Interview, 1937.

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Interview, 1937.

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Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of the typescript of an interview. Adams was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews on 7 June 1937 as part of a Works Progress Administration assignment. Adams tells about her experiences as a slave in North Carolina. Adams said that she was treated poorly, given little food, and few clothes. Slaves were not allowed to have fun, learn to read and write, or to go to church. They were given no holidays and were forced to work even after being badly whipped. She also discusses emancipation after the arrival of federal troops during the Civil War. Adams added that the slaves were so hungry that they had to steal to survive, and she speculated that this trait has been handed down to future generations.

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Adams, Louisa Covington, b. ca. 1857.

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Adams was a former slave living in North Carolina. From the description of Interview, 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367737813 ...

Matthews, T. Pat.

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