Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938, Available Online, Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter (mesn.111/), Available Online

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Image 1 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter SLAVE NARRATIVES A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews ivith Former Slaves TYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED RY THE FEDERAL WRITERS PROJECT 19361938 ASSEMBLED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECT WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Illustrated with Photographs WASHINGTON 1941

Date: 1936

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Image 2 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter VOLUME XI NORTH CAROLINA NARRATIVES PART 1 Prepared by the Federal Writers1 Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Carolina

Date: 1936

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Image 3 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter INFORMANTS Adams Louisa Adkins Ida Allen Martha Anderson Joseph Anderson MaryAndrews Cornelia Anngady Mary Arrington Jane Augustus Sarah Louise Austin Charity 1 8 13 16 19 27 32 44 50 58 Baker Blount Baker Lizzie Baker Viney Barbour Charlie Barbour Mary Baugh Alice Beckwith John Beetorn John C Bell Laura Blalock Emma Blount David Bobbit Clay Bobbitt Henry Bogan Herndon Boone Andrew Bost W...

Date: 1936

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Image 4 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter ILLUSTRATIONS Facing page Louisa Adams 1 Viney Baker 70 John Beckwith 87 Clay Bobbit Henry Bobbitt 117 120 Herndon Bogan 125 W L Bost 138 John Coggin 176 Hannah Crasson 187 Bill Crump 207 Charlie Crump and Granddaughter 212 Harriet Ann Daves 232 Charles W Dickens 254 Margaret E Dickens 259 Rev Squire Dowd 263 Jennylin Dunn 275 Tempie Herndon Durham 284 George Eatman...

Date: 1936

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Image 5 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter it 820152 f B Jk 93 b u a Aflas N C District No 2 Subject Worker T Pat Matthews Person Interviewed No Words Editor Daisy Bailev Waitt 1384 Louisa Adams

Date: 1936

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Image 6 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320152 LOUISA ADAMS My name is Louisa Adams I wuz bawned in Eockingham Richmond County North Carolina hen the Yankees come through A Covington Sir I wuz eight years old I belonged to Marster Tom My mother wua named Easter and my father wuz named Jacob We were all Covingtons 0 Sir I dont know whur my mother and father come from Solo man...

Date: 1936

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Image 7 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2 bad and beds were sorry We went barefooted in a way What I mean by that is that we had shoes part of the time We got one pair o shoes a year went barefooted When dey wored out we Sometimes we tied them up with strings and they were so ragged de tracks looked like bird tracks where we walked in the...

Date: 1936

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Image 8 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 3 daddy after he had made it K father went to Steven Covington Marster Toms brother and told him about it and his brother Stephen made him gib father his meat back to us My missus wuz kind to me but Mars Tom wuz the buger It wuz a mighty bit plantation I dont know how many slaves wuz on it there were a...

Date: 1936

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Image 9 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter not lowed to have prayer meetings No parties no candy pullings nor dances no ir not a bit I member goin one time to the white folkses church no baptizing dat I tmember Lawd have mercy ha I ha were on de place at night No De pateroller You couldnt travel without a pas I have greased my daddy1s back We got few possums...

Date: 1936

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Image 10 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 5 to see us The slaves took herbs Dats what I do now Sir 6 Jey found in de woods I got some erbs right in my kitchen now When the Yankees come through I did not know anything about J em till they got there up out of de ground Jist like they were poppin One of the slaves wuz at his masters...

Date: 1936

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Image 11 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 6 chilltm feet sore We had a little meat corn meal a tray and mammy had a tin pan One night we came to a old house some one had put wheat straw in it mornin we come back home We staid there next Not to Marsters but to a white man named Peggy McClinton on her plantation there a long time We stayed...

Date: 1936

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Image 12 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter w I 1W 320278 District No Title worker Intervie wed No Words Travis Jordan 1500 Ida Adkins Exslave Ida Adkins County Home Durham NC 8

Date: 1936

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Image 13 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320278 9 IDA ADKIN3 Exslave 79 years I wiz trkwnbefo de war I mwbout eight years ole when de Yankee mens come through My mammy an pappy Hattie an Jim Jeffries helonged to Marse Frank Jeffries Marse Frank come from Mississippi but when I wiz 1 JJi A ban he an Mis Mary Jane kjpz livin dovai he near Louisburg in rorth Carolina whare...

Date: 1936

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Image 14 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 10 2 jgr day to stay in town an a day to come back dten he always got eptnfAhe rode hofse back f stead of de carriage QM den sometimes he got homw by sun down Marse Frank didnf go to de warpfie w too ole o when de Yankees come through dey foun him at home When Marse Frank seed de blue coats...

Date: 1936

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Image 15 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 11 3AjriW iUhMMs of dem was at de stables gettinr de o es anr some of demws in de house gettin de silver an1 things As silver pitcher an1 tea pot in r bag I seed dem put de big Den dey took de knives anr ffcr4ee an1 all de candle sticks an1 platters off de side eia4 Dey went in de parlor an1...

Date: 1936

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Image 16 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 4 12 lit on dem blue coats an every time dey lit dey stuck in 9 pizen sting De Yankees forgot all irbout de meat an things dey done stole dey took off down de road on er run passin de ftoabo ph beesinght after dem in long line Deyd zoom an zip an zoom an zip an every time deyd zip r Yankee...

Date: 1936

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Image 17 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 32027G n j C District No 2 13 K Subject gvSJave Storv Worker lfeyy A Hicks Persan Interviewed Martha Allen Ho Jnrrla Editor Daisy Bailev Waitt 402 n J

Date: 1936

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Image 18 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 32027G 24 EXSLAVS STORY An interview with Martha Allen 78 of 1318 South Person Street Raleigh I wuz borned in Craven County seventy eight years ago pappa wuz named Andrew Bryant an my mammy wuz named Harriet Andrew Ity brothers wuz John Franklin Alfredan1 I aint had no sisters I reckon dat we is what yor call a general mixture case I am part...

Date: 1936

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Image 19 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2 15 tt Yes mam Ise mixed plenty case my mammys grandmaw wuz Cherokee Injun I doan know nothin bout no war case marster carried us ter Cedar Palls near Durham an dars whar we come free 1 MI members dat de Ku Klux uster go ter de Free Issues houses strip all de family an whup de ole folkses Den dey dances wid...

Date: 1936

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Image 20 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 13 N C District II Worker Mrs Edith S Hibbs No Words 275 Edited Mrs ff N Harriss Subject Story of Joseph Anderson Interviewed Joseph Anderson 1113 Rankin StWilmingtonNC

Date: 1936

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Image 21 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter i Y STORY OF JOSEPH ANDERSON 1113 Rankin Street Wilmington N C Yesm I was born a slave I belong to Mr T C Mcllhenny who had a big rice plantation Eagles Nest in Brunswick County It was a big piace an he was a good man fourteen My mother and father died when I was Father died in February 1865 and my mother...

Date: 1936

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Image 22 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2i8 I was a stevedore for Mr Alexander Sprunt for sixty years Joseph is now buying his house at 1113 Rankin Street Rents part of it for 850 a month to pay for it He stays in one room NOTEE Josephs health is none too good making information sketchy and incoherent iirHMM

Date: 1936

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Image 23 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter flj623t9tf ii C District Worker No 2 T Pat Matthews No Words 1905 Subject MAHY AM3ERS0N Person Interviewed Editor Mary Anderson Q L Andrews 19

Date: 1936

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Image 24 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 380086 20 MARY ANDERSON 6 years of age 17 Poole Road RFD 2 My name is Mary Anderson Raleigh N C I was born on a plantation near Franklinton Wake County IS C May 10 1851 I was a slave belonging to Sam Brodie who owned the plantation at this place missus1 name was Evaline My father was Alfred Brodie and my mother was...

Date: 1936

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Image 25 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2 A large frame building was built over it 21 At the top of the earth there was an entrance door and steps leading down to the bottom of the hole Other things besides ice were stored there There was a still on the plantation and barrels of brandy were stored in the ice house also pickles preserves and cider Elany of the things...

Date: 1936

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Image 26 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 8grapes 22 We picked the quinces in August and used them for preserving Marster and missus believed in giving the slaves plenty of fruit especially the children Marster had three children one boy named Dallas and two girls Bettie and Carrie He would not allow slave children to call his children marster and missus unless the slave said little marster or little missus He...

Date: 1936

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Image 27 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 4 23 Patterollers were not allowed on the place unless they came peacefully and I never knew of them whipping any slaves on marsters place wagons to be sold the unruly ones Slaves were carried off on two horse I have seen several loads leave They were Sometimes he would bring back slaves once he brought back two boys and three girls from the...

Date: 1936

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Image 28 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter r5 The war was begun and there were stories of fights and freedom The news went from plantation to plantation and while the slaves acted natural and some even more polite than usual they prayed for freedom Then one day I heard something that sounded like thunder and missus and marster began to walk around ana act queer The grown slaves were whispering to...

Date: 1936

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Image 29 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 25 to In about an hour there was one of the blackest clouds coming up the avenue from the main road It was the Yankee soldiers they finally filled the mile Ion avenue reaching from marsters house to the main Louisburg road and spread out over the mile square grove The mounted men dismounted The footmen stacked their shining guns and began to build...

Date: 1936

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Image 30 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 86 most of the time at some other slave owners plantation and getting more homesick every day The second year after the surrender our marster and missus yot on their carriage and went and looked up all the Negroes they heard of who ever belonged to them Some who went off with the Yankees were never heard of again When marster and missus found...

Date: 1936

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Image 31 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter JUH 320280 1937 27 NC District No 2 Subject Cornelia Andrews Worker Mary A Hicks Story teller Cornelia Andrews No Words Editor Daisy Bailey Waitt 789 v V4

Date: 1936

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Image 32 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320280 28 CORHELIA ANDREWS An interview on May 21 1937 with Cornelia Andrews of Sraithfield Johnston County who is 87 years old De fust marster dat I members wuz Mr Qute Williams an he wuz a good marster but me anr my mammy an some of de rest of em wuz sold to Doctor McKay Vaden who wuz not good ter us Doctor Vaden...

Date: 1936

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Image 33 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2 deyd go north 29 Bey said dat der wuz one day at Smithfield dat three hundret slaves wuz sold on de block Dey said dat peoples came from fer an near eben from New Orleans ter dem slave sales Dey said dat way fore I wuz borned dey us ter strip dem niggers start naked an1 gallop em ober de square so dat...

Date: 1936

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Image 34 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter a de kitchen washin dishes an I draps one De missus calls Mr Blount King a patteroller an he puts de whuppin yo sees de marks of on me My ole missus foun it out anr she corned an got meH A friend of the interviewer who was present remarked That must have been horrible to say the leastn Yodoan know no thin the...

Date: 1936

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Image 35 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 31 stepped ober de broom an course I doan know when Yo knows dey aint let no little runty nigger have no chilluns Naw sir dey aint dey operate on dem lak dey does de male hog sos dat dey can ft have no little runty chilluns Some of de marsters wuz good an some of dem wuz bad I wuz glad ter be...

Date: 1936

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Image 36 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 880026 32 NC District No Words No 2 22289 Borker T Pat Matthews Subject A SLAVE STORY Princess Quango Hennadonah Perceriah Reference MAR ANHGADY Editor George L Andrews 0 fo i ii sri

Date: 1936

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Image 37 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 33 MARY MMGADY Princess Quango Hennadonah Perceriah 1110 Oakwood Avenue Haleigh North Carolina I was eighteen years old in 1875 but I wanted to get married so I gave my age as nineteen I wish I could re call some of the ole days when I was with my missus in Orange County playing with my brothers and other slave children I was owned...

Date: 1936

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Image 38 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2 34 M My father was named James Masonand he belonged to James Mason of Chapel Hill brothers belonged town Mother and I and my four to the same man and we also lived in the I never lived on a farm or plantation in my life I know nothing about farming All my people are dead and I cannot locate any of marsters...

Date: 1936

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Image 39 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter The first I knew of the Yankees was when I was out in my marsters yard picking up chips and they came along took my little brother and put him on a horses back and carried him up town I ran and told my mother about it They rode brother over the tovm a while having fun out of him then they brought him...

Date: 1936

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Image 40 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 4 The first school I attended was after the war closed The school was located in Chapel Hill North Carolina and was taught by a Yankee white woman from Philadelphia remained in Chapel Hill only a We fw years after the war ended when we all moved to Raleigh and I have made it my home ever since I got the major part of...

Date: 1936

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Image 41 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 5 37 of us had finished our work in Massachusetts he going back to his home in New York City and I returning to Richmond he asked me to correspond with him I promised to do so and our friendship after a years correspondence became love and he proposed and I accepted him We were married in Raleigh by Rev JJ Worlds pastor of...

Date: 1936

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Image 42 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 38 We traveled and lectured in ooth the north and the south and our life while we had to work hard was one of happiness and contentment I traveled and lectured as the Princess Quango iiennadonah Perceriah wife of the Abyssinian Prince I often recited the recitation written by the colored poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar When Mailiftia Sings to the delight of our audiences...

Date: 1936

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Image 43 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 39 the middle of a court surrounded by the members of the tribe In his hand he carried a gourd which contained beads shot or small stones He began his incantations by rattling the contents of the gourd shouting and making many veird wails and peculiar contortions After this had gone on for sometime antil he was near exhaustion his face assumed the expression...

Date: 1936

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Image 44 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 8 40 their limbs being dismembered first cuid thrown into the river to the crocodiles A drink containing an opiate vas generally given the victim to deaden the pain but often this formality was dispensed with The victims were often cut to pieces at the place of trial with knives and their limbs thrown out to the vultures that almost continuously hover round the...

Date: 1936

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Image 45 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 9 41 my husband told me of a Bakuba girl who ate her own mother Once a snake bit a man and he at once called the witch doctor The snake was a poisonous one and the man bitten was in great pain The witch doctor whooped and went through several chants but the man got worse instead of better The witch doctor then...

Date: 1936

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Image 46 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter k 10 made of a green sapling is firmly implanted in the earth nearby A thong is placed around the neck of the victim under the chin The sapling is then bent over and the other end of the thong tied to the end of the sapling pole The pole stretches the neck to its full length and holds the head erect Drums are...

Date: 1936

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Image 47 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter li 43 courtesies from their wives beating them unmercifully when they feel proper respect has not been shown them The men hunt game and make war on other trioes and the women do all the worko A savage warrior when not engaged in hunting or war sleeps a lot and smokes almost continously during his waking hours Girls are bought from their parents while...

Date: 1936

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Image 48 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 580126 KJt 44 5I N C District Ho 2 Subject Worker T Pat Matthews Story tellei Jane Arrington No words Editor 1051 JAME ARRINGTON Geo L Andrews

Date: 1936

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Image 49 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter G30I26 45 JANE ARRINGTOET 84 years old 302 Powle Street Raleigh H C n I ort to he able to tell sunrpin cause I wus twelve years old when dey had de surrender right up here in Raleigh If I live to see dis coming December I will be eighty five years old I wus born on the 18th of December 1852 n I...

Date: 1936

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Image 50 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2 46 beds to sleep on an1 de houses wus good warm comfortable log houses We had plenty of cover an1 feather pillows My grandmother on my mothers side told me a lot of stories bout haints and how people run from em Dey told me bout slaves dat had been killed by dere nnarsterscoming back and worryin em Ole Missus Penny Williams before...

Date: 1936

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Image 51 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter s i cooked rem in our houses quiltins 47 We had no parties but we had We went to the white folks church Peach Tree Church six miles from de plantation an Poplar Springs Church seven miles away Both were missionary Baptist Churches There were no overseers on Jackson Mays plantation He wouldnt have nary one none Billy Williams didnt have Dey had colored...

Date: 1936

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Image 52 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 4 If dey caught a slave wid a book you knowed it meant a whuppin but de white chillun teached slaves secretey sometimes Ole man Jake Rice a slave who belonged to John Rice in Nash County wus teached by ole John Rices son till he had a purty good mount of larain tt We did not have prayer meeting at marsters plantation or...

Date: 1936

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Image 53 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 5 49 f x Den de Yankees come I heard dem beat de drum Marster tole us we wus free but mother an father stayed on with Marster He promised em sumptin but he give em nothin Yfrien de crop wus housed dey left Father and mother went to Hench Stallings plantation and stayed there one year farm Then they went to Jim Webbs...

Date: 1936

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Image 54 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320031 50 K C District Ko 2 Subject SAAAH LOUISE AUGUSTUS Worker T Pat Matthews Source Sarah Louise Augustus loi Words Editor George L Andrews 1426

Date: 1936

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Image 55 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 51 820031 SARAH LOUISE AUGUSTUS Age 80 years 1424 Lane Street Raleigh3 Forth Carolina I wus born on a plantation near Fayetteville N C and I belonged to J B Smith He owned about thirty slaves His wife wus named Henrietta when a slave wus no good he wus put on the auction block in Fayetteville and sold Lily father wus named Romeo Harden...

Date: 1936

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Image 56 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2 52 able to work any at all I wus put to milking cows M I have seen the paterollers hunting men and have seen men they had whipped The slave block stood in the center of the street Payetteville Street where Ramsey and Gillespie Street came in near Cool Springs Street mill stood just oelow the slave market The silk I saw the...

Date: 1936

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Image 57 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 3 a scarf and his sister gave me some shells the things they gave me Mr Landers sister time 53 I have all missus Henrietta Smith wus I waited on the Landers part of the They were hard working white folks honest God fearing people The things they gave me were brought from over the sea I can remember when there wus no hospital...

Date: 1936

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Image 58 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter ii 54 washed and shrouded the dead bodies one who did this grandmother wus Her name wus Sarah McDonald belonged to Gapt George McDonald She had fifteen children and lived to be one hundred and ten years old in Fayetteville of pneumonia She She died She wus in Raleigh nursing the 3riggs family Mrs F H Briggs family She wus going home to Fayetteville...

Date: 1936

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Image 59 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 5 5 to Mr will Puller People thought the slave ought to have left it to his sister but he left it to Mr Will L r Fuller gives part of it to the exslaves sister each year Mr Will always helped the Hegroes out wh n he could He wus good to Dick and Dick McAlister gave him all his belongings when he...

Date: 1936

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Image 60 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter the plantation buried her 5G My mother died there and the white folks Father stayed right on and helped run the farm until he died stayed too Ifiy uncle 31ic Smith and his family Grandfather and grandmother after a few years left the plantation and went to live on a little place which iirs Mary Ann Fuller gave them Grandmother and grandfather died there...

Date: 1936

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Image 61 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter the freighter Wilmington when he wus drowned He worked there three years After his death I married David Augustus and immediately came back to l7orth Carolina and my white folks and we have been here ever since I am a member of several Negro Lodges and am on the Committee for the North Carolina Colored State Fair n There are only a few of...

Date: 1936

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Image 62 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter v0 U C District i0 ordss Worker 2 908 ffla Pat Matthews Subject A Slave Story Story Teller Charity Austin Editor Baisy Bailey Msd MPif ljp nn mmsvsmsm

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Image 63 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320281 59 CHARITY AUSTIN 507 South Bloodworth Street Raleigh HC I wus borned in the year 1852 July 27 I mis born in Granville County sold to a slave speculator at ten years old and carried to Southwest Georgia I belonged to Samuel Howard His daughter took me to Kinston North Carolina and I stayed there until I wus sold She married a man...

Date: 1936

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Image 64 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2 The white children and me saw him out at the railroad 60 We were settin1 and waitin1 t see Him He said he vus huntin his people and dat he had lost all he had Dey give him some thin1 to eat and tobacco to chew and he went on we heard he wus in come through Soon de White House ohen we...

Date: 1936

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Image 65 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 81 3 blow killed her He wus reported to de Freedmans Bureau Bey came wiiupped de overseer and put him in jail Bey decided not to kill him but made him furnish de children of de dead women so much to live on Dere wus a hundred or more niggers in de field when this murder happened n We finally found out we were...

Date: 1936

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Image 66 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 4 ooi wid a book 62 you better not be caught tryin1 to do sornethin1 Bey would teach you wid a stick or switdhu De slaves had secret prayer meetins wid pots turned down to kill de soun1 o de singin salvationfs free1 We sang a song Once dey heard us nex1 mornin1 dey took us and tore our backs to pieces you free...

Date: 1936

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Image 67 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter B 320012 I C District Yorker v Ho 2 Mary A Hicks lio Words 367 Subject BLGUITT 3MER Person Interviewed Editor 63 Blount Baker G I Andrews

Date: 1936

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Image 68 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter m 320012 HLOUFf BAKER An interview with Blount Baker 106 Spruce Street Wilson Forth Carolina Yesum I longed ter Marse Henry Allen of Wilson ounty an1 we always raise terbacker Marse Henry vus good ter us so we had a heap of prayer meetins an1 corn shuckins an such M I members de big meetins dat wed have in de summer time an1 dat...

Date: 1936

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Image 69 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2We aint seed no Yankees r cept a few hunt in Rebs 65 Dey talk mean ter us an one of dem says dat we niggers am de cause of dewar Sir I sez folks what am a wantin a war can always find a causer He kicks me in de seat of de pants far dat so I hushes I stayed wid Marse...

Date: 1936

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Image 70 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320244 IS C District orker No 2 T Pat Matthews Ho Words v 66 745 Subject LIZZIE BAKER Person Interviewed Lizzie Baker Editor Daisy Bailey Vaitt

Date: 1936

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Image 71 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320244 LIZZIE BAKER 424 Smith Street I was born de las year o de surrender ancourse I dont remember seein any Yankee soldiers but a plenty my mother and father tole me I knows I have neuritus an have been unable to work any fer a year and fer seven years I couldnt do much Ify mother wus named Teeny Mclntire and my father...

Date: 1936

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Image 72 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2 punish her Mammy said dey gave de slaves on de plantation one day Christmas and dat New Years wus when dey sold em an hired em out All de slaves wus scared cause dey didnt know who would have to go off to be sold or to work in a strange place Pap tole me bout livin in de woods and rbout dey...

Date: 1936

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Image 73 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 69 3I remember pap tellin me bout stretchin vines acrost roads and paths to knock de patterollers off deir horses when dey were tryin to ketch slaves mammy tole me marster and missus did not slaves to have a book in deir house Pap and low any of de Dat if dey caught a slave wid a book in deir house dey whupped em...

Date: 1936

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Image 74 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320182 70 N C District No Z Subject Worker Marv A Hicks Story teller No Words Editor 339 VINEY BAKER Viney Baker Daisy Bailey Waitt

Date: 1936

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Image 75 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320182 1 VIKEr BAKER ExSlave Story An interview with Viney Baker 78 of S Harrington Street Raleigh R Kify mammy wuz Hannah Murry an so fur as I know I aint got no father do I reckon dat he wuz de plantation stock nigger I wuz borned in Virginia as yo mought say ter my marster Mr S L Allen We moved when I...

Date: 1936

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Image 76 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter I jist members de whuppins Some of de rest wuz beat wuser dan I wuz too an1 I uster scream dat I wuz sho dyin Yessum I seed de Yankees go by but dey aint bodder us none case dey knows dat hind eber bush jist about a Confederate soldier pints a gun W I warnt glad at de surrender case I doan understand...

