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This collection about Aggy, one of Vance's slaves, includes David Vance Sr.'s Will of 1813, a letter from Mira M. Vance to Margaret, and Priscilla Vance's Will of 1835. In David Vance Sr.'s will, he explains what to do with his slave men and women…

The document about the slave Venus in this collection is actually a story of Venus from the Clement Dowd biography. It is one page 13 of Life of Vance. Dowd describes Venus as the "warm-hearted old servant who helped rear the children." A footnote…

The first document in this collection is a book entitled Holston Methodism. Pages 206-209 of the book talk about the Vances and page 209 addresses Leah and Sandy Erwin. The second document in this collection is the Cohabitation Records of Leah and…

Eliza Jane Coward Thomas is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 6, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Thomas was born on Long Branch in Cullowhee in 1893. She talks about her childhood in Jackson…

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…

Often excluded and invisible from the histories of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, those of African-American descent contributed much to the physical and cultural environment of these highlands. Those who were credited as being responsible for…

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…

This collection includes various newspaper clippings concerning the African American community. African American women mentioned in this collection include Inez Daugherty, Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden, Hazel Turner, Lucy Herring, and others.

This collection includes various newspaper clippings concerning African American history. African American women mentioned in this collection include Sarah Gudger, Kat Debrow, Lucy S. Herring, Inez Daugherty, and Oralene Graves.
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