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Oral history interview with Thomas and Elberta Hudson, December 18, 1999 interview K-0283, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). Cover Image E-book

Oral history interview with Thomas and Elberta Hudson, December 18, 1999 interview K-0283, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Interview K-0283, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) (other title)
Interview with Thomas and Elberta Hudson, December 18, 1999 (portion title)
Hudson, Thomas (Thomas Samuel) (interviewee). Amberg, Rob (interviewer). Hudson, Elberta (interviewee). Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956- (interviewer). Southern Oral History Program. (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary: The Hudsons, both dedicated Christians, saw the presence of God during and after Hurricane Floyd. They explain that God helped them escape the floodwaters and oversaw an astonishing flood of generosity in the storm's aftermath, but He also used the flood to teach painful lessons about materialism. Elberta believes firmly that God sent the flood expressly for these purposes; Thomas thinks human error caused the flooding. The Hudsons also detail their escape from rising floodwaters and some of the recovery efforts they witnessed and took part in. It might be useful to read this interview with Bert Pickett's, as the two interviews present different religious reactions to the hurricane. There are a number of potentially useful, but small, details that were not included in the excerpts but might be useful to researchers. These are primarily blow-by-blow accounts of incidents in the flood's aftermath.

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  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2005.

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General Note:
Duration: 01:21:07.
Interview participants: Thomas Hudson, interviewee; Elberta Hudson, interviewee; Rob Amberg, interviewer; Charles Thompson, interviewer.
Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc. and Natalia Smith. Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Seth Kotch.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
Title from menu page (viewed on Oct. 11, 2007).
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Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 182.8 kilobytes, 148.5 megabytes.
Original Version Note:
Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series K, Southern communities, interview K-0283, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Original transcript: 48 p.
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the University of North Carolina Library supported the electronic publication of this interview.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Subject:
Hudson, Elberta Interviews
Hudson, Thomas (Thomas Samuel) Interviews
United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency.
African Americans North Carolina White Stocking Religion
Disaster relief North Carolina White Stocking
Flood damage North Carolina White Stocking
Floods North Carolina White Stocking
Hurricane Floyd, 1999
Rescue work North Carolina White Stocking
North Carolina Race relations 20th century
Pender County (N.C.)
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