Childhood Experiences: Ms. Lucille Young
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Full Length Interview
Home Is Where I Make It Oral History Project: Young, Lucille
Interviewees
Lucille Young
Timestamp
(0:40-1:54)
Description
“Well, I'd have to start from way back, you know. I'd have to tell some of the story the way I really know it. I was born on a plantation they called the Latham Plantation, and my mother got sick and went into the hospital. And my mother died, and we never saw her again. So we don't know what happened-where they buried her or what happened. So we had to leave from that plantation. We moved to another plantation called the Chamber plantation, and we lived there for quite a few years, I don't remember. And the man came and told my father, says 'Your wife has died.' Then my father came back inside and told us that 'Your mom has died, but we can't bring her home-we don't have money.' So that's all we know-we never heard from our mother again. So we lived on the Latham plantation, to the Wallace plantation, to the Walker plantation, to the Armstrong Plantation, and to the Johnson Plantation. I lived on about eight different plantations from the late 20s to the late 40s…”
Date
3-31-2001
Keywords
childhood experiences, Black families, Maine
Recommended Citation
Osman, Anab, "Childhood Experiences: Ms. Lucille Young" (2001). Series 1: Family - Recordings. 10.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/we-exist-exhibit-audio/10
Comments
Age at Time of Interview: 73
Born 1928 in Jackson, Mississippi
Duration of Residence in Maine: Moved to Maine in 1967