SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

»|fhere was I horn, ma*am ? Why it*s my understanding
that it was Catawba @ounty, Forth Carolina* As far as I
remember, Newton was the nearest town* I was horn on a place
belonging to Jaoob Sigmans* I can just barely remember my
mother* I was not 11 when they sold me away from her, I
can just barely remember her*
N But I do remember how she used to take us children
and kneel down in front of the fireplace and pray, She*d
pray that the time would come when everybody could worship
the Lord under their own vine and fig tree all of them
free. It's come to me lots of times since* There she was
a'praying, and on other plantations women was a'praying*
..111 over the country the same prayer was being prayed* S-uess
the Lord done heard the prayer and answered it*
^Old man sigmens wasn't a bad master* Don't remember
so much about him* I couldn't have been 11 when he sold me to
Finkney Setzer* He kept me for a little while and then he
sold me to David Robinson* All three of them lived not so far
epart in North Carolina* But pretty soon after he bought me
old man Dave Robinson moved to Texas* We was there when the
wcr started* We stayed there all during the war* I was set
free there.
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