Thanks to tapes—now digitally remastered—from a project undertaken during the 1930s and 40s by John Henry Falke and others, 101-year-old Fountain Hughes, who was born in 1848, and other ex-slaves give their recollections of life before Emancipation and during Reconstruction.
WARNING: This is GREAT historical information. You may find it hard to hear.
Ex-Slave Fountain Hughes Unedited Interview