Reminiscences of Charlie Smith, 1963.

Biographical Note

Black cowboy

Scope and Contents

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

Subjects

• African American cowboys--Interviews.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• Interviews.
• Kelley, Holland A., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Slavery--United States.
• Slaves--United States--Interviews.
• Smith, Charlie, 1841 or 1842---Interviews.