Date: 1936

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Image 77 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320151 73 1 Itt District No vords Viorker ffijCX Subject EXoLAVE 2 733 Mary A Kicks DTQHY Story tellersCharlie Barbour Editors Daisy Bailey Waitt

Date: 1936

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Image 78 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320151 74 M6LAVE 3TOBY An interview on Liay 201937 with Charlie Barbour 86 of jinithfield NC Johnston County I belonged ter Mr Bob Lumsford hyar in Smithfield from de time of my birth My mammy wuz named Candice an1 my pappy rs name wuz Seth My brothers VAIZ Hufus Vsilliam an George an my sisters wuz feary an Laura I minds me of de...

Date: 1936

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Image 79 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2 75 his thirteen grown slaves had ter ten bout three hundred acres o land Course dey mostly planted con peas an1 veesbles I can member do I wuz small dat de slaves wuz whupped fer disobeyin an1 I can think of seberal dat I got I wuz do in housewuck at de time an one of de sil ver knives got misplaced Dey...

Date: 1936

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Image 80 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter t 3 76 am what de cruel slave owner or driver done ter him1 Yes mara I knows when de Yankees corned ter Smithfield Dey corned wid de beatin of drums an de wavin of flags jey says dat our governor wuz hyar makin a speech but he flewed fore dey got hyar Anyhow we libed off from de mtin path of march an...

Date: 1936

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Image 81 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 4 77 t I aint neber learn ter read an1 write an1 I knows now dat I neber will I cant eoen write a letter ter lialeigh fbout my ole mans pension I members de days when mammy wored a blue hankerchief round her haid an cooked in de great house Shed some times sneak me a cookie or a cobbler an1 fruits She...

Date: 1936

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Image 82 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320243 V I C District No 2 Subject forker Marv A Hicks Person Interviewed Marv Barbour fo fforda Editor 678 MARY HARBOUR Daisy Bailey Waitt 78

Date: 1936

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Image 83 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320249 MARY BARBOUR ExSlave Story An interview with Mary Barbour 81 of 801 3 Bloodworth Street Raleigh N C I reckon dat I wuz borned in McDowell County case dats whar my mammy Edith lived She longed ter Mr Jefferson Mitchel dar an my pappy longed ter er Mr Jordan in Avery County so he said Fore de war I doan know nothin much...

Date: 1936

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Image 84 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2 80 Atter tee wuz dressed he went outside an1 peeped roun fer a minute den he corned back an1 got us We snook out o de house anr long de woods path pappy totin one of de twins an hoIdin1 me by de han an mammy carryin de udder two I reckons dat I will always member dat walk wid de bushes slappin...

Date: 1936

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Image 85 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 3we gits of de Rebs Anyhow pappy says dat we is goin f ter jine de Yankees We trabels all night an hid in de woods all day fer a long time but atter awhile we gits ter Doctor Billards place in Chowan County I reckons dat we stays dar seberal days De Yankees has tooked dis place so we stops ober an has...

Date: 1936

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Image 86 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 80 JUH1 f y C District Ho 2 Subject Plantation Times Worker Marv A Hicks Person Interviewed Alice Baugh JTo Words Editor Daisy Bailev Waitt 927 tfjgfclJtjJj t C NoU OiJr Mj HSl

Date: 1936

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Image 87 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320162 83 PLANTATION TIMES An Interview on May 18 1937 with Alice Baugh 64 who remembers hearing her mother tell of slavery days My mammy Ferbie an her brother Darson belonged ter ivir David Hinnant in Sdgecombe County till young Mars ter Charlie got married Den dey wuz drawed an sent wid him down hyar ter Wendell De ole Hinnant home am still standin...

Date: 1936

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Image 88 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2 play Hide an1 Seek an Leap Frog an everybody wuz happy Dey had time off ter hunt an1 fish anr dey had dere own chickens pigs watermillons an gyardens De fruits from de big orchard an1 de honey from de hives wuz et at home anr de slave et as good as his marster et Dey had a whole heap o bee hives...

