SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

n lity mother used to tell me how they used to hide behind trees so the
boss man couldn't see em when they was prayin' and at night put out the
light and turn the pot down*
"I went to school in Tennessee* I never will forget it* I had a
white teacher* He was in the War and he had a leg shot off* I went
through the sixth grade and was ready for the seventh Ray's Arithmetic* I
walked four miles there and four miles back—eight miles a day*
n I can remember too when my mother and father was baptized* I know
mama come out of the water a shoutin'* 0hf that was good times then* I
felt better when I was under my mother cause when I married my life was
over* I raised about ten children*
"I remember when the Ku Klux come to my sister's house lookin' for
her husband* I know I was in the bed and I raised up* I was scared you
1010 w<
When I hear some colored folks say they wish the old slavery times
was back, I just knows they is lazy* They don't want any responsibility* 1
2.
36