SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

on time and didn f t steal nothing* But my master and missis never allowed
anybody to whip their slaves*
What the Slaves Expected and Got
"I don f t know what the slaves was expecting to get, but my parents
when they left Ben See's place had nothing but the few clothes in the house*
They didn't give em nothing* They had some clothes all right, enough to
cover themselves* I don't know what kind or how much because I wasn't old
enough to know all into such details*
••When we left Ben See's plantation and went down into Alabama, we left
there on a wagon* Daddy was driving four big steers hitched to it* There
was just three of us children* The little boy my mother was schooling then,
it died* It died when we went down betwixt New Falla and Montgomery,
Alabama* I don't know when we left Alabama nor how long we stayed there*
After he was told he was free, I know he didn't make nare another crop on
Ben See's plantation*
1865-1938
"My father, when he left from where we was freed, he went to hauling
logs for a sawmill, and then he farmed* He done that for years, driving
these old oxen* He mostly did this logging and my mother did the farming*
*I can't tell you what kind of time it was right after the Civil War
because I was too young to notice* All our lives I had plenty to eat*
When we first came to Arkansas we stopped at old Mary Jones down in Rice-
ville, and then we went down on the Gates Farm at Biscoe* Then we went
from there to Atkins up in Pope County* No, he went up in the sand hills
and bought him a home and then he went up into Atkins * Of course, I was a
married woman by that time*
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