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Blount, David. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Blount 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. Blount tells a detailed story of how his master fired an abusive overseer. He also tells o how he stopped a slave revolt from occurring on the plantation. He accompanied his master to the Civil War as his "personal servant." Blount talks about Jim, a slave who was the personal servant of the master's son and how he (Jim) carried the son's dead body back to the master after the "Battle of Manassas."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (6 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54503448 View

Bogan, Herndon, b. ca 1861. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

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 also tells about witchcraft among the slaves.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

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Henry, Milly, b. ca. 1855. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Henry 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. Henry was on a plantation in Mississippi but was moved to North Carolina when the Union Army approached. She was in Raleigh at the end of the Civil War and saw a Confederate soldier hanged for shooting at the Union forces and then laughing about it.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (5 pages).

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Coverson, Mandy, b. ca. 1859. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Coverson 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. Coverson was a child when her mother died, and she was raise in the plantation house. She describes the Union Army briefly, talks about the Ku Klux Klan, and gives thanks for her freedom

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 pages).

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Barbour, Mary, b. ca. 1856. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Barbour 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. Barbour relates the story of her family's escape at the end of the Civil War. They were "reffes who fled to Roanoke, Virginia, so thay they could [join] the Yankees."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82270602 View

Hodges, Eustace. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Hodges was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. Hodges gives a brief account of life on a plantation as a slave. She says that she was once whipped for hurting a frog.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 pages).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82031674 View

Brown, Lucy, b. ca. 1860. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

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 years.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 pages).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78495581 View

Crenshaw, Julia. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Crenshaw 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. Crenshaw gives and account of her mother's experience as a slave.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 page)

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Blount, David,. Oral history interview with David Blount, 1937.

Title: Oral history interview with David Blount, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Blount 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. Blount tells a detailed story of how his master fired an abusive overseer. He also tells of how he stopped a slave revolt from occuring on the plantation. He acompanied his master to the Civil War as his "personal servant." Blount talks about Jim, a slave who was the personal servant of the master's son, and how he (Jim) carried the son's dead body back to the master after the "Battle of Manassas."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (6 p.)

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Dunn, Lucy Ann, b. ca. 1847. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Dunn 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. She describes the master's house and the slave cabins on the plantation. She gives both her own and her master's reaction to the Yankee invasion. She also give a heartfelt account of her courtship and marriage to her late husband, Jim Dunn.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (5 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54503445 View

Bobbitt, Clay, b. 1837. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

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 was treated very poorly as a slave. He had little food and clothing and was allowed no diversions. His wife was sold months after their marriage. He also talks about "poor white trash," "Shim Sham," which were African Americans of mixed ancestry, and the Ku Klux Klan.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54478337 View

Coggin, John, b. 1852. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Coggin 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. Coggin said he was given enough food and clothing on the plantation, but he never had shoes. He stated that his master came to visit his former slaves on the day he died.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 pages).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79136399 View

Baugh, Alice, b. ca. 1873. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Baugh 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. Baugh tells stories as related by her mother who was a slave. Alice claims that life under slavery was a happy and prosperous time. She says that slaves cried from sorrow when emancipated and that they sang, "We'll hang Abe Lincoln on de Sour Apple Tree." She obviously confuses the song which mentions Jefferson Davis not Abraham Lincolen. She claims that the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is untrue and the cause of the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 pages).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79217548 View

Hicks, Mary. Mary Hicks Letters, to M. Carey Thomas, 1877-1878.

Title: Mary Hicks Letters, to M. Carey Thomas, 1877-1878.

Letters from Hicks to M. Carey Thomas discussing undergraduate life at Cornell University, social life, and other matters.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63540937 View

Allen, Martha Bryant, b. ca. 1859. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Allen was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks on 7 June1937 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.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54478335 View

Bell, Laura, b. ca. 1864. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bell 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. Bell tells of the courting relationship of her parents and how they came to be married. She relates her own marriage story as well.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 pages).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80530617 View

Andrews, Cornelia, b. 1850?. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Andrews 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. Andrews describes the Smithfield, North Carolina, slave market and tells stories of slave beatings, both her own and of others. She also makes references to slave breeding.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54478338 View

Henderson, Frank Vick. Frank Vick Henderson Diary, 1855-1862

Title: Frank Vick Henderson Diary, 1855-1862

Personal diary of Frank Vick Henderson (1855-1862) relating details about his plantation in Mississippi, his marriage, move to Texas, and current events.

