SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

*In them days, if we did something wrong, anybody could whip us and
if we f d go tell our folks we get another whippin 1 *
*After freedom my parents stayed there and worked by the day* They
didn f t have no privilege of sellin 1 the cotton though*
"I didn't start to farm till I was f bout twelve years old* They
started me bust in• out the middles till I learnt how and then they put the
plowin 1 in my hands*
"White people been pretty good to me 'cause I done what they told me*
*I went to school a little 'long about f 70« I learnt how to read and
kept on till I could write a little*
"I used to vote 'til they stopped us* I used to vote right along, but
I stopped foolin' with it* 'Course we can vote in the president election
but I got so I couldn't see what ticket I was votin*, so I stopped foolin'
with it*
work*"
"I farmed till 'bout '94, then I worked at the compress and brick
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