Interview, 1937.

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Interview, 1937.

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Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bectom was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Bdctom tells about how his parents and grandparents were treated by different masters. He says he was well fed and taken care of as a slave. He adds that slaves had prayer meetings but did not attend church. Bectom was taught how to read and write by his master's children. He describes the arrival of the Yankees and how they went through "Jeff Davis money." He praises Abraham Lincoln and speaks strongly against slavery.

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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...

Bectom, John C., b. 1862.

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Bectom was a former slave living in North Carolina. From the description of Interview, 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83960118 ...

Matthews, T. Pat.

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