SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

*I ain't never been to school much* When schools got numerous in
Mississippi they had me behind a plow handle*
"Mrs. Jeter made me mad once and I quit* My first husband was a porter
on the railroad and I got on the train and went to Memphis with him*
ff 0ne time he come back from a trip to Bine Bluff and handed me a little
package* I opened it and it was a note from Mrs* Jeter and a piece of corn
bread* She said, 'Now, Mary, you see what I've had to eat* I want you to
come back^' So I went back and stayed 'til she died* 4nd now I f m workin'
for her daughter, Mrs* McEwen* Mrs* Jeter used to say, 'Mary, I know you're
not a Arkansas woman 'cause you din't got a lazy bone in your body*' "
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