SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

"Papa said the Yankees made all the slaves fight they could run across.
Sons kept hid in the woods. Seem like from way he told bout it they wanted
freedom but they didn f t want to go to war*
"When we heard bout Arkansas being so rich and a new country, we wanted
to coins. Some white and some colored come. We come to Aubrey, Arkansas*
\ie got six living, five dead children. I been here fourteen years (at
Brinkley). I hired out to cook in Mississippi but I wash and iron and work
in the field till I bout wore out. My husband in a terrible condition. He
picked some cotton. He got rheumatism in his legs*
fl We own a little home bout a mile from town and a pig. I wish I could
get a cow. I ain f t got the money to buy one. Jess can f t get one no way*
We had a fine garden. Two of us get #10 and commodities* - Times so far
this year been good. When it gets cold times may be hard. Times better
this year than last or it been for a long time.
voting* *
"I didn't know I could vote* Guess my husband done my part of the
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