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  ''Long in dem times de slaves sometimes runned away from deir cruel marsters an'' dey''d go ter dis nigger at de mill


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id: 18485
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  "You beat me an'' you kick me an'' you black my eyes, I''m gonna take dis butcher knife an'' hew you down to my size, You mark my words


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id: 19446
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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  My mother raised us a heap like old times. "Grandma said their something to eat got mighty slim in war times and "I stayed round the house with the white folks and didn''t know what "Yes sir, Boss Man, I kin tell you all er bout de old slabery times, en "All I know about freedom was Old Man Henry Bibb come out and told us we young mistress little girl bout seven or eight years old. coming in from the field old master called his slaves and told us we was neber knowed dat er Yankee wus er man jes lak my white folks till I seed would tell him, ''You''re my master.'' They said during the War the old man "White people were pretty good to the old colored folks right after the "Colored folks in slavery times didn''t know how old they was.

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 3


id: 19932
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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  De chilluns called dem de ''blue mans.'' Mah white folks wuz named Missis en don'' steal fum dem." I stayed wid mah Missis fer a long time "One story mah daddy useter tell us wuz ''bout a slave named Pommpy. "W''en we all wuz freed we had nuthin en no place ter go, so dat mah kum wid de hoss several men ''peahrd en tole Fedd dat dey wuz gonna mah Missis sum body wuz at de do''er wantin'' ter know whar mah Marster Soon as de chillens, wuz seven y''ars ole, dey started dem ter "I wuz tole dat sum ob de white peeples wuz so mean ter dere slaves urthur boys en hit wuz a long thing lak a slip dat kum ter our knees. "Durin'' slavery times de slaves would hab ter git fum dere marster a a slave got whupped hit wuz cose dey disobey dere white folks en de

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XV, Tennessee Narratives


id: 18485
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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  "Marster was sho'' good ''bout seein'' dat his Niggers had plenty to eat "Slaves all went to church wid deir white folkses ''cause dere warn''t no wid our good old Marster to look atter us and see dat us had what us ''cause our white folkses day sho'' did take good keer of deir slaves. Mammy said dat most times when slaves got married dey jus'' jumped de preacher man''s house and got married, us come right on here to dis "Dem days it was de custom for marsters to hire out what slaves dey had died, and a long time atter dat us kept on wukin'' for Old Marster. Betsey, and dey moved up to de big house wid old Miss atter Marse Ike jay birds.'' ''Bout dat time a white man come along and told dem Niggers did know how many slaves Marster had, but dat old plantation was plumb

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 4


id: 18484
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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  wants to hear ''bout dem old days dat you loves so good to tell about." de larnin'' dat dem two good old folks gimme is done stayed right wid me "Marster was too old to wuk when dey sot us free, so for a long time us days, not even for de white folks, but dem old cord springs went a long "Slaves all et up at de big house in dat long old kitchen. slaves stayed right on wid de Marster; dat was all dey knowed to do. "Old Marster John McCree was sho'' a good white man, I jus'' tells you de "Long ''bout dat time dey wuz killin'' hawgs on de plantation, en it wuz tell uv it, but Mammy said dat when slaves did run away, dey wuz cotched and Old Mist''ess sho'' wuz powerful good when dey Niggers got sick.

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 3


id: 22976
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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  dat way ''fore I wuz borned dey uster strip dem niggers start naked an'' I reckon I wuz twelve years old when my mammy come ter de house an'' Yes ''um, I reckon I wuz glad ter git free, case I knows den dat I won''t He says right low dat dey done took marster Jordan ter de Marster Charlie an'' Missus Mary wuz good ter de hundred slaves what tell ''bout marsters dat when dere slaves runned away dey''d set de You wuz axin'' ''bout de slave sales, an'' I want ter tell you dat I has "Way long time atter dat ole Marster Jim come ter visit his niggers, an'' wuz de way dey got married dem days; de pore white folks done de same We went wid de white folks to church; dey were good ter us, dat''s de I knows dat de Yankees wus good ter de niggers but dey warn''t so

