Interviewer's Comment
Mrs. Rollins is in poor health all broken up with "rheumatiz."
She lives with a daughter and grandson, and said she could hardly talk of the happenings of the early days, because of the awful things her folks had to go through
Submitted December 21, 1937
Anatolia, Indiana
Ex-Slave Stories
District #5
Vanderburgh County
Lauana Creel
TOLD BY JOHN RUDD, AN EX-SLAVE
"Yes, I was a slave," said John Rudd, "And I'll say this to the whole world, Slavery was the worst curse ever visited on the people of the United States."
John Rudd is a negro, dark and swarthy as to complexion but his nose is straight and aqualine, for his mother-was half Indian.