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my name's matt whatley i'm a native of randolph county morning at parole as far as my connection to this award as i mean i feel like it's surrounded me my entire life i live in a house and front window that was bill making thirty five by lush a coffin who was a child of nantucket quakers and his family was heavily involved in the underground railroad and he i started a textile mill explicitly as an alternative investment to people who didn't want to put their money into slavery county is notorious locally for its opposition to this they were against it to start with voted heavily heavily against forty five to one in february eighteen sixty one when china had a referendum on whether or not to sustain when johnson surrender that better place the next day if they hadn't surrendered sherman's orders were to advance toward <unk> because that's where johnson's troops were there
to record lows right up north of my house and if it continued another week a factory in probably my house would have been burned but i think about it every time you know i work on my house which i'm trying to restore now for twenty five years
Series
NC Voices
Episode
The Civil War Story Modules
Clip
Mac Whatley
Contributing Organization
WUNC (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/515-bv79s1mf32
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Description
Series Description
This NC Voices series examined how the Civil War affects people in North Carolina 150 years after the start of the war.
Clip Description
Mac Whatley discusses his house in Franklinville, built in 1835 by Elisha Coffin, who was heavily involved in the Underground Railroad.
Broadcast Date
2011-06-00
Asset type
Clip
Topics
History
Rights
Copyright North Carolina Public Radio. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Media type
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Duration
00:01:31
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Credits
Guest: Paisie, Joe
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North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC
Identifier: NCV9901-10 (WUNC)
Format: Audio CD
Duration: 1:29
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Chicago: “NC Voices; The Civil War Story Modules; Mac Whatley,” 2011-06-00, WUNC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed December 8, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-515-bv79s1mf32.
MLA: “NC Voices; The Civil War Story Modules; Mac Whatley.” 2011-06-00. WUNC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. December 8, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-515-bv79s1mf32>.
APA: NC Voices; The Civil War Story Modules; Mac Whatley. Boston, MA: WUNC, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-515-bv79s1mf32