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Title: Wallace Quarterman: Voices from the Days of Slavery: Stories, Songs and Memories

Speakers: Wallace Quarterman and Zora Neale Hurston
Series: Voices from the Days of Slavery: Stories, Songs and Memories
Date: June 29, 2009
Running Time: 9:26 minutes

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Description:

In this interview from 1935, Mr. Wallace Quarterman of St. Simons Island, Georgia, recalls the last days of slavery for Zora Neale Hurston, Alan Lomax, and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle of the Library of Congress.