LAMAR COUNTY, GA - Afriamerican Indian Slave Narratives Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Shanna English ojmuseum@yahoo.com Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/lamar.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ==================== Contributed by: Shanna English ojmuseum@yahoo.com Sources located: Old Jail Museum and Archives, 326 Thomaston Street, Barnesville, GA 30204 Phone: 770 358-5855 Hours: Wednesday and Saturday - 10 to 2, Sunday 2 to 5 ===================== Actual Documents are available at Old Jail Museum and Archives This is the name that the gov't. gave to persons of color & Indian blood who were former slaves. The WPA sent out interviewers during the 1930s to interview ex-slaves.The Library of Congress houses the vast collection. ADAMS, William M. BARNETT, Amelia BROWN, Josie BUTLER, Ed CAMPBELL, Jack CARTER, Cato CARTER, Joseph William CHANEY, Richardson DAVIS, Lucinda DIXON, Bud FRANKLIN, Richard FRYER, Carrie Nancy GREEN, James HENDERSON, Henry HENRY, Robert HINES, Elizabeth HOLLOWAY, H.B. (Dad Pappy) JOHNSON, Nellie LOVE, Kiziah MACK, Chaney MAXWELL, Malindy MCDUFFIE, Lorraine MILLER, Harriet (Aunt) MITCHELL, A.J. NEALY, Wylie NEWMAN, Virginia OWENS, Henry RADFORD, Ruby RAY, Morgan RICHARDSON, Martha SCROGGINS, Cora SHELBY, Will SOLOMON, Robert STEWART, Charley THOMPSON, Mamie THOMPSON, Ned THOMPSON, Victoria Taylor TRAVIS, Hannah WALKER, Agnes WARD, Rochelle Allred WILLIAMS, Lou WRIGHT, Alice AFRAMERINDIAN SLAVE NARRATIVES The Trail of Tears started as Indian Removal from Georgia by gov't.-Cherokee, Creek marched out of Georgia 1838.. 2,000 Cherokees moved from Ga. to Okla. by deadline set by US Gov't., 15,00 remained in Ga.-forced by gov't troops into concentration camps, then loaded into 645 covered wagons & forced to ride & walk westward toward Okla. 4,000 died enroute. Brutal removal of Cherokee, Creeks, et al became known as the Trail of Tears. MANY of those removed were of black(ex-slaves + run away slaves)& Indian blood.