Delia Garlic (c. 1837 - ?) was a formerly enslaved woman originally from Virginia. Garlic is best known for her first-hand account of enslavement, the Civil War, and post-emancipation freedom. In 1937 when she was one hundred years old, the Federal Writers' Project of The Works Project Administration recorded her oral history, in Montgomery, Alabama.[1] During this testimony, she offered first-person testimony of the horrors of the slave trade, "when babies were snatched from their mothers breasts," and of being sold six times before emancipation.[2][3][4][5][6]
- ^ Delia Garlic - A Monumental Weight, retrieved 2024-03-21
- ^ "Image 135 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 1, Alabama, Aarons-Young". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
- ^ Library of Congress (1936). "Delia Garlic, Age 100". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
- ^ Niven, Steven J. (May 31, 2013). "Garlic, Delia T." Oxford African American Studies Center. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.36884. ISBN 978-0-19-530173-1. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
- ^ New Orleans Slave Trade. "6a. FIRST-PERSON TESTIMONY: DELIA GARLIC" (audio). NOLA Slave Marker and Tour App 2018. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
- ^ Montgomery Advertiser (June 3, 2019). "Where was the Lord? Four slave testimonies". Montgomery Advertiser. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
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