Part 24

+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Transcriber's Corrections: | | | | | | Page 3: Then (and weepin' when they sot us free. Lots of | | them didn't want to be free, 'cause they knowed nothin' and | | had nowhere to go. #Them# what had good massas stayed right | | on.) # Page 14: too (niggers. There am 'bout 30 old and | | young niggers and 'bout 20 piccaninnies too little #to# | | work, and de nuss cares for dem while dey mammies works.) | | | | Page 28: way ("I stays with Miss Olivia till '63 when Mr. | | Will set us all free. I was 'bout 17 year old then or more. | | I #say# I goin' find my mamma. Mr. Will fixes me up two | | papers, one 'bout a yard long and the other some smaller, | | but both) | | | | Page 52: Mockbateman ("My pappy was Ike Bateman, 'cause his | | massa's name am #Mock Bateman#, and mammy's name was | | Francis. They come from Tennessee and I had four brothers | | and six sisters. We jes' left de last part) | | | | Page 67: home-make ("Marster have de plank house and all de | | things in it was #home-made#. De cook was a old cullud woman | | and I eat at de kitchen table and) | | | | Page 85: bit ("Every year they have #big# Christmas dinner | | and ham and turkey and allus feed us good. Us have Christmas | | party and sing songs. That) | | | | Page 90: LaSan (slave born. My papa was Olivier Blanchard | | and he white man carpenter on old plantation. We belong to | | Clairville #La San# and all live on that place. My papa just | | plain carpenter but could draw patterns for) | | | | Page 114: chilen (School. Dem was good times. De mistus cook | | dinner and send it down for de old folks and #chillen# to | | have plenty.) | | | | Page 147: bit ("Old massa's name was William Lyons. I didn't | | have no old missus, 'cause he was a bachelor. He had a #big# | | plantation. I don't know how big but dey somethin' like | | twenty fam'lies of slaves and some dem fam'lies) | | | | Page 164: nyself ("I seed some bad sight in slavery, but | | ain' never been 'bused #myself#. I seed chillun too lil' to | | walk from dey mammies sol' right off de block) | | | | Page 195: tim (Ross drives de cattle north and I says to | | him, 'I's good hand at de drive. Kin I go with you nex' | | #time# you goes north?' And not long after dat we starts and | | we gits to Kansas City. After Marster Ross gets shut of) | | | | Page 211: women (I saw Massa Oll and he done married after I | | left and raised a family of chillen. I saw Missie Adeline | | and she was a old #woman#. We went out and looked at the | | tombstones and the rock markers in the graveyard on the old | | place, and some of) | | | | Page 212: woned ("My master was Dick Townes and my folks | | come with him from Alabama. He #owned# a big plantation | | fifteen miles from Austin and worked lots of slaves. We had | | the best master in the whole county, and everybody called) | | | | Page 214: gen'zen ("Old massa name Jim Moore. He a fair old | | #gen'man#, with a big bald place on he head, and he am good | | to de slaves. Not even as stric' as old) | | | | Page 226: bit (best men I ever knows in my whole life and | | his wife was jes' like him. Dey had a #big#, four-room log | | house with a big hall down the center up and down. De logs | | was all peeled and de chinkin' a diff'rent color from de | | logs and) | | | | Page 228: "e (De war am on, but us don't see none of it. But | | 'stead of eatin' cornbread, us eats bread out of kaffir corn | | and maize. #"We# raises lots of okra and dey say it gwine be | | parch and grind to make coffee for white folks. Dat didn't) | | | | Page 251: conb (I go to milk I puts her in de trough. I | | saved her life lots of times. One time she's on de #cone# of | | de two-story house, when she's 'bout two years old. I eases | | up and knocks de window out and coaxes her to come to me. | | 'Nother) | | | | Page 258: Day (woman a big, red pocket handkerchief and a | | bottle of liquor. He buyed dat liquor by de barrel and liked | | it hisself. #Dat# why he allus had it on de place.) | | | | Page 262: outselves ("We mos'ly lived on corn pone and salt | | bacon de marster give us. We didn't have no gardens | | #ourselves#, 'cause we wouldn't have time to work in dem. We | | worked all day in de fields and den was so tired we | | couldn't) | | | | Page 263: Weht (usually split from hem to neck and I had to | | wear them till they was strings. #Went# barefoot summer and | | winter till the feets crack open.) | | | | Page 267: bit ("Dey feeds us well sometimes, if dey warn't | | mad at us. Dey has a big trough jes' like de trough for de | | pigs and dey has a #big# gourd and dey totes de gourd full | | of milk and dey breaks de bread in de milk. Den my mammy) | | | | Page 289: whay (us call Massa John, and he wife, Miss | | Lizzie, and we is de only cullud folks #what# dey owns.) | | | | Page 292: everhas (more carpet baggers and liars dan you | | ever has seed, and you'll be worse off den you #ever has# | | been, if you has anythin' to do with dem. Den she opens de | | book and tells us all when us born and how old us am, so us | | have some record 'bout) | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------+