Hicks, Mary A.
Person
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Bobbitt interview
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 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
Oral history interview with Martha Bryant Allen
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346238]
Identifier: MSS 2867
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1937 June 7
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- Freedmen -- North Carolina -- Interviews 5
- Slavery -- North Carolina -- History 5
- Slaves -- Emancipation -- North Carolina -- History 5
- Material Types 4
- Oral Histories 4
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