Oral history interview with Annie Bell Williams Cheatham, March 21, 1995
Subtitle: interview Q-0015, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: McCoy, James Eddie (James Edward), 1942- interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; African American women; African Americans; Children of sharecroppers; Sharecroppers; Education; Social conditions; Slavery
Other titles: Interview Q-0015, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Annie Bell Williams Cheatham, March 21, 1995; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Annie Bell Cheatham, an 84 year-old black woman and a long-time resident of Oxford, North Carolina, talks about her childhood as the daughter of a sharecropper, the limited educational opportunities open to her, and the many, many stories of slavery that were passed down to her by older relatives. She gives short answers through much of the interview and her informal conversational style is reflective of her familiarity with her interviewer, James Eddie McCoy, a fellow Oxford resident. The most detailed parts of this interview have to do with the second- and third-hand slavery stories on which she was reared and how these served as life lessons for navigating North Carolina's racial geography.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on October 26, 2007).

Interview participants: Annie Bell Williams Cheatham, interviewee; James Eddie McCoy, Jr., interviewer.

Duration: 01:12:37.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series Q, African American life and culture, interview Q-0015, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 49 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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