Interview with Rev. W.C. Trotter about Grandmother who was Angolian slave, circa 1972

Trotter, Dr. W.L., Interview re: 117 year old great grandmother who remembers being kidnapped in Angola and brought to U.S. in 1795. Side 1 continued on Side 2

Trotter, W. C.
Mitchell, Henry H.

1970/1974

1970-1979

Dr. Henry Mitchell interviews Rev. W.C. Trotter, pastor of Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist church in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They discuss Rev. Trotters grandmother who was a slave born in Angola, Africa. Rev. Trotter explains how his grandmother was kidnapped from Africa and discusses her African religious beliefs and practices. He also discusses her stories of the ride on the slave boat from Africa to Virginia and her slave labor on a Virginia tobacco plantation.

African Americans--Religion
Theology--Study and teaching
African Americans--Education
African American scholars

sound recording

audio/mpeg

audiotapes

Martin Luther King Fellows In Black Religious Studies, Inc. Collection

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:048

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Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

Georgia--Atlanta

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.048:0049

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