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Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:

Mary A. Hicks interview with John Coggin

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346824]
Identifier: MSS 2923
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Coggin 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. Coggin said he was given enough food and clothing on the plantation, but he never had shoes. He stated that his master came to visit his former slaves on the day he died.

Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with John Daniels

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346550]
Identifier: MSS 2930
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Daniels 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. Daniels tells about how slaves cheered up one of their number.

Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Julia Crenshaw

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346683]
Identifier: MSS 2925
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Crenshaw 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. Crenshaw gives an account of her mother's experience as a slave.

Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Laura Bell

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346261]
Identifier: MSS 2893
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bell 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. Bell tells of the courting relationship of her parents and how they came to be married. She relates her own marriage story as well.

Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Lucy Brown

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346048]
Identifier: MSS 2899
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Brown 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. Brown was a child during the Civil War and relates stories she heard from her mother. Brown makes references to slave women giving birth while working in the fields, whippings of pregnant slaves, and witchcraft. Brown gave birth to 16 children in 16...
Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Mary Barbour

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346386]
Identifier: MSS 2889
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Barbour 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. Barbour relates the story of her family's escape at the end of the Civil War. They were "reffes who fled to Roanoke, Virginia, so thay they could [join] the Yankees."

Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Mattie Curtis

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346154]
Identifier: MSS 2895
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Curtis was interviewed by Mary Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Curtis describes how badly she was treated by various owners. She was not given clothes until she was fourteen years of age, and her life was threatened at times. She explains that "yeller gals" were kept in a different slave quarter where the master and his...
Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Milly Henry

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346832]
Identifier: MSS 2922
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Henry 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. Henry was on a plantation in Mississippi but was moved to North Carolina when the Union Army approached. She was in Raleigh at the end of the Civil War and saw a Confederate soldier hanged for shooting at the Union forces and then laughing about it.

Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Sarah Harris

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346931]
Identifier: MSS 2908
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Harris 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. Harris says that after the Civil War, she wanted to remain on the plantation because she was hungry and because she loved her "white folks." She tells how she and her mother worked hard after emancipation to buy land and build a home.

Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interviews with Midge Burnett

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346030]
Identifier: MSS 2900
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Burnett 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. Burnett talks about his work as a slave and also tells what the slaves did for recreation. He claims that the master only hit one slave once, and he gives an account of that occurrence.

Dates: 1937

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Interviews 63
Politics, Government, and Law 59
Civic Activism 56
Slavery -- North Carolina 52
Slaves -- Emancipation -- North Carolina 50