SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

uilded on to the end of ito The log end was the one lived in during
slavery times and the plank end was built since * That gal there of mine
was born in the log end* There were round log houses and sawed log houses*
The sawed log houses was built out of logs that had been squared after the
tree had been cut down, and the round log houses was built out of logs left
just like they was when they was trees* There 1 s been quite an improvement
in the houses since I was a kid*
Pood
"I have heard my father and mother talking among themselves and their
friends, but they never did tell me nothing about slave times* They never
did sit down and talk to me about it* When they f d sit down and start
talkin f , it would always be, f Now you children run on out and play while we
old folks sit here and talk* 1 But from time to time, I would be sitting on
the floor playing by myself and they would be talking f mongst themselves
and I would hear them say this or that* But I never heered them say what
they at in slave times*
Work
"My father worked in the juniper swamp in North Carolina, like I told
youo I think I heard my mother say 3he cooked* Most I ever heard them say
tfas whan they would get with some one else and each would talk about his
master*
Cruelties
W I heard my mother say that her mistress used to take a fork and stick
it in her head—jog it up and down against her head* I don f t know how hard
&Q punched her* My mother was very gray—all her hair was gray and she
wasn't old enough for that* I reckon that was why*
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