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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
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
Mary A. Hicks interviews with Midge Burnett
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2900
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1937
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
T. Pat Matthews interview with Squire Dowd
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2936
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Dowd 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. Dowd talks about his life as a slave. He was afraid of Federal forces when they moved into the area at the end of the Civil War, but he did not know he was free until five years later. He also talks about his early religious instruction.
Dates:
1937
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Jörg Schmidt police report
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2684
Scope and Contents
One cassette sound tape in German with a typewritten transcript also in German. The item is Schmidt's account of an interrogation from the East German police relating to his Mormon Church activities.
Dates:
1990
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Don C. Conley oral histories for The Pioneer Chinese of Utah
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 7633
Scope and Contents
Collection includes twelve sound reels containing interviews of either descendants of early settlers in the Utah Territory, such as Wallace Clay, or Utah historians, like Juanita Brooks. The interviews are oral histories that were used as part of Conley's master's thesis, published in 1976. Each reel includes one person's story, with the exception of reel number nine, which contains two interviews. Dated 1974-1975.
Dates:
1974-1975
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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