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	FEDERAL WRITERS‘ PROJEOT
American ~ttide,(NegrO Tritera‘ Unit)
. Jack soxwill e ‚ for Ida
Rachel E Austin		Slave Interview
Field Worker		November 20, 1936
Complete
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	The life o:r Florida Clayton ta interesting in that it illustrates the miecegenation . prevalent during the ~ya of slavery. Interesting also ie the faot that Floridaiva. not a alave even though 8he waa a product of those turbulent da.ye. ~any years be!ore her birth- March‘ 1, 1854— flori~.! 8 great grandfather, a white man, Ce~Ie to Tallahaeaee, T1orid~ from washington, District of Co1i~mbia, With his ohuidren whom he had by hi s Negro slave • On coming to Flor I da, he se t all of hi e ohi id— rGn free except one boy, Amoe, who was sold to a Major Ward. Tor what reason this wae done, no one knew. Florida, named Zor the etate in whioh ehe was born, WSB one of seven ohiidxen born to Charlotte Norris(oolored) who se father was a white man ~fld ~vid Ciayton(~1~i ta).

	Florida, in a retrogressive mood, can recall the ‘nigger ~1untersft and. “nigger eteakere‘ of her childhood daye. Mr. Nimrod. and ~r. Shehee, both white, epecialized in catching runaway alavee with t~13jr trained blOOdhOufldß. Her parents alwaya warned her and her brot hers and sietera to go in t e yard whenever they eaw the se m~r~ w~th~ their doge lest the ferocious animale tear them to pieces. I~ re~ar~is to the ‘nigger stealers,‘ Florida telle .of a covered ~sgon