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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Wilse Frazier Memoir, Ms2009-118, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The Wilse Frazier Memoir was donated to Special Collections in 2001.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Wilse Frazier Memoir commenced and was completed in August 2009.

Biographical Note

Wilse Frazier was born an enslaved person around 1840 and worked for the majority of the later years of his life on the former plantation "The Woodlands" near Clopper, Maryland. Frazier lived to the age of 110, passing away around 1949.

Robert Schmidt Fulghum is a retired professor of Microbiology and Medicine at Eastern Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Fulghum and his cousin Helen Caulfield Madine Gregory authored the memoir.

Scope and Content

This collection contains a memoir written by Robert Schmidt Fulghum and Helen Caulfield Madine Gregory titled, "Wilse Frazier: Remembrances of a Former Slave." The memoir details the later years of Mr. Frazier's life as he worked at "The Woodlands," a former plantation near Clopper, Maryland. The memoir also describes the authors' relationships with Wilse Frazier, as well as Frazier's daily routine. In addition to the four pages of text, this memoir contains color photocopies of pictures and a bibliography.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged by material type.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• African Americans -- History
• Biographies (literary works)
• Frazier, Wilse, c.1840-1949

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the Wilse Frazier Memoir by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).