SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

"Marse Ben was goin' and Miss Susan say, 'Virginia, if
vou think he ain ! t goin 1 come hack you ought to kiss him good-
bye* 1 I said, ! I ain f t goin* to kiss no white man. 1
!l Miss Fanny went up the ladder and sot rite on the roof
and watched the soldiers goin* by* Yes'm* Old master whipped
me with a little peach stick cause I let Frankie - we called her
Frankie - go up the ladder* I said I couldn ! t stop her cause
she said if I told her papa, she and Becky goin f to whip me*
He whipped Miss Fanny« Old miss come in and say, f Ain ! t you
goin 1 whip this nigger? 1 She Was mean as the devil* Oh, God,
yes. She so mean she didn't know what to do* But old master
kep her down* You know some of these redheaded women, they
just as devilish as they can be* We had some neighbors, Mrs*
Davis and Mrs* Daniels and old miss would he out there on the
lawn quarrelin* till it was just like a fog* Us niggers would
be out there listenin 1 *
ff But I was always treated good* You know if I had been
beat over the head I couldn't recollect things now. My head
ain f t been cracked up. Nother thing, I always been easy con-
trolled*
n I never went to school a day* After we was freed we
stayed right on the Murphy place* They paid us and we worked
on the shares* That's the reason I say I done better when I
was a slave* lf
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