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T. Pat Matthews interview with Mary Anngady
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2874
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Anngady 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. Anngady was educated on her master's plantation and went to Shaw Collegiate Institute after the Civil War. She gives a detailed description of what her husband told her of African tribal life. She talks about "savages," witch doctors, tribal kings, and...
Dates:
1937
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Mary A. Hicks interview with Viney Baker
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2882
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Baker 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. Baker was freed after the Civil War, but he continued to be forced to work, and he was treated very poorly. His mother was sold in the middle of the night. He describes severe beatings and being reunited with his mother.
Dates:
1937
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections