Essays on Slave Communities
From Sunrise to Sunset: Beneath the Underground Interns' Essays on Slave Life in Maryland
Part of the internship program at the Maryland State Archives was structured towards original research on how ex-slaves depicted their lives in Maryland before they became free. The following series of essays are the result of the interns' study.
- Introduction
- Childhood in Slavery
- Interratial Connections
- Slave Community
- Slaves and Religion
- Work and Leisure
- Masculinity and Feminity
- Slavery, Resistance and Flight
The Slave Community (Notes)
by Adelsia Braxton
1. Lucy Brooks, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xlll), 2.
2. Ibid., 2.
3. Charles Coles, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xlll), 4.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. James Wiggins, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xiii), 66.
11. Ibid.
12. Phillip Johnson, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xiii), 42.
13. George Jones, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xiii), 44. Perry Lewis, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xiii), 49. Parson Williams, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xiii), 71.
14. Richard Macks, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xiii), 52.
15. Brooks, 2.
16. James V. Deane, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xiii), 8.
17. Macks, 56.
18. Wiggins, 67.
19. Ibid.
20. Brooks, 2.
21. Menellis Gassaway, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xiii), 17.
22. Ibid.
23. Tom Randall, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xiii), 57.
24. Ibid.
25. Wiggins, 66.
26. Deane, 6.
27. Johnson, 42.
28. Macks, 52.
29. Caroline Hammond, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xiii), 19.
30. Ibid., 20.
31. Dennis Simms, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xiii), 60.
32. Ibid., 62.
33. Page Harris, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xiii), 22.
34. Ibid., 24.
35. Macks, 52.
36. Ibid.
37. Jim Taylor, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xiii), 63.
38. Ibid.
39. Hammond, 21.
40. Harris, 24.
41. Williams, 75.
42. Ibid., 76.
43. Ibid., 75.
44. Coles, 5.
45. Deane, 8.
46. Macks, 56.
47. Simms, 60.
48. Deane, 8.
49. Macks, 56.
50. Simms, 61.
51. Deane, 8.
52. Coles, 4.
53. Ibid., 5.
54. Ibid.
55. Ibid.
56. Deane, 7.
57. Ibid.
58. Ibid.
59. Macks, 54.
60. Ibid.
61. Ibid.
62. Williams, 71.
63. Ibid.
64. Ibid., 72.
65. Thomas Foote, interviewed by the Federal Writers Project of the Work Progress Administration for the state of Maryland, The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, ed. George P. Rawick, vol. 16, (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Company, 1972, vol. xiii), 14.
66. Ibid.
67. Ibid.
68. Ibid.
69. Ibid., 15.
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