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Mary A. Hicks interview with Lucy Ann Dunn

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2884
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Dunn 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. She describes the master's house and the slave cabins on the plantation. She gives both her own and her master's reaction to the Yankee invasion. She also gives a heartfelt account of her courtship and marriage to her late husband, Jim Dunn.

Dates: 1937

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  • Search term: oral history X
  • Subject: Freedmen -- North Carolina -- Interviews X
  • Names: Dunn, Lucy Ann X