- Collection:
- Georgia Folklore Collection
- Title:
- Video of Mabel Cawthorn, Part 5, Carnesville, Georgia, 1986 May 22
- Creator:
- Georgia Folklore Society
- Date of Original:
- 1986-05-22
- Subject:
- Women folk musicians--Georgia--Carnesville
Banjo players--Georgia--Carnesville
Racism--Georgia--Carnesville
Race relations--Georgia--Carnesville
Georgia State Prison
Women prisoners--Georgia--Milledgeville
Marijuana--Law and legislation--Georgia--Carnesville
Georgia. Bureau of Investigation
Cotton manufacture--South Carolina
Textile mills--South Carolina
Distilling, Illicit--South Carolina
Distilling, Illicit--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Franklin County, Carnesville, 34.36983, -83.23516
- Medium:
- field recordings
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video contains offensive language. Video of Mabel Cawthorn at home, part 5 of 5. Cawthorn talks about her working life, working primarily in cotton mills. She could run two spools in the cotton mills, when most people could only run one. She also plowed mules and picked blackberries and sold them for income. She talks about her arrest for selling marijuana to an undercover Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent, and serving an 11-month sentance at the state prison Hardwick, Georgia. She describes her experience at the prison, and the people she met. A former husband, who was an alcoholic, made moonshine.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:ugabma_gfc_gfc-2133
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ugabma/gfc/do:gfc-2133
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 film : circa 22 minutes
- Original Collection:
- Georgia Folklore Collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
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