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From: Erin Amanda Bradford <>
Subject: [BARRINGER] slave narratives - Barringer
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 15:21:17 -0400

This is really interesting. I am writing a paper on the African
American family before and after the Civil War and ancestry.com
(http://www.ancestry.com) has a new database called slaves narratives.
I put in the key word Barringer and one came back that was an interview
of Rachel Fairley who's mother was a slave of Paul Barringer. It's
really interesting. Unfortunately, I can't paste it all in here because
it's copyright infringement, but here is a little tidbit that sounds
cool:

"My mother seen her master take off a big pot of money to bury. He
didn't know he'd been seen. She didn't know where he went, but she seen
the direction he took. Her master was Paul Barringer. That was on
McKeever Creek near Sardis. It was near the end of the war. I never
heard my mother say what became of the money, but I guess he got it back
after everything was over."

"My mother never would have been sold but the first bunch of slaves
Barringer bought ran away from him and went back to the places where
they come from. Lots of the old people wouldn't stay anywheres only at
their homes. They would go back if they were sold away. It took a long
time because they walked. When my mother and father were sold they had
to walk. It took them six weeks, --- from Charlottesville, North
Carolina to Sardis, Mississippi."

Just thought I'd pass that along:)

Erin Bradford


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