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1


id: 31219
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
txt: ./txt/31219.txt
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  De ole missus wus right nice ter ever''body dat day an'' of dem lived ter be named, dat wus Hyacinth, an'' he died ''fore he was a de McGee place got married de marster always said dat dere duty wus ter "Dere wus ''bout fifty slaves on de plantation, an'' dey wurked from "No slaves ever run away from our plantation cause marster wus good to "Yes, suh, de wus'' I knows ''bout slavery times is what dey tols me ain''t had much time, ter do us any damage case dey wus too busy atter "When freedom come mother and father stayed on wid marster cause dey every three slaves who wushed dey wus back wid dere marsters. "Dey said dat Mr. Nat''s oberseer wus kinder mean ter de slaves, an'' "When de Yankees come Marse wus off ter de war so dey tuck de place wid

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2


id: 22166
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
txt: ./txt/22166.txt
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  "De slaves went to church wid dey marsters. Long ''fore dat time, one of dem white chillun got married and ground; only dem Niggers was in dat field to wuk and dey sho'' did have ''till dey wuz 18 years old." Margaret''s father went to the war with tell ''bout one man named Si what run ''way wid dem yankees when dey come bring a steamer down dere wid a red flag, ''cause dey knowed dem folks laughs when us calls ''em ''good old days,'' and dey wants to know how come gadgets to wuk wid lak dey got now, but I still calls ''em de good old "My Daddy said slaves went to de white folks'' church ''til dey got some "Dere didn''t many folks die out back in dem good old days, ''cause dey "Honey, back in dem good old days us went to church wid our white folks.

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 2


id: 25154
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4


id: 13579
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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  Mrs. Bowman said she never knew want in slave times, as she has known it One day the old mistress caught a slave boy with a book, she "When I was a little bitsy child and still lived with Mr. Gardner," said the old man, "I saw many of the slaves beaten to death. Mrs. Cave said that her master''s father had many young women slaves and "We lived in a cabin at the slave quarters and mother worked in the mother married a negro ex-slave of Ford George and bore children for slaves of "Old Master Stone", but his father was owned by another man, Mrs. Richardson said that the slaves, that worked in the Master''s house, Her mother, a slave hand, worked on the farm until her young master, The day the mistress and master came and told the slaves they were free

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume V, Indiana Narratives


id: 11709
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
txt: ./txt/11709.txt
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  fo'' him de white folks couldn''t hab lived in dis country, de negroes wuz "Our white folks took us to Texas durin'' of the War. I think my old "Mother got so she wasn''t able to work in the field several years before everything we know, good and bad, we got from the white folks. "Mama come and got me long time after that and I didn''t want to go nor little niggers were kept in one house when the old folks were working in master he worked all time in the shop making things jess like he needed, War, he went far and near to work for the white folks. "The way my mother and father happened to meet--my old master hired my got a daughter over in North Little Rock that is about fifty years old. father died in slavery times, but mother lived several years after.

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 6


id: 11255
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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  I don''t know how long they stayed after the old man died. and tell us tales bout old times like you want to know. old folk were working the larger young uns mongst the children would "Folks like me what got children think the way they do is all right. "Papa run the gin on Mr. Sprangle''s place, then he went to war, come "I reckon I lived in Arkansas about thirty years before I left and come "Mama didn''t live only till I was about three years old, so I don''t know "What little I know, an old white woman taught me. for the white folks how I come to know so much bout it all. "According to my old father and mother, the Patteroles went and got the "I don''t remember what the old man said about freedom coming. My mother said that an old white man came through the quarters one

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 1


id: 11552
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
txt: ./txt/11552.txt
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  "The slaves lived in good quarters, each house was weather-boarded and "As a slave I worked on the farm with other small boys thinning corn, "The poor white people in Charles County were worse off than the slaves; Father and mother of a large family that was reared on a small farm "My father worked on a small farm with no other slaves, but our family. "We had 60 slaves on the plantation, each family housed in a cabin built "The farm was very large, the slaves worked from sunup to sundown, no "We went to the white church on Sunday, up in the slave gallery where slave days my father gave me money and good clothes to wear. between the slaves, the free people, the patrollers and other white "One time a slave ran away and was seen by a colored man, who was

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VIII, Maryland Narratives


id: 11544
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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  we colored folks ain''t got work we can do all the time to live on. "One time when an old white man come along who wanted to preach, the He liked coming to Arkansas because he got to ride on the train a long "After the war I used to work in the house for my white folks--for Dr. Bob Williams way up there in the country on the river. Mama and grandma said Master Coon and old Mistress Mollie was good to the war we stayed on with the white folks who owned my father and worked "I member one time when old master wasn''t at home the Yankees come and I come out here to Arkansas with my mothers old master and mistress and "Mother said she would run hide every time the Yankee men come. "I heard my mother say that in slavery times the man worked all day with

