Juneteenth memories from Baylor’s oral history archives
…ndmother had some friends her age and a little older. There was one woman, Nancy Hagworth, who also came from the Stroud plantation, and she was a distant relative because we were related — you know, all people came from the plantation. We called her ‘Sis.’ The thing about Sis, Mrs. Hagworth, was that she was six years old when slavery ended, and she remembered things. She used to tell me slavery stories. Her mother was the cook in the big house a…