Oral history interview with Mary Brodie Anderson, 1937.

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Oral history interview with Mary Brodie Anderson, 1937.

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Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Anderson was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews in 1937 as part of a Federal Writer's Project assignment for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Anderson says that she was treated well as a slave. The slave children were allowed to eat with the master and family on Sundays. The slaves were well fed, well clothed, and had comfortable houses. The slave children loved and trusted their master, and he had much contact with them. The slaves were not allowed to read and write, but they could go to church. Anderson describes the arrival of Yankee troops at the end of the Civil War and says that many former slaves returned home after wandering. She says, "I think slavery was a mighty good thing for mother, father, [and] me."

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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...

Federal writer's project

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Hinton was a former slave who was living in North Carolina at the time of the interview. From the guide to the Martha Adeline Hinton interview, 1937, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) One of the first actions by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression of the 1930s was to extend federal work relief to the unemployed. One such relief program was the Works Progress Administration, which FDR established in 1933. By 1941 the WPA had provided empl...

Anderson, Mary Brodie, b. 1851,

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Anderson was a former slave living in North Carolina. From the description of Oral history interview with Mary Brodie Anderson, 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367740553 ...

Matthews, T. Pat.

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