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  • Tags: slavery

This collection includes the "David Vance Estate Sale Announcement" and "Scan of Estate Sale Document Listing Enslaved Persons." The latter document lists the sale of Venice, Leah and her children, and Ann to M. M. Vance for a total of $1327.00.

Information about enslaved people who lived at the Vance Birthplace. Census records are often of little help when researching enslaved people. The earliest records only count the number of slaves, with no regard to age or gender. Although the details…

This collection includes newspaper clippings and a certificate of death of Annie Daugherty, one of the main midwives for the town of Black Mountain in the early 1900s.

This collection includes newspaper clippings and oral history interviews concerning Sarah Gudger, an African American woman from the Swannanoa Valley who claimed to live 122 years. The collection also includes her obituary from October 20, 1938.

Transcription of oral history interview of Katherine Debrow from 2002.

This collection has general information on African Americans in the Swannanoa Valley. It includes a list of names of both men and women who have played an important role in the area. These names include Melody Gardner, Lynn Gardner, Sharon Harper,…

This collection includes various academic documents about African Americans in the Swannanoa Valley, many of which concern African American women. The collection has a lot of information about the history of the black community in terms of schools…

This collection includes various newspaper articles on African Americans from the Swannanoa Valley. Many of these articles concern African American women, including Inez Daugherty, Lib Harper, Lizzie Littlefield Wells, Addie Burgin, Jessie Lytle,…

Annie May (Mae) Bolden is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith in 1987 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow black oral history project. Bolden talks right away about her grandmothers, then proceeds to moving from South Carolina, her father,…

" Susie Bryson is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on April 28, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow black oral history project. Bryson talks about schools before they were integrated, the black church being where Robinson Hall is…
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