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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. Fountain was a grandson of Wormley Hughes and Ursula Granger, and great-great-grandson of Betty Hemings, the slave matriarch at Monticello. Wormley Hughes and his family were owned by President Thomas Jefferson at the time of his death. The recorded interview is online through the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library.〔 ==Background and early life== After Thomas Jefferson's death, his grandfather Wormley Hughes, who had worked as a gardener〔 and was among the elite slaves, was "given his time." This was an informal freedom as a reward for his service, but Hughes' wife Ursula and all their children were sold in 1827, along with all but five slaves from Monticello, to settle outstanding debts of the estate. Hughes appealed to Jefferson's grandson to try to keep his family together: Thomas Jefferson Randolph purchased Hughes' wife and his three sons and took them with Wormley to his plantation of Edgehill. Three daughters of Hughes were sold ultimately to people in Missouri and Mississippi; others stayed closer.〔("Hughes (Hemings)" ), ''Getting Word'', Monticello Foundation, see Descendant charts, accessed 26 May 2013〕 Fountain Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia and, with his mother, owned by "B". His father, also owned by B, was killed in the American Civil War. As a slave child, Hughes was sometimes sent as a messenger to another house and would carry a pass to show he was allowed to travel. He said none of the slave boys were given shoes until they were about 12 or 13; they always went barefoot. He described their sleeping on pallets on the floor of their quarters; they did not have beds until after freedom. After being freed, he worked for ten dollars a month.〔
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