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Biography · formerly enslaved
Bert Frederick
A biography drawn from Bert's own account is being prepared. Their own words are below.
se 72 Wadley (Shorty) demons 78 William Colbert 81 Sara Colquitt 87 Emma Crockett 92 Emma Crockett1s House 92 Facing page Matilda Pugh Daniel 103 Carrie Davis 105 George Dillard HI Bert Frederick 126 Delia Garlic 129 Angie Garrett 133 Henry Garry 137 Jake Green 168 Charity Grigsby 171 Charity Grigsbyfs House 171 Lizzie Hill 176 Gabe Hines 178 Jane Holloway 188 Emma L. Howard 211 Everiett Ingram 215 Hannah Irwin 218 Martha Jackson 220 iiuxauum v vlivS 233 Abraham Jones' Back Yard 233 Abraham Jones' House 233 Lucindy Lawrence Jurdon 242 Tom McAlpin 268 Anne R'addox 272 Frank k'snef ee 278 Isaam Morgan 282 Facing page Hattie Anne Nettles 297 Rev* Wade Owens 306 Molly Parker 309 Lindy Patton 311 Simon Phillips 312 Carrie Pollard 318 Nicey Pugh 323 Mary Rice 329 Cornelia Robinson 331 Maugan Shepherd 340 Allen Sims 342 Frank Smith 345 Theodore Fontaine 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…
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.