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Oral History Interview with Raymond, Eunice, Wayne, and Charles Russell English, December 8, 1999. Interview K-0280. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

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The community's fortunes wane with its tobacco crop

Charles English elaborates on the community's agricultural fortunes. Tobacco has declined, to be replaced by hogs, but the area raises more poultry than pigs. Charles is describing a small community nearly entirely reliant on farming for survival. As tobacco became less reliable a crop, the community started to die.

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Interviewers	Charles Thompson
	Rob Amberg
	Charles Thompson
Interviewees	Raymond English
	Eunice English
	Charles Russell English
	Wayne English
Excerpt Length	0:01:22
Start Time	00:18:28
Stop Time	00:19:50
Subjects	General > COMMUNITY TRANSITIONS > Community Decline Environmental Transformations > AGRICULTURE > Human Communities

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Oral History Interview with Raymond, Eunice, Wayne, and Charles Russell English, December 8, 1999. Interview K-0280. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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