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“…troughs for children…”
“…used these for spoons.”
“…a corn-shuck mat…”
“…right on the ground…”
“…holes in the walls…”
“…chimneys caught on fire at night.”
“…usually two families in a cabin…”
“…what family meant…”
“…many Lucas plantations.”
“…fathers from other quarters…”
“…saw their husbands or their fathers…”
“…to father hundreds…”
“…strong or portly children.”
“…the father was an overseer…”
“…noon to midnight…”
“…too white at first.”
“…three families to a cabin.”
“…singing with tired voices…”
“…the smell of wood and cooking…”
“…there was music played…”
“…with swamp quills…”
“…gourds and horsehair…”
Ida Blackshear Hutchinson
“…troughs for children…”
Narratives of Anne Maddox and Cull Taylor.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Alabama Narratives, Vol. 1, pp. 273, 364.
“…used these for spoons.”
Selected from many examples. Narratives of George Strickland, Louella Williams, and Mollie Edmonds.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Alabama Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 359.
Rawick, G. P., Hillegas, J., & Lawrence, K. (1978). The American slave: A composite autobiography: supplement, series 1. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Pub, Vol. 1, Alabama, p. 456; Mississippi, Vol. 7, p. 662.
“…a corn-shuck mat…”
Narrative of Nicey Kinney.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Georgia Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 31.
Nicey Kinney
“…right on the ground…”
Narrative of Jeff Calhoun.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Texas Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 188.
Jeff Calhoun
“…holes in the walls…”
Narrative of Angie Floyd.
Rawick, G. P., Hillegas, J., & Lawrence, K. (1978). The American slave: A composite autobiography: supplement, series 1. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Pub, Mississippi, Vol. 7, p. 739.
Angie Floyd
“…chimneys caught on fire at night.”
Narrative of Orelans Finger and Jasper Battle.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Arkansas Narratives, Vol. 2, p. 289; Georgia Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 63.
“…usually two families in a cabin…”
Narrative of Isaiah Green.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Georgia Narratives, Vol. 2, p. 49.
Isaiah Green
“…what family meant…”
Narrative of John Thomas Williams and Rias Body.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., North Carolina Narratives, Vol. 2 p. 391; Georgia Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 88.
“…many Lucas plantations.”
From a brief, unpublished portrait of Rose Hill written by A.T. Dreyspring dated September 30, 1932, p. 1. The copy I saw was held at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, Alabama.
“…fathers from other quarters…”
Narrative of Arnold Gragston.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Florida Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 147.
Arnold Gragstron
“…saw their husbands or their fathers…”
Narrative of Eliza White and Caroline Ates.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Alabama Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 412.
Rawick, G. P., Hillegas, J., & Lawrence, K. (1978). The American slave: A composite autobiography: supplement, series 1. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Pub, Vol. 3, Georgia, p. 30.
“…to father hundreds…”
Narrative of Ida Blackshear Hutchinson.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Arkansas Narratives, Vol. 3, p. 370.
Ida Blackshear Hutchinson
“…strong or portly children.”
Narrative of Rose Williams.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Texas Narratives, Vol. 4, p. 177.
Rose Williams
“…the father was an overseer…”
Narratives of Ellen Cave and Adah Isabelle Suggs.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Indiana Narratives, Vol. 1, pp. 51, 190.
“…noon to midnight…”
Narrative of Levi Pollard.
Perdue, C. L., Barden, T. E., & Phillips, R. K. (1997). Weevils in the wheat: Interviews with Virginia ex-slaves. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, p. 233.
Levi Pollard
“…too white at first.”
Narrative of Henry Green.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Arkansas Narratives, Vol. 3, p. 92.
Henry Green
“…three families to a cabin.”
Narrative of Henry Wright.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Georgia Narratives, Vol. 4, p. 199.
Henry Wright
“…singing with tired voices…”
Narrative of “Aunt” Clussey.
Rawick, G. P., Hillegas, J., & Lawrence, K. (1978). The American slave: A composite autobiography: supplement, series 1. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Pub, Vol. 1, Alabama, p. 21.
“Aunt” Clussey
“…the smell of wood and cooking…”
Narrative of Harriet McFarlane Payne.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Arkansas Narratives, Vol. 5, p. 301.
Harriet McFarlane Payne
“…there was music played…”
Narrative of Steve Weathersby.
Rawick, G. P., Hillegas, J., & Lawrence, K. (1978). The American slave: A composite autobiography: supplement, series 1. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Pub, Vol. 10, Mississippi, p. 2247.
Steve Weathersby
“…with swamp quills…”
Narrative of George Washington Browning.
Rawick, G. P., Hillegas, J., & Lawrence, K. (1978). The American slave: A composite autobiography: supplement, series 1. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Pub, Vol. 3, Georgia, pp. 115-16.
“…gourds and horsehair…”
Narrative of Wash Wilson.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Texas Narratives, Vol. 4, p. 198.
Wash Wilson