A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BY THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT 1936-1938 ASSEMBLED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
WASHINGTON 1941
VOLUME VIII
MARYLAND NARRATIVES
Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Maryland
[TR: Interviews were stamped at left side with state name, date, andinterviewer's name. These stamps were often partially cut off. Wheremonth could not be determined [--] substituted. Interviewers' namesreconstructed from other, complete entries.]
Maryland [--]-23-37 Guthrie
AUNT LUCY [HW: BROOKS]. References: Interview with Aunt Lucy and her son, Lafayette Brooks.
Aunt Lucy, an ex-slave, lives with her son, Lafayette Brooks, in a shackon the Carroll Inn Springs property at Forest Glen, Montgomery County,Md.
To go to her home from Rockville, leave the Court House going east onMontgomery Ave. and follow US Highway No. 240, otherwise known as theRockville Pike, in its southeasterly direction, four and one half milesto the junction with it on the left (east) of the Garrett Park Road.This junction is directly opposite the entrance