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Title: Ann Williams and Jim Williams oral history interview, 2018, November 29
Creator: Williams, Ann, 1940-2020
Date Created: 2018-11-29
Subjects--Topical: Plantations, Historical reenactments, History--Research, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslavement
Description: Ann and Jim Williams talk about their shared experiences as historical researchers, reenactors, and authors of local history books related to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Major themes of their discussion include slavery and the lives of ens...

Title: Ann Williams oral history interview, 2018, November 29
Creator: Williams, Ann, 1940-2020
Date Created: 2018-11-29
Subjects--Topical: Relations with slaves, Plantations, Letters, Slavery, Hand weaving, Agricultural laborers, History--Research, Enslavement
Description: Ann Williams reflects on her path to becoming an antebellum historian. She describes how the growth of her interest, research, and immersion in her subject led to her publishing multiple books. [All times approximate] [0:00:45] Introduction to his...

Title: Harold Albert Wiley Jr. oral history interview, 2017 July 27
Creator: Wiley, Harold Albert, Jr.
Date Created: 2017-07-27
Subjects--Topical: African American history, Slavery, Plantations, Migration–internal, Race relations, Genealogy, Enslavement
Description: Harold Wiley Jr., a descendent of George Caldwell, talks about his family, their connection to the Rosedale plantation in Charlotte, North Carolina, and his lifetime work discovering his family genealogy. [All times approximate]. [02:30] Mr. Wiley...

Title: Jane McIntyre oral history interview, 2017 October 31
Creator: McIntyre, Jane London
Date Created: 2017-10-31
Subjects--Topical: Plantations, Genealogy
Description: Jane McIntyre, the descendent of Archibald Frew who built Rosedale Plantation in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1815, describes her family history. [All times approximate] [00:00] Introductions and a brief description of Ms. McIntyre's family c...

Title: Richard Suddreth oral history interview, 2017 October 30
Creator: Suddreth, Richard
Date Created: 2017-10-30
Subjects--Topical: Plantations, Historic house museums
Description: Richard Suddreth, who grew up in North Charlotte (NoDa), a neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls his memories of the neighboring Rosedale plantation and his friendship with the historic home's last owners Alice Davidson Able and ...

Title: William T. Alexander oral history interview 1, 1992 Spring
Creator: Alexander, William Tasse, 1904-1992
Date Created: 1992
Subjects--Topical: Families, Rich people, Genealogy, Carriages and carts, Christian life, Plantations, Family farms, Cotton, Freedmen, Farm life, Education, Livestock, African Americans--Segregation, Sharecropping
Description: In this first of three interviews, William T. Alexander describes growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina in the Mallard Creek Church region during the early twentieth century and how the area changed over time. Mr. Alexander's ancestors were some...