SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

19 After the railroads spiring up the town moved to New Pickens*
"Master Liege Alexander had lots of slaves and land* I reckon the
white wife f s children fell heir to the farm land*
"My aunt and grandma cooked for him till he died* They kept him clean
and took care of him like as if his white wife was livingt The colored wife
and her girl waited on the white wife and her children like queens* That is
what papa said#
*Durin f slavery there was stockmen* They was weighed and tested. A man
would rent the stockman and put him in a room with some young women he
wanted to raise children from. Next morning when they come to let him out
the man ask him what he done and he was so glad to get out* Them women
nearly kill him* If he said nothin* they wouldn't have to pay for him*
Them women nearly kill him* Some of the slave owners rented these stockmen.
They didn f t let them work in the field and they kept them fed up good*
n ?ore the Civil War broke out mama said Master Barton hid a half
bushel solid gold and silver coins over the mountains* He had it close to
the spring awhile* Mama had to go by it to tote water to the house + She
said she never bothered it* He said he could trust her and she wouldn't
tell a lie* He took another sack of money over the mountains and the silver-
ware. His wife died during the war* A lot of people died from hearing of
the war — heart failure* I don f t know what become of his money• He lost
it. He may forgot where he hid it* It was after his wife died that he sold
Mama to Jim Alexander's papa.
"The Yankees rode three years over the country in squads and colored
folks didn f t know they was free* I have seen them in their old uniforms
aiding around when I was a child* White folks started talking about freedom
2* OOQ