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DARE Interview : Brooklyn, Connecticut; Primary Informant CT020
Goldberg, David
1969
Dictionary of American Regional English
Informant Data:
CT020: Black; female; age: 82 (old); education: college; community type: village
Media Files:
Arthur the Rat. Speaker: CT020 (4:38) [Frequent loud road noise]
Full Interview 1 (Tape 0209-S1).
Content:
00:15 Tells of Miss Prudence Crandall's private school for Blacks in 1832, and town resistance
05:20 School cut off from supplies by ostracism, well poisoned, teacher's house destroyed
08:40 Miss Crandall moves West (with husband?). Pension from town years later
11:25 Black education in early 19th century. Talking to people who knew Miss Crandall
15:00 Her work as historian of Miss Crandall, interviewing acquaintances and tracing places she lived
19:15 Miss Crandall a spiritualist, Informant's interaction with other spiritualists
24:30 Psychic experiences, dead sister helps her to find a cave when she needs one
27:10 Her Indian blood, uncertainty about whether psychic power comes from God or devil
30:10 Danger of wishing ill on others, of black magic
32:20 Tape end
Full Interview 2 (Tape 0209-S2).
Content:
00:10 Use of psychic power, man protecting house with magic powder and wishing a judge dead
03:35 Father was a slave, came north with Union Army. Grandmother was an Indian
06:50 Role of faith in her life; asking cat for food and it comes
10:50 Power of animals, time she was attacked by a pack of dogs
15:50 Arthur the Rat
20:40 Family uncomfortable with Indian heritage, so she doesn't know what tribe she is
24:30 Stories of her grandmother's
27:35 Cheated by her lawyer out of compensation after dog attack
30:00 Story of an adulterer shunned in strict church
32:30 Tape end
Arthur the Rat
Full Interview 1
Full Interview 2
Publication Details
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Fieldworker
Goldberg, David
Date
1969
Publisher
Dictionary of American Regional English
Language
English
Collection
Fieldwork Recordings—Dictionary of American Regional English
Subjects
Prudence Crandall
Education
History
Spiritualism
Psychic power
Family history
Faith
Animals
Windham County (Connecticut)
Brooklyn (Connecticut)
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