Hughes, Fountain, 1848-1957

found: Found voices, 1999:container (Fountain Hughes) introductory caption in film (Fountain Hughes) audio statement (b. 1848)

found: Cyrus B. Koonce collection, 1949:recorded interview, Archive of Folk Culture, Library of Congress (Foundtain Hughes; born in 1848 in Charlottesville, VA, former slave, interviewed in Baltimore, MD in 1949 at age 101)

found: English Wikipedia website, viewed May 8, 2015(Fountain Hughes (1848 or c. 1854-1957) was born a slave in Charlottesville, Virginia in the United States and freed in 1865 after the American Civil War. He worked as a laborer for most of his life, moving in 1881 from Virginia to Baltimore, Maryland. He was interviewed in June 1949 about his life by the Library of Congress as part of the Federal Writers' Project of former slaves' oral histories)

found: Monticello.org website, viewed May 8, 2015(under Descendants of Betty Brown: Fountain Hughes (c1854-1957), whose 1949 recollections of his childhood in slavery were preserved in one of the very few surviving sound recordings of former slaves. Like his grandfather, the first Wormley Hughes, he worked as a gardener and ox-team driver)