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Interview no. | U-0744 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | U.19. Long Civil Rights Movement: Breaking New Ground |
Project description | Interviews, 2011-2012, conducted for the Breaking New Ground: A History of American Farm Owners Since the Civil War project. This project was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and was coordinated by Adrienne Petty (of the City College of New York) and Mark Schultz (of Lewis University in Illinois) with assistance from Jacquelyn Hall. Interviews were conducted by two cohorts of research fellows and centered on African American farmers', landowners', and descendants' political, social, and economic experiences in the American South from the Civil War onward. |
Date | 31 May 2011 |
Interviewee | Samuel, Ozell, 1939- |
Interviewee occupation | Farmers |
Interviewee DOB | 1939 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Stephens, Bridget Dion, 1990- |
Abstract | Ozell Samuel was born 16 March 1939 and raised on farmland “four miles down Black Jack Road, two miles to the left”, from where he currently lives now in Georgia. He is proud of the fact that his childhood neighborhood was basically owned by his entire family and other African American farm owners. This interview consisted of an abundance of information which is pertinent to the overall goal of the Breaking New Ground Project. All of the information collected from Samuel was relevant to the massive objective of collecting oral interviews which are intended to unearth the history of black farm owning families from as early as the twentieth century to the present. Topics of discussion included: background of family tree; information regarding how his family's farmland was acquired; financial situations which caused the family to lose their land; allotment system; crops which were planted; how much profit one could gain from the selling of a particular crop; specifically where crops were sold; the community he grew up in; what landowning meant to him. |
Citation | Interview with Ozell Samuel by Bridget Stephens, 31 May 2011 U-0744, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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