Title: Interview with Fountain Hughes, Baltimore, Maryland, June 11, 1949
Description
- Approximately 4 million slaves were freed at the conclusion of the American Civil War. The stories of a few thousand have been passed on to future generations through word of mouth, diaries, letters, records, or written transcripts of interviews. Only 26 audio-recorded interviews of ex-slaves have been found, 23 of which are in the collections of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. In this interview, 101-year-old Fountain Hughes recalls his boyhood as a slave, the Civil War, and life in the United States as an African American from the 1860s to the 1940s. About slavery, he tells the interviewer: "You wasn't no more than a dog to some of them in them days. You wasn't treated as good as they treat dogs now. But still I didn't like to talk about it. Because it makes, makes people feel bad you know. Uh, I, I could say a whole lot I don't like to say. And I won't say a whole lot more."
Interviewee
Interviewer
Date Created
- June 11, 1949
Publication Information
- Hermond Norwood, Baltimore, Maryland
Language
Place
- North America > United States of America > Maryland > Baltimore
- North America > United States of America > Virginia > Charlottesville
Time
Topic
- Social sciences > Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > Culture & institutions
- History & geography > History of North America > United States
Additional Subjects
- African American families--Southern States ; African Americans--Religion ; Credit--Management ; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 ; Slavery ; Slaves--Emancipation--Southern States ; Slaves--Social life and customs ; Slaves--Southern States--Songs and music ; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Type of Item
Physical Description
- 10 inch reel, 78 revolutions per minute
Collection
Institution
External Resource
Last Updated: May 7, 2009