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Travis Jordan interview with Fanny Cannady
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2887
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Cannady 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. Cannady tells about how her master, despite his wife's pleading, shot and killed a slave for making a negative comment about the Confederate Army. The victim's brother then ran away and was later caught and severely beaten. She also describes her mother's...
Dates:
1937
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Travis Jordan interview with Mary Wallace Bowe
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2898
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...
Dates:
1937
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections