SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

n It wouldn't do no more good to vote in the Primary than it do in
the General election© It don't do much good nohow#
"Fur as I ever knowed the slaves had no uprisin's* They thought
well enough of their masters* Everybody worked then hard as they couldt
The master he worked all time in the shop making things jess like he
needed, boards and handles, plows and things* Missus everybody worked
hard dem days, both black and white, and that is the reason folks had
plenty* The old grandmas done work whut suited them and helped out# Now
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lack me, I can't get the right work whut I able to do 'nuff to keep me
Iran*. It is bad^
"If times was bad as they was few years ago all old folks done been
rotten, starved to death* Times is better but they sho ain't all right
yet#
"This young generation livin' so fast they stop thinkin'# They do
well to keep livin* their selves. They wastes a heap they outer save fur
rainy days* They ain't takin' no advice from old folks* I don't know whut
goiner become of thenu w
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