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Mary A. Hicks interview with Mandy Coverson
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2879
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Coverson 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. Coverson was a child when her mother died, and she was raised in the plantation house. She describes the Union Army briefly, talks about the Ku Klux Klan, and gives thanks for her freedom.
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
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
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Mary A. Hicks interview with David Blount
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2885
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Blount 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. Blount tells a detailed story of how his master fired an abusive overseer. He also tells of how he stopped a slave revolt from occuring on the plantation. He acompanied his master to the Civil War as his "personal servant." Blount talks about Jim, a slave who...
Dates:
1937
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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
Mary A. Hicks interview with Mattie Curtis
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2895
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Curtis was interviewed by Mary Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Curtis describes how badly she was treated by various owners. She was not given clothes until she was fourteen years of age, and her life was threatened at times. She explains that "yeller gals" were kept in a different slave quarter where the master and his...
Dates:
1937
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Mary A. Hicks interview with Henry Bobbitt
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2896
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bobbitt 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. Bobbitt tells about working and living conditions on the plantation. The slaves were not allowed to read and write or attend church. He talks about the slave trade and marriages. He thinks Lincoln was cruel for emancipating salves and not giving them a...
Dates:
1937
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Mary A. Hicks interview with Herndon Bogan
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2897
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bogan 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. The interview took place in the North Carolina state prison, where Bogan was incarcerated for manslaughter. He tells about his father going to war to fight with his master for the Confederacy. The wife of the slave owner was a Yankee sympathizer. Bogan...
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
Mary A. Hicks interview with Lucy Brown
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2899
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Brown 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. Brown was a child during the Civil War and relates stories she heard from her mother. Brown makes references to slave women giving birth while working in the fields, whippings of pregnant slaves, and witchcraft. Brown gave birth to 16 children in 16...
Dates:
1937
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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