SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

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Brberviewer Samuel S* Taylor
Person interviewed Ctoelia Thomas
&1S W* Mlntii Street, Litttte Rock* Arkajisas - "
Age About 70
Oooupation Making cotton and corn
"I was born in Louisiana—in Vidalia* Ify* mother's name was Bmna Grant*
yp father 1 s name was George Grant* 1^ mother 1 s name before she married was
Emma Woodbridge* I don't know the names of ay grand folks* I heard r^
mother say that my grandmother was named Matilda Woodbridge* I never got to
see her* That is what I heard my mother say*
n I don't kaow the names of ugr mother's master, and I don't know the
names of ny ffether* s white folks*
"% father was George Grant* He served in the War* I think they said
that he was with them when Vioksburg surrendered* Ity father has said that
he was really named George LeGrande* But after he enlisted in the War, he
Tjent by the name of George Grant* There was one of the officers by that
name, and he took it too* He was shot in the hip during the War* Whan he
died, he still was having trouble with that wound* He was on the Union side*
He was fighting for our freedom* He wasn't no Reb* He'd tell us a many a
day, 'I am part of the cause that you are free*' I don't know where he was
vrhen he enlisted* He said he was sold out from Louisville—him and his
brother*
"I never did hear him say that he was whipped or treated bad when he
TO&S a slave* I've heard him tell how he had to stand up cm dead people to
shoot when he was in the War*
"2$- brother started twice to get my father's pension, but he never
vfas able to do anything about it* They made away with the papers somehow