Authors

Moses Asbury

Interviewer

Mickey Ray Knowle

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Description

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Mr. Moses Asbury discusses: his extensive employment history (which includes livestock trading, land trading, road building, and farm work); his family; his life on a farm; the Cleveland Panic (the depression of the 1930s); the Great Depression; raising animals for meat; and other topics.

Publication Date

1974

Identifier

OH64-676

Type

Text

Library of Congress Subjects

Asbury, Moses, 1883- -- Autobiography.
Farm life -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.
Roads -- Design and construction -- Oral histories.
Depression -- 1929 -- United States -- Oral histories.
African-Americans -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.

Comments

Interview is included in the Marshall University Oral History Collection. The index number is OH64-676.

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