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Slaves -- North Carolina -- Interviews

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:

Daisy Whaley interview with Lindsey Faucette

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346857]
Identifier: MSS 2920
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Daisy Whaley interview with Lindsey Faucette

Nancy Woodburn-Watkins interview with Charles Lee Dalton

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346568]
Identifier: MSS 2929
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Nancy Woodburn-Watkins interview with Charles Lee Dalton

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