Slavery -- North Carolina
Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:
T. Pat Matthews interview with Zeb Crowder
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Crowder 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. Crowder said that the time spent on the plantation was a happy time. He described both slave labor and recreation and talked about the Ku-Klux Klan.
Daisy Whaley interview with Cy Hart
Daisy Whaley interview with Lindsey Faucette
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Faucette was interviewed by Daisy Whaley in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Faucette said his master and mistress treated him well and never whipped or sold him. He added that the Confederate Army did more damage to the plantation than did the Union. After the Civil War, the master let his father use a plot of land for a year.
Nancy Woodburn-Watkins interview with Charles Lee Dalton
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Dalton was interviewed by Nancy Woodburn-Watkins in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Dalton spoke of life on the plantation where he was a slave. He also told about his and his master's families.