Willie Jackson oral history interview, 1993.

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Willie Jackson oral history interview, 1993.

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Jackson describes his childhood in Four Corners, work cultivating and harvesting sugarcane, and raising crops with his parents. He describes early transportation by horse, foot, and boat; churches in the area; life on Sterling Plantation; credit at the plantation store; illnesses; marriage customs; gambling on the card game "Kotch"; use of French language; French language work songs; and schooling.

1 sound cassette (45 minutes);Index (3 p.)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7132742

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...

Jackson, Willie, 1889-

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Resident of Four Corners, an unincorporated community south of Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. Willie Jackson and his daughter, Emma Dell Peters lived on Sterling Plantation; Jackson's grandparents were slaves. From the description of Willie Jackson oral history interview, 1993. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 244444760 ...

LaCour-Patrick, Adrienne, 1954-

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