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 5


id: 11485
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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  On the plantations the slaves usually had a house of their master was raised like this, he has written to me several times, since I "I was about twenty-two years old when I married, and I have raised six Told by Bill Simms, ex slave, age 97 years, Ottawa, Kansas. "I lived on the farm with my mother, and my master, whose name was "A man who owned ten slaves was considered wealthy, and if he got hard "The slaves usually lived in a two-room house made of native lumber. When a slave got too old to work they would give him a small cabin on I worked most of the time for three years off and on, hauling I returned home to my old master, who had stayed there with my mother. Missouri, if a slave wanted to marry a woman on another plantation he

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VI, Kansas Narratives


id: 12297
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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  money called "shin plasters" which was used during the Civil War. The slaves were not allowed to attend schools of any kind; and school A few years before he left to enter the war the slave owner came into slavery days, but he lived on the same plantation for many years until slave, 108 years ago at Richmond, Virginia, on the plantation of a man ex-slave, born in Suwannee County, Florida in 1851, fourteen years prior As to plantation life, Dorsey said that the slaves lived in quarters Willis remembers the time when a slave on the plantation escaped and do this, he would let a slave work all day on his plantation, and live plantation, the master would delight in telling his slaves that if they Plantation Life: The slaves lived in cabins called quarters, which were

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume III, Florida Narratives


id: 11422
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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  "My mother, she was sold from her father when she was four years old. nothing but work in slave times and you got whipped about that. When I come home, I made a lot o'' money for old miss. home to see my old mother.'' ''Tell you what,'' says she, ''I ain''t got nuff knowed or heard of a war, I saw a lot of the funniest wagons coming up "My father died in slave times and my mother died the fourth year after "I remember one time the white folks had some stock tied out, and I know "I been in Pine Bluff bout four years--till I got disabled to work. time of the War. The old man got on his horse and flew. "When New Year day come the white man locked me up in a room in his "Mother and grandma didn''t have a hard time like my father said he come

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 7


id: 11920
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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  little negro slave boy living on the farm and he had heard quite a bit two-year old negro child brought about $1,500 in the slave market, an A slave owner, in West Virginia, bought a thirteen year old black girl At this time the slave girl was about twenty-one years of age, and Dr. Davis took her home to Scott County, Virginia where he married her to experiences and observation of an old negro lady who was a slave, Mrs. Amelia Jones, living in North London, Kentucky. The old negro lady slaves would sit in the door way of their little when the old master got mad at his slaves for not working hard enough he they lived in the big house--otherwise in Slave quarters, little cabins old negro slave who, after the close of the Civil War lived near Mrs. Sloan''s mother.

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VII, Kentucky Narratives


id: 13700
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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  "Fore I left the old county, I member the boss man, Henry Grady, come by "The times is hard fo old folks cause they ain''t able to work and heap lived wid them white folks till bout nine years and I married. The old folks ain''t got no money an the young ones She said her old miss wouldn''t let her come day when Jessie come to de house to let dat baby suck, Mr. Harvey think "There was an old white man used to come out and teach papa how to read can remember my mama said her old master, Mat Fields, sent my father and six months old when I was born and mama said old master come in and tell "Right after freedom, my folks worked on old man Jim Burdyne''s farm. "Right after the War, my mother worked--washed--for an old white man.

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2


id: 13602
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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  rainy spell come and de grass got to growin'' fast, dey wukked dem slaves and if folks lives right dey sho'' is gwine to have a good restin'' place evvy meal, and dey sho was pretty hangin'' dar in dat big old fireplace. "Old Marster was powerful good to his Niggers when dey got sick. "Marse Henry kept a lot of slaves to wuk his big old plantation whar he Nigger 12 or 14 years old dem days was big as a white child 17 or 18 house, an'' us didn''t know nothin'' ''bout no jail dat day an'' time. "And jus'' a few days ago a old man come to see me thinkin'' dat he wuz Marster''s plantation; dey rested up a day and dat wuz all. When slaves got too old to wuk, dey took keer of de chillun in a house Dey lived at home on dat big old plantation.

title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1


