Overseer's daybook (Westwood Plantation, 1822-1823, 1827-1830, 1870, 1875, 1879-1884, 1910-1918, 1936.

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Overseer's daybook (Westwood Plantation, 1822-1823, 1827-1830, 1870, 1875, 1879-1884, 1910-1918, 1936.

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Original daybook and typed transcript. The daybook contains daily accounts of work undertaken (up to 1830, mostly by slaves), weather conditions, expenses, illnesses, holidays, burials and cultivation and planting records. There are also wage records and copies of poetry, song lyrics and other items. The transcript was prepared under the title of "Overseer's Day Book of a Small Plantation 1822-1917" by Lula May McNinch of Columbia, SC, in 1936 as part of W.P.A. Project 65-33-118, which was sponsored by the University of South Carolina and supervised by Dr. Anne K. Gregorie and Flora B. Surles.

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Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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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...

Newell, William H., 1822-1878

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William T. Newell was likely an overseer for Westwood Plantation [Abbeville County, South Carolina?] during the period 1822-1830. A Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) listing of tombstone inscriptions for Long Canes Cemetery in Abbeville County shows a William T. Newell as having died on August 19, 1875, at age 80. From the description of Overseer's daybook (Westwood Plantation, 1822-1823, 1827-1830, 1870, 1875, 1879-1884, 1910-1918, 1936. (Clemson University Libraries). WorldCat...