Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bowe was interviewed by Travis Jordan in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Bowe talks about her master going to the Civil War and when the Yankees invaded the plantation. She and the slaves hid and saved the jewelry and silver objects. She claims that Abraham Lincoln passed through the plantation as a spy and dressed like a...

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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.

Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Boone 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. Boone gives a description of the plantation work and living conditions of slaves. He also describes in detail slave sales and the grueling slave whippings. He adds that he was afraid of the Yankees during the Civil War and that after emancipation everything...

Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Austin 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. Austin claims to have seen Abraham Lincoln, General Robert E. Lee, and General William Sherman, but the nature of her account makes her assertion doubtful. She says the slaves were ignorant of their emancipation. She stayed on the plantation a year after she...

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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.

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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.

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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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Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Hunter 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. Hunter says that his master always treated him well and this master never allowed the slaves to be bothered by "patterollers." He describes the Yankees and the damage they did to the plantation. He is happy to be free.

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Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Blalock 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. Blalock describes Christmas on the plantation. She talks about the use of liquor and drunkenness among slaves. She explains how the slaves were taken care of medically and says, "I think slavery wus a right good thing. Plenty to eat an' wear."

Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Harris 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. Harris says that while the conditions on his master's plantation were not ideal, his master always treated him kindly. He describes the housing, work, and recreation on the plantation and says that Yankee soldiers forced him and other slaves to work in a...