ArchivalResource: 1 1/2 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777604643 View

Burnett, Midge, b. ca. 1857. Interiews, 1937.

Title: Interiews, 1937.

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 and account of that occurrence.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54793086 View

Daniels, John. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Daniels 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. Daniels tells about how slaves cheered up one of their number.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 pages).

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Beckwith, John, b. ca. 1854. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Beckwith 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. Beckwith describes conditioins under slavery as "happy days" and says that the slaves cursed Abraham Lincoln for emancipation. He relates how the Yankees ransacked the plantation when they arrived. He and his family remained on the plantation long after the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 pages).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81837114 View

Davis, Jerry, b. ca. 1863. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Davis 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. Davis talks about life on the plantation.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54797536 View

Harris, Sarah, b. 1861. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Harris 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. Harris says that after the Civil War, she wanted to remain on the plantation because she was hungry and because she loved her "white folks." She tells how she and her mother worked hard after emancipation to buy land and build a home.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54793126 View

Allen, Martha Bryant, b. ca. 1859,. Oral history interview with Martha Bryant Allen, 1937.

Title: Oral history interview with Martha Bryant Allen, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Allen was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks on 7 June 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.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367738647 View

Curtis, Mattie, b. ca. 1839. Interview, 1937.

Title: Interview, 1937.

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 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 friends would take advantage of these women. This practice led to incest. Curtis also tells show she prospered after the Civil War and says the younger generation "ain't worth shucks."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (6 pages).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81792424 View

Bobbitt, Clay, b. 1837,. Oral history interview with Clay Bobbitt, 1937.

Title: Oral history interview with Clay Bobbitt, 1937.

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 was treated very poorly as a slave. He had little food and clothing and was allowed no diversions. His wife was sold months after their marriage. He also talks about "poor white trash," "Shim Sham," which were African Americans of mixed ancestry, and also of the Ku Klux Klan.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367742780 View

Coverson, Mandy, b. ca. 1859,. Oral history interview with Mandy Coverson, 1937.

Title: Oral history interview with Mandy Coverson, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Coverson 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. Coverson was a child when her mother died, and she was raised in the plantation house. She describes the Union Army briefly, talks about the Ku Klux Klan, and gives thanks for her freedom.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367743923 View

Dunn, Lucy Ann,. Oral history interview with Lucy Ann Dunn, 1937.

Title: Oral history interview with Lucy Ann Dunn, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Dunn 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. She describes the master's house and the slave cabins on the plantation. She gives both her own and her master's reaction to the Yankee invasion. She also gives a heartfelt account of her courtship and marriage to her late husband, Jim Dunn.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (5 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367750237 View

Baker, Viney, b. 1859?,. Oral history interview with Viney Baker, 1937.

Title: Oral history interview with Viney Baker, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Baker 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. Baker was freed after the Civil War, but he continued to be forced to work, and he was treated very badly. His mother was sold in the middle of the night. He describes severe beatings and being reunited with his mother.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367743931 View

Andrews, Cornelia, b. 1850?,. Oral history interview with Cornelia Andrews, 1937.

Title: Oral history interview with Cornelia Andrews, 1937.

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Andrews 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. Andrews describes the Smithfield, North Carolina, slave market and tells stories of slave beatings, both her own and of others. She also makes references to slave breeding.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/367742788 View

Papers, 1726-1948.

Title: Papers, 1726-1948.

Includes bills, receipts, lists, marriage certificates, letters, bonds, deeds, poems, clippings, stock certificates, wills and estate papers, accounts, copybooks, and other items; family members represented include Isaac Hicks, Benjamin Hicks, Elizabeth Hicks, Richard Hicks, and Mark Hicks. Of note are business papers of Isaac Hicks, 1781-1818, from his import/export business; manuscript poems by Elizabeth Hicks, ca. 1800; copybook containing a poem by Joshua Haight of Nine Partners (Dutchess County, N.Y.) after a visit to Long Island, 1768; and the journal of Mary Willett, 1853.

ArchivalResource: ca. 2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155553419 View