SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

Some woman out here in Arkansas recognized the horse by his brand and wrote
to him about it* He came out and got the horse# We had gone by that
time*
Visiting the (craves
"Ben See used to take the little darkies to the cemetery and show them
where their master and missis was laying* He never would sell none of his
father 1 s slaves*
The Slave Block
"He would buy other slaves and sell them though* He used to buy little
kids that couldn't walk* Maybe some big white man would come that would
want to buy a nigger* He used to have servants in the yard and he would
have the slaves he f d bought saved up# One of the yard servants would catch
a little nigger with his head all knotty and filled with twigs* He would
swinge the hair and the little nigger would yell, but he wouldn't be hurt*
"He had a block built up high just like a meat block out in the yard*
He would have the yard man bring the little niggers out and put them on
this block* I don f t know nothing about their parents, who they were nor
where they were* All I know he would have this child there what he'd done
bought*
"If there would be about five or six come in, here's this nigger
sitting up here* Here's a lot of folks wait in' to buy him* One would say,
'I bid so much* 1 Another would say, 'I bid so much*' That would go on till
the biddin' got as high as it would go* Then the little nigger would go to
the highest bidder if the bid suited master*
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