Lorenzo Ivy excerpt from Hampton and Its Students (1874).
Race relations in the Reconstruction South.
Hampton Institute student and former slave Lorenzo Ivy tells a story about the relationship between his family, his former master, and the Freedmen's Bureau after emancipation.
Lorenzo Ivy
Hampton and Its Students, By Two of Its Teachers, Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow, With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner.
Library of Virginia Staff
1874
Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow
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Hampton, Virginia
William I. Johnson, Jr., WPA/VWP Life History
Oral history
William I. Johnson Jr., was born enslaved and was a butler for the Johnson family of Goochland County and Richmond. He describes slave auctions and slave hiring. He details his Civil War experiences, including how he escaped to Union lines. After the war, Johnson became a successful contractor in Richmond and belonged to numerous fraternal organizations.
Milton T. Randolph, interviewer
Virginia Writers' Project Life Histories, Work Projects Administration of Virginia Records, 1939-1943, Accession 30432. Federal Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
March 28, 1937
CC BY-SA
WPA interview with <a title="William I. Johnson Interview" href="http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=SYS=000506570" target="_blank">William I. Johnson Jr</a>.
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System Number: 000506570
Richmond City and Goochland County, Virginia
W. Family Life History (WPA, Virginia Writers' Project)
Oral history
Includes information on background and education of an unnamed African American lawyer (likely Thomas Calhoun Walker), who lived with his wife, a former teacher, in Gloucester County. He describes his struggles to attend Hampton Institute and his study of law to fight racially motivated injustice. Information about his wife's family, education, and career is also included.
Lucille B. Jayne, interviewer
Virginia Writers' Project Life Histories, Work Projects Administration of Virginia Records, 1939-1943, Accession 30432. Federal Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
ca. April 1939
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WPA Interview with the <a title="W. family interview" href="http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=SYS=000506491" target="_blank">W. family</a>.
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System Number: 000506491
Gloucester County, Virginia
Mary Dangerfield Wallace Life History (WPA, Virginia Writers' Project)
Oral history
Mary Dangerfield Wallace was born during the 1870s. She describes her education and her forty-four years of teaching in public schools, some of which she and later her husband helped found and build.
Margaret A. Jeffries, interviewer
Virginia Writers' Project Life Histories, Work Projects Administration of Virginia Records, 1939-1943, Accession 30432. Federal Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
February 20, 1940
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WPA interview with <a title="Mary D. Wallace interview" href="http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=SYS=000506108" target="_blank">Mary Dangerfield Wallace</a>.
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System Number: 000506108
Culpeper County, Virginia
Lorenzo Ivy Life History (WPA, Virginia Writers' Project)
Oral history
Lorenzo L. Ivy was born in Pittsylvania County at the end of the Civil War. He described the cruel treatment of his enslaved family members and the slave trade. He attended Hampton with Booker T. Washington and graduated in 1875.
Claude W. Anderson, interviewer
Virginia Writers' Project Life Histories, Work Projects Administration of Virginia Records, 1939-1943, Accession 30432. Federal Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
April 28, 1937
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WPA interview with <a title="Lorenzo Ivy interview" href="http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=SYS=000506588" target="_blank">Lorenzo Ivy</a>.
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System Number: 000506588
Danville, Virginia
Isaiah Wallace Life History (WPA, Virginia Writers Project)
Oral history
Isaiah Wallace was one of thirteen children of a formerly enslaved woman. In this interview he describes the difficult times faced by his family after the end of the Civil War. Wallace ran away as a teenager, and after working in different jobs and places, he returned to Culpeper and became a stonemason and plasterer. He helped to found a school for African Americans in the county. Margaret Jeffries states her personal opinion about race at the end of this interview.
Margaret A. Jeffries, interviewer
Virginia Writers' Project Life Histories, Work Projects Administration of Virginia Records, 1939-1943, Accession 30432. Federal Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
March 11, 1940
Library of Virginia
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Virginia Writers' Project interview with <a title="Isaiah Wallace Life History" href="http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=SYS=000506371" target="_blank">Isaiah Wallace</a>.
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System Number: 000506371
Culpeper County, Virginia
Arthur Greene Life History (WPA, Virginia Writers' Project)
Oral history
Arthur Greene was born enslaved in Nottoway County. He describes the treatment of slaves, punishments, meetings, patrollers, fugitive slaves, and conditions of freedpeople after the end of the Civil War.
Susie R. C. Byrd, interviewer
Virginia Writers' Project Life Histories, Work Projects Administration of Virginia Records, 1939-1943, Accession 30432. Federal Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
April 16, 193[7]
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WPA interview with <a title="Arthur Greene interview" href="http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=SYS=000506594" target="_blank">Arthur Greene</a>.
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System Number: 000506594
Nottoway County and Petersburg, Virginia
Annie Wallace Life History (WPA, Virginia Writers' Project)
Oral history
Annie Wallace was the daughter of an enslaved woman and a white man. She described her youth before, during and after the Civil War. She and her late husband, a blacksmith, raised a large family, sometimes under very poor conditions. Although she received little education, Wallace made sure her children attended school.
Margaret A. Jeffries, interviewer
Virginia Writers' Project Life Histories, Work Projects Administration of Virginia Records, 1939-1943, Accession 30432. Federal Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
March 18, 1940
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WPA interview with <a title="Annie Wallace interview" href="http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=find-c&ccl_term=SYS=000506388" target="_blank">Annie Wallace</a>.
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System Number: 000506388
Culpeper County, Virginia