Adkins, Ida
Dates
- Existence: ca. 1858
Biography
Ida Adkins was a former slave living in North Carolina.
Ida Adkins was born Ida Lee Jeffries to Hattie and Jim Jeffries sometime between 1854 and 1858, as she says she was "about eight years ole when de Yankee mens come" to Marse Frank Jeffries plantation in North Carolina. She was a slave to Marse Frank Jeffries and his wife, Miss Mary Jane.
Citation:
UPB Files, April 29, 2020 (slave in N.C.). Library of Congress, via WWW, April 29, 2020 (b. approximately 1854 to 1858, parents Hattie and Jim Jeffries, slave on Marse Frank Jeffries plantation).Found in 1 Collection or Record:
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.