THE AMERICAN GUIDETOPEKA, KANSASEX SLAVE STORYOTTAWA, KANSASBY: Leta Gray (interviewer)
"My name is Clayton Holbert, and I am an ex slave. I am eighty-six years old. I was born and raised in Linn County, Tennessee. My master's name was Pleasant "Ples" Holbert. My master had a fairly large plantation; he had, I imagine, around one hundred slaves."
"I was working the fields during the wind-up of the Civil War. They always had a man in the field...
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