Federal Writers' Project
Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:
Marjorie Jones interview with W. L. Bost
Travis Jordan interview with Hector Hamilton
Travis Jordan interview with Ida Adkins
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Adkins was interviewed by Travis Jordan on June 1, 1937 as part of a Federal Writer's Project assignment for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Adkins says that she was 8 years old in 1865 when the Yankees arrived. She tells about Union soldiers trying to steal from her master's farm. She adds that the Federal soldiers threatened her, and that she got bees to attack them.
Travis Jordan interview with Mary Wallace Bowe
T. Pat Matthews interview with Adeline Crump
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Crump was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Crump told about her parents experiences as they related them to her. The parents were given holidays and were allowed to hunt. Crump stated that slavery was bad because all slaves were not treated alike.
T. Pat Matthews interview with Andrew Boone
T. Pat Matthews interview with Charity Austin
T. Pat Matthews interview with Charles W. Dickens
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Dickens was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Dickens talks about life under slavery and how he looked down on the Yankee troops because they stole from the slaves.
T. Pat Matthews interview with Charlie H. Hunter
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Hunter was interviewed by T. Pat Mattthews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Hunter says that his master forced him to watch his mother being whipped while he was still a small child. He talks about the Yankees and about life after the Civil War. He learned to read and write.
T. Pat Matthews interview with Dorcas Griffeth
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Griffeth was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Griffeth talks about her old master and plantation, about bad treatment, and about when the Yankees came through North Carolina. Mainly, she explains how bad her circumstances were at the time of the interview.
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