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“…cry themselves to sleep…”
Narrative of Calvin Moye.
Rawick, G. P., Hillegas, J., & Lawrence, K. (1978). The American slave: A composite autobiography: supplement, series 2. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Pub, Vol. 7, Texas, p. 2850.
“…outside at night.”
Narratives of Francis Bridges and Mollie Dawson.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Oklahoma Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 22.
Rawick, G. P., Hillegas, J., & Lawrence, K. (1978). The American slave: A composite autobiography: supplement, series 2. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Pub, Vol. 4, Texas, p. 1135.
“…a story about Raw Head and Bloody Bones.”
Narrative of Cicely Cawthon.
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. 192.
“…the skinned head of a beef…”
Narrative of Dosia Harris.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Georgia Narratives, Vol. 2, p. 111.
Dosia Harris
“…back to the Westcott plantation…”
