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Portrait of Grave of Lewis Porter, formerly enslaved, Grave of Lewis Porter, a slave who died 1853 with tombstone erected by his master Major Porter; Fairview Cemetery, Eufaula, Alabama
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Biography · formerly enslaved

Grave of Lewis Porter

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

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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