This is a script based on excerpts of interviews taken by the WPA in the 1930's of Ex-Slaves who were still alive and lived through slavery and the Civil war. *

This compilation of readings dealing with the life of a slave as told in the recorded and written interviews, will be performed at Tyrone Plantation in Rapides Parish near Alexandria, Louisiana on Bayou Rapides Road, April 29, 2011 6:00 p.m. Central.

This is part of the Sesquicentennial Civil War recognition.

There are 3 women and 2 men as readers.

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*("When I Was a Slave" Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection edited by Norman R. Yetman.)