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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: Bill-of-sale for Loney, an enslaved man in North Carolina
Creator: Bisaner, J. A., 1837-1920
Date Created: 1865-01-02
Subjects--Topical: Slave trade, Enslaved persons, Slavery, Enslavement
Description: Bill of sale dated January 2, 1865 for an enslaved man named Loney. The buyer was N. A. Wingate & Co. of Charlotte, North Carolina; and the seller was J. A. Bisaner, of Lincolnton. At the time Loney was about twenty seven years old and was sold fo...

Title: Emma Peoples Smith oral history interview 1, 2019 May 23
Creator: Smith, Emma Peoples
Date Created: 2019-05-23
Subjects--Topical: Genealogy, Slavery, Nannies, Country life, Race relations--Social aspects, Working mothers, Enslavement
Description: Emma Peoples Smith, the great granddaughter of Richard Peoples who was a prominent citizen in the Providence township of Mecklenburg County during the 19th century, describes her life and her family history. [All times approximate]. Overview of Mr...

Title: Emma Peoples Smith oral history interview 3, 2020 March 10
Creator: Smith, Emma Peoples
Date Created: 2020-03-10
Subjects--Topical: Archives, Slavery, Documentary films, Gold mines and mining, Enslaved persons, Enslavement
Description: In this third of three interviews Emma Peoples Smith, the great granddaughter of Richard Peoples who was a prominent citizen in the Providence township of Mecklenburg County during the 19th century discusses archiving her family papers, some of th...

Title: H.D. Kirkpatrick oral history interview, 2017 November 17
Creator: Kirkpatrick, H. D. (Hugh DeArmond), II, 1948-
Date Created: 2017-11-17
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Genealogy, Conscientious objectors, Humanistic psychology, Child abuse--Law and legislation, Slavery, Bible. Genesis, Enslavement
Description: In this fourth and final recording in a series of interviews with Jimmie Lee and H.D. Kirkpatrick, H.D. Kirkpatrick reflects on his family, his life experiences, and his shifting perspective on family and Southern history. Dr. Kirkpatrick describe...

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: Harold Pulley oral history interview 1, 2012 May 31
Creator: Pulley, Harold
Date Created: 2012-05-31
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Interracial marriage, Racially mixed children, Slavery, Underground Railroad, Lynching, Enslavement
Description: In this first of four interviews, Harold Pulley, North Carolina native and alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, begins by discussing his family background including his father's acquisition of farmland in return for const...

Title: Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and H.D. Kirkpatrick oral history interview 3, 2017 October 23
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Jimmie Lee
Date Created: 2017-10-23
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Racism, Slavery, Genealogy, Poverty, African Americans--Reparations, Football, Enslavement
Description: In this third of four related interviews,, H.D. Kirkpatrick and Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick continue to discuss their relationship as it developed after their revelation that their family histories are connected through slavery in Charlotte and Mecklen...

Title: Patterson Family. Elizabeth Potts. Papers
Creator: Potts, Elizabeth, 1798-1860
Date Created: 1825, 1859
Subjects--Topical: Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Slave bills of sale, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Wills, Enslavement
Description: Document recording the sale of an enslaved African American girl, Cheany (13), from Elizabeth Potts to Edwin Potts for 400 dollars. Also includes three wills written by Elizabeth Potts that detail the disposition of her property and enslaved indiv...

Title: Patterson Family. William Patterson. Papers
Creator: Patterson, William, 1806-1886
Date Created: 1826-09-09, 1872-04-03
Subjects--Topical: Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Farm management, Armies, Swearing, Enslavement
Description: Includes a certificate for militia duty, a marriage license (Photostat), correspondence (concerning typhus fever outbreak among enslaved individuals on the plantation), and a legal complaint by William Patterson against Thomas M. Alexander for pro...

Title: Patterson family. William Patterson. Freedmen and enslaved individuals
Creator: Patterson, William, 1806-1886
Date Created: 1832, 1865
Subjects--Topical: Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Farm management, Slave bills of sale, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslaved persons--Emancipation, Sharecropping, Enslavement
Description: Includes slave bills-of-sale, correspondence regarding formerly enslaved people, correspondence regarding the Freedmen's Bureau, sharecropping terms offered to individuals formerly enslaved by William Patterson, and bartering and wage documentatio...

Title: Records of enslaved persons
Creator: Torrance, Margaret Allison, 1798-1880
Date Created: 1799, 1867
Subjects--Topical: Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Slave bills of sale, Slave records, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslavement
Description: Of particular interest is an overseer's contract (1862) of Margaret Allison Torance that outlines daily routines for field hands. Notebooks of James G. Torrance list enslaved persons (1836, 1839, 1840, 1844-47). A postwar contract (6/14/1867) bind...

Title: Richard Allison Torrance correspondence
Creator: Torrance, Richard Allison, 1833-1927
Date Created: 1861-07-10, 1865-05-03
Subjects--Topical: Enslavers, Plantation life, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Condolence notes, Cotton trade, War, Visiting cards, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslavement
Description: Reflects viewpoints and lifestyle of a prominent and successful Mecklenburg County planter. Topics includes birth, marriage, illness, death, and similar family concerns; and agriculture. Civil War correspondence reflects North Carolina's involveme...

Title: Wilkes, John--Records of enslaved persons
Creator: Wilkes, John, 1827-1908
Date Created: 1858-11-13, 1865-01-29
Subjects--Topical: Slave bills of sale, Slave trade, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Plantation owners, Slaveholders, Enslavers, Enslavement
Description: Primaily includes bills-of-sale for enslaved individuals bought or sold by John Wilkes. Names of enslaved men, women, and children include Jack, Zeno, Alice, Lucy, Jeff, Antony, Phillis, Alfred, Annis, Leander, Mahalah, Harriet, Henry, Murray, and...

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