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Fountain Hughes (ca. 1859 [2] – 1957) was an American former slave freed in 1865 after the American Civil War. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, he worked as a laborer for most of his life, moving in 1881 from Virginia to Baltimore, Maryland.
Nevertheless, the compelling voices of these individuals transport the listener to a defining period in this country’s history. In this 1949 interview, conducted in Baltimore. Maryland, Mr. Fountain Hughes recounts his memories of slavery times to Hermond Norwood of the Library of Congress. HERMOND NORWOOD.
4 de may. de 2020 · La que transcribimos ahora en ABC fue realizada a Fountain Hughes en junio 1949, cuando tenía 101 años. En la grabación recuerda su infancia como esclavo, la Guerra Civil americana y la vida en...
Fountain Hughes. Fountain Hughes spent his boyhood in slavery on the Hydraulic Mills property of the Burnley family near Charlottesville. After the Civil War, in which his father was killed while with the Confederate Army, his mother, Mary Hughes, had to hire Fountain out for a dollar a month.
11 de sept. de 2023 · In this transcript of a 1949 recording, Fountain Hughes, a man born into slavery, tells Hermond Norwood from the Library of Congress about his life under slavery. The recording is among the few surviving sound recordings of formerly enslaved people. This interview, along with other Virginia Writers Project interviews, offer a ...
“We Was Jus’ Turned Out Like a Lot of Cattle”: Fountain Hughes Recalls His Life in Slavery and Freedom, Baltimore, 1944 Fountain Hughes was born a slave in 1848 in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1944 (or 1949) he was interviewed in Baltimore by Hermond Norwood, a representative of the Library of Congress’s Archive of Folk Song.
Description: Fountain Hughes reflects on his childhood experiences before and after the end of slavery in Charlottesville, VA. Among other events, Mr. Hughes recollects slave auctions and the hardships endured by freed slaves after the end of the Civil War.
