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Hector Godbold, living in the Slave Quarter

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Hector Godbold, living in the Slave Quarter

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We live in a one room house in the slave quarter there on the white folks plantation. My Gawd, sleep right there on the floor.

Hector Godbold, WPA Slave Narrative, 1937

1937

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Hector Godbold, living in the Slave Quarter

Africa & the Diaspora

Point of Pines Slave Cabin

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