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Dennis J Yancey
Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
February 3, 2021 edited July 10, 2024 in General Questions

SLAVE NARRATIVES

We are currently collecting numerous AMERICAN Slave Narratives into FamilySearch Memories as well as former slave obituraries and other rleated items.

 

You can see the collection here:

https://www.familysearch.org/photos/gallery/album/788138

 

If any of you are interested in helping us PERSON TAG these items - please feel free to do so - and or contact me with any questions.

 

Thanks

 

some examples"

 

AUDIO Interview of Fountain Hughes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E6PZV8izj4

 

Louis Hughes - Thirty Years a Slave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK7peHpvxkM

 

Martin Jackson Texas Cowboy OBituary

https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/109438049?cid=mem_copy

 

Rosa Green from Louisiana

https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/109773632?cid=mem_copy

 

 

If any of you have items you wish to submit to the collection - please let us know.

 

@United States Genealogy Research​ 

@Southern States Family History Research​ 

@African American Genealogy Research​ 

@Family History Research​ 

 

@Roger Allen Bell​ 

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  • marygrether
    marygrether ✭✭
    February 7, 2021

    I also would like to find outg how to find people that werte slaves in my family tree. and yes I'd like to help

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 7, 2021

    tell me more about your family . . .

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  • Wanda Clancy
    Wanda Clancy ✭
    February 7, 2021

    My great grandfather is in the slave narratives. His name was Peter Clifton from Winnsboro, SC. I do have a photo of him that I can share.

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