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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VI, Kansas Narratives

summary:
  When slave owners died, if they had no near relatives to inherit their property, they would 'Will' the slaves their freedom, instead of giving them to someone else. Slaves were never allowed to talk to white people other than their masters or someone their master knew, as they were afraid the white man might have the slave run away.


id: 11552
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VIII, Maryland Narratives

summary:
  Describing the general conditions of Maryland slaves, he said: We would work from sunrise to sunset every day except Sundays and on New Year's Day. , she would wear the cast-off clothes of the mistress, or, at other times the clothes made by other slaves.


id: 19932
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XV, Tennessee Narratives

summary:
  We had good clothes ter w'ar en w'en we went ter de table hit wuz loaded wid good food en we could set down en eat our stomachs full. I wuz bawn in slavery en b'longs ter de Brown family.


id: 11920
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VII, Kentucky Narratives

summary:
  I was nurse in slave time en I carried de chilluns all ober de house en one day I had de chilluns upstars en my missus called me en I do not remember my grandmother, and I didn't have to work in slave days, because my mother and father did all the work except the heavy farm work.


id: 13579
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume V, Indiana Narratives

summary:
  Another tradition prevailed, that slave children should be presented to the master's young sons and daughters and become their special property even in childhood. According to the customary practice of raising slave children, Adah was left at the negro quarters of the McClain plantation, a large estate located in Henderson county, three and one half miles from the village of Henderson, Kentucky.


id: 11422
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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summary: Ma didn't talk much about old times. On the next corner, old man Sinclair lived.
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 7


id: 12297
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume III, Florida Narratives

summary:
  He and other slave children attended schools provided by the Freedmen' Aid and other social organizations fostered by Northerners. As a child Acie spent much of his time roaming over the broad acres of the Folsom plantation with other slave children.


id: 11255
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 1

summary:
  Old man Toliver said he didn't want none of us to be sold; so they wasn't none of us sold. She married old man named Lewis Chase and they worked on where he had been raised.


id: 31219
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2

summary:
  Dey would go through de fields and buy de slaves dey wanted. When de Yankees come Marse wus off ter de war so dey tuck de place wid out any trouble at all.


id: 11544
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 5

summary:
  The conditions is hard for old men like me. I remember there was on old man called Billy Mann lived down here at Noble lake.


id: 11709
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 6

summary:
  Old man can't get 'nuff regular work to cover my house or buy me a suit closes. When it gets cold and no work, makes it hard on old men.


id: 18484
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 3

summary:
  But I kin talk and I does love to bring back dem good old days a-fore de war. I can't git over it, dat you done walked way out here from de courthouse jus' to listen to dis old Nigger talk 'bout dem good old days.


id: 22166
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 2

summary:
  Marster 'pinted a cullud boy to git de slaves up 'fore day, and dey wukked f'um sunup to sundown. Atter all de corn was shucked, dey was give a big feast wid lots of whiskey to drink and de slaves was 'lowed to dance and frolic 'til mornin'.


id: 22976
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1

summary:
  I knows dat de Yankees wus good ter de niggers but dey warn't so good ter de ole Issues. I ain't never hear Marse Henry cuss but once an' dat wus de time dat some gentlemens come ter de house an' sez dat dar am a war 'twixt de north an' de south.


id: 13700
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2

summary:
  Lan', but them was good old days when Master Billy was alive. She was a worker and never took time to tell me about old times.


id: 13602
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1

summary:
  Marse Alec, he was all de time havin' big mens visit him up at de big house. De overseer, he had a bugle what he blowed to wake up de slaves.


id: 18485
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 4

summary:
  In de hot summer time Uncle George Gullatt use ter preach ter de slaves out under de trees. De white preacher baptized de slaves and den he preached--dat was all dere was to it 'ceppen de big dinner dey had in de churchyard on baptizin' days.


id: 19446
author: United States. Work Projects Administration
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title:
  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 3

summary:
  One day, years after slavery, when she had married again and had a family, she and her husband got to talking about old slave times. My mother raised us a heap like old times.