Date: 1936

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Image 89 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 3 85 water anr dem ole Issue rees up in de woods would yell at her Doan yor muddy dat spring little galf Dat scared her moughty bad Dem Issue Trees till dis day shows both bloods De white folkses wont have em an1 de niggers doan want em but will have ter have em anyhow My uncle wuz raised in a cave anr...

Date: 1936

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Image 90 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 4 said dat all de slaves cried when de Yankees come an dat most uv em stayed on a long time atter de war Ky manmy plowed an1 done such work all de time uv slavery out she done it case she wanted to do it an not cause dey rake her J A11 de slaves hate de Yankees an when de southern soldiers...

Date: 1936

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Image 91 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter II 380157 C 87 yr K C District No 2 Subject YfflOBN THE YANKEES GAMB Worker Mary A Kicks Story teller John Beckwith fo Words Editor Daisy Bailey Vaitt 341

Date: 1936

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Image 92 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter S801S7 88 WHEN TEE YAKKEES GAL An Interview with John Beckwith 83 of Gary I reckon dat I wuz bout nine years old at de surrender but we warnt happy an we stayed on dar till ray parents died My pappy wuz named Green an my mammy wuz named Molly an we belonged ter Mr Joe Edwards Mr Marion Gully an Mr Hilliard Beckwith...

Date: 1936

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Image 93 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2 brandy till dey gits wobbly in de legs 89 Atter dat dey comes up on de frontporch an calls my missus When she comes ter de do dey tells her dat dey am goin in de house ter look things over Ivfy missus dejicts case ole marster am away at de war but dat doan do no good scanlous an dey dares her...

Date: 1936

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Image 94 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 3 wuz safter dan at dat place De next mornin1 dem Yankees moved frum dar an dey aint come back fer nothin M We wuznt happy at de surrender an we cussed ole Abraham Lincoln all ober de place We TUZ told de disadvantages of not havin no edercation but shucks we doan need no book larnin wid ole marster ter look atter us...

Date: 1936

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Image 95 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 320163 Ls 91 K r M K C District No 2 Subject JOHN C BSGTOM Worker T Pat Matthews Story teller John C Beetorn No Words Editor Daisy Bailey Waitt 1 566

Date: 1936

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Image 96 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter o 20163 f 92 JOHN C BECTOM My name is John C Bectom I was born Oct 7 1862 near Fayetteville Cumberland County North Carolina lily father s name was Simon Bee torn when he died He was 86 years of age He died in 1910 at Fayetteville N C mothers name was Harriet Bectom She died in 1907 May 23 when she was...

Date: 1936

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Image 97 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 2 burning logs in new grounds before daybreak They also made her plow the same as any of the men on the plantation They plowed till duskdark before they left the fields to come to the house They were not allowed to attend any dances or parties unless they slipped off unknowins They had candy pullings sometimes too While they would be there the...

Date: 1936

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Image 98 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter 3 Ity marster lived in a fine house it It took a year to build There were about 16 rooms in it the great house reached Ohio 94 We slaves called it Some of the slaves ran away and finally There was no jail on the plantation Some times the overseer would whip us The Kings had no overseers with a stick King beat...

Date: 1936

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Image 99 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter children When the white children studied their lessons I studied with them in the sand too When they wrote in the sand X wrote The white children and not the marster or mistress is where I got started in learnin to read and write We had corn shuckings candy pullings dances prayer meetings We went to carap meetin1 on Gamp Meeting days in August...

Date: 1936

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Image 100 of Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 11, North Carolina, Part 1, Adams-Hunter s 1 Prank I pronounce you and Jane man and wife go But the woman did not take the name of her husband she kept the name of the family who owned her M I remember seeing the Yankees near Fayetteville They shot a bomb shell at Wheelers Calvary and it hit near me and buried in the ground first and ramsaked the place...

Date: 1936

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