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Interview no. | G-0278 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | G.3. Southern Women: Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South |
Project description | Interviews, conducted between 1979 and 1981 by Emily Herring Wilson, for her book Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South. Overall, Wilson interviewed more than forty older black women in North Carolina and selected twenty-seven for inclusion in the publication. The interviewees include gospel singers, midwives, teachers, ministers, college professors, civil rights organizers, artists, and musicians. |
Date | 26 January 1980 |
Interviewee | Stewart, Carrie McDonnell, 1878- |
Interviewee occupation | Midwives |
Interviewee DOB | 1878 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Wilson, Emily Herring. |
Abstract | Carrie McDonnell Stewart is a midwife born in 1878 as one of ten children. In her interview, she describes farm life as a child and going to school regularly. She discusses attending St. Cyprian’s Episcopal School in Franklin and, at eighteen years old, marrying Joseph Elexander Stewart. Going on to discuss her early married and family life, she recalls their log cabin with a bed and three plates and the additions as their ten children were born at home using doctors or midwives. She goes on to discuss her own experience as a midwife and her husband’s death in 1951. This interview was conducted in part for the book "Hope and Dignity: Older Black women of the South" with text by Emily Herring Wilson, photographs by Susan Mullally, and foreword by Maya Angelou, published in 1983 by Temple University Press. |
Citation | Interview with Carrie McDonnell Stewart by Emily Herring Wilson, 26 January 1980 G-0278 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | G0278_Audio_1 |