Federal Writers' Project
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Bobbitt interview
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2896
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bobbitt was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Bobbitt tells about working and living conditions on the plantation. The slaves were not allowed to read and write or attend church. He talks about the slave trade and marriages. He thinks Lincoln was cruel for emancipating salves and not giving them a...
Dates:
1937
Interviews with former slaves in North Carolina
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2941
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of microfilmed copies of typescripts of interviews. These interviews were conducted in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The items include handwritten corrections. Former slaves in North Carolina were interviewed, and they tell about their experiences as slaves and after they were made free.
Dates:
1937
Interviews with former slaves living in Ohio
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231043446]
Identifier: MSS 2945
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of microfilmed copies of typewritten interviews. These items are interviews with former slaves living in Ohio in 1937. Some of them tell about their experiences with the Ku-Klux Klan.
Dates:
1937