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Mary A. Hicks interview with Mandy Coverson
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.
Mary A. Hicks interview with Viney Baker
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.
Mary A. Hicks interview with Lucy Ann Dunn
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.
Mary A. Hicks interview with David Blount
Mary A. Hicks interview with Mattie Curtis
Mary A. Hicks interview with Henry Bobbitt
Mary A. Hicks interview with Herndon Bogan
Mary A. Hicks interview with Lucy Brown
Mary A. Hicks interviews with Midge Burnett
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Burnett 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. Burnett talks about his work as a slave and also tells what the slaves did for recreation. He claims that the master only hit one slave once, and he gives an account of that occurrence.
Oral history interview with Martha Bryant Allen
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Allen was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks on June 7, 1937 as part of a Federal Writer's Project assignment for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Allen talks about her mixed-ethnic background, how hard the slave women had to work, the "carpet gitters" who pursued slave women, and the Ku Klux Klan.
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