master, Frank Sparks brou^it Willis to Bosqueville, Texas, when he was two years old. Willis believes firmly in Hconjure^ient, and ghosts, and wears several charms for protection against the former. He lives in Waco, Texas, "1*8 birthed below Nacogdoches, and dey tells me it am on March 19th, in 1852. My mammy had some kind of pgper what say dat. But I donft know my master, Marse Frank Sparks f cause when I*s two he done give me to and he brung me to Bosqueville, Dat sizeable place My maamy come fbout a month after, 'cause Marse Prank, he s y dem days. I1 s too much trouble without my mammy. tt Mammy de bes1 cook in de county and a master hand at spinninr and weaving She made her own dye* Walnut and elm makes red dye and walnut brown color, and shumake makes…

From the Federal Writers' Project slave narratives, 1936–1938. The interviewers wrote down their words in the 1930s, often in dialect spellings that reflect the interviewer more than the speaker.

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