Leonard Martin oral history interview, 1993.

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Leonard Martin oral history interview, 1993.

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The interview records Martin's account of the sale of his great-grandfather as a slave. Martin describes his education; his father's career as the first black schoolteacher in the area; work in sugarcane farming; a dance-hall operator, Alice LeBaude; forms of transportation, including buggy, jumper, and surrey; the marriage of his white maternal grandmother to a Native American; the hospitality of his white uncles; and his own long marriage. Martin discusses his work in Texas during slow times on the sugarcane farm, life in residence with his father, the use of drugs in Four Corners, All Saints Day, and his religion.

1 sound cassette (1.5 hours);Index (4 p.)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7132693

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

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The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History was established in August 1991 to document the history of Louisiana State University. A department of LSU Libraries Special Collections, the Center conducts, collects, preserves, and makes available to scholars oral history interviews on Louisiana's social, political, cultural, and economic history. From the description of T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History records, 1990-1998. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 22696...

Martin, Leonard, 1908-

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Sugarcane farmer and great-grandson of a slave, Leonard Martin was a resident of Four Corners, Louisiana, an unincorporated community south of Franklin, Saint Mary Parish, Louisiana. From the description of Leonard Martin oral history interview, 1993. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 244442619 ...

LaCour-Patrick, Adrienne, 1954-

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