Her daughter Sarah Mann was interviewed in Summit County, Ohio on June 16, 1937. She spoke of her life, including time as an enslaved person under Dick Belcher near Richmond, Virginia.
Part of the interview record:
Sarah was born on a plantation owned by Dick Belcher, about thirty miles southwest of Richmond, Virginia.
Her father, Frederick Green, was owned by Belcher and her mother, Mandy Booker, by Race Booker on an adjoining plantation. Her grandparents were slaves of Race Booker.
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