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Oral Histories

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Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Mary A. Hicks interview with Henry Bobbitt

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346147]
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

Mary A. Hicks interview with Herndon Bogan

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346170]
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

Mary A. Hicks interview with Lucy Brown

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346048]
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

Mary A. Hicks interview with Mattie Curtis

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346154]
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

Mary A. Hicks interviews with Midge Burnett

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346030]
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