Oral history interview with Charlie Smith, 1963
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- Name
- Smith, Charlie, 1841 or 1842- (Interviewee)
- Kelley, Holland A (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Charlie Smith, 1963
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Charlie Smith, 1963
- Abstract
- Reminiscences of his boyhood in Africa, abduction by a slavetrader, and sale in a New Orleans slave market; experiences as an enslaved person and free man on the ranch of Charles Smith near Galveston, Texas
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Slaves--United States; African American cowboys; African Americans--Social conditions; Slavery--United States; Smith, Charlie, 1841 or 1842-
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1963
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
- Note (Biographical)
- Black cowboy
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Holland A. Kelley
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 6873582
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/fky2-7082
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.