BT-PER-00612
Qualls Tolliver (as remembered)
Also recorded as: Qualls Tolliver · Qualls Taliaferro
The name Lucretia Alexander gave for her mother's first enslaver, a man she said later moved to Mississippi. The archive has not identified him in any contemporary record. Whether the name is an oral rendering of Quarles Taliaferro is a research hypothesis, not a finding.
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Life Timeline
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Documented Role
This record is held in the archive as: Enslaver named in testimony; not yet identified in any record.
Not a relative. An enslaver named in testimony. Naming him here records the lead; it does not identify him.
Historical Connections
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- BookAuthored Narrative
BT-SRC-00610Voices From Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives, ed. Norman R. Yetman — narrative of Lucretia Alexander, age 89
Published edition (Yetman, Voices From Slavery)
1 observation drawn from this source
DIRECT DESCENDANT TESTIMONY. This is Lucretia Alexander speaking about her own parents, grandparents, enslavers and migration. It is first-person family testimony, not independent civil, probate or church documentation. Nothing in it becomes a documented fact merely because it is specific. Page locators pending verification against the printed edition.
Observations From the Record
Lucretia remembers Agnes's first enslaver as a man she called Qualls Tolliver, who later moved to Mississippi.
Qualls Tolliver
Voices From Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives, ed. Norman R. Yetman — narrative of Lucretia Alexander, age 89
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