Responses to questionnaire on slavery and newspaper, 1912-1919.

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Responses to questionnaire on slavery and newspaper, 1912-1919.

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Responses, 1912-1913, to a questionnaire H.C. Nixon prepared and distributed in 1912 while researching slavery in Ala. The questionnaire solicited information on slaves' housing, clothing, food, employment, family life, education, entertainment, religion, morality, treatment by their owners, escapes, punishment, emancipation, and relationships and attitudes toward free Negroes and nonslaveholding whites. The majority of respondents are former slaveholders. One, M.T. McCann of East Lake, Ala., was a former slave. Some responses, such as those of M.T. Judge of Mobile, Ala., John H. Alexander of Tuskegee, Ala., H.M. Bush of Talladega, Ala., and James M. Davison of Brewton, Ala., are quite lengthy and detailed; others give moderate detail, and a few give brief comments or "yes" or "no" answers written on the margins of the questionnaire. Respondents describe the conditions of slave life in Calhoun, Chambers, Clarke, Colbert, DeKalb, Hale, Macon, Madison, Mobile, Montgomery, Perry, Russell, St. Clair, Sumter, and Talladega Counties in Ala. A copy of the printed questionnaire appears at the front of each folder. Also of interest is a 1919 newspaper, the American Sentinel, that discusses the end of World War I and the Russian Civil War. The paper was published by the American Red Cross in Russia for the Expeditionary Force and American organizations.

.33 cubic ft. (1 archives box and 1 oversized folder).

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Nixon, H. C. (Herman Clarence), 1886-1967

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H.C. Nixon was born in 1886 in Merrellton, Calhoun Co., Ala., and died in 1967. An author and educator, Nixon was a member of a group of post-World War I Southern writers who were responsible for the so-called Southern Renaissance in Letters. A biography of Nixon by Sarah Newman Shouse, Hillbilly Realist: Herman Clarence Nixon of Possum Trot, was published by the University of Alabama Press in 1986. From the description of Responses to questionnaire on slavery and newspaper, 1912-191...

Alexander, John H.

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Judge, M.T.

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American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Bush, H.M.

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McCann, M.T.

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Davison, James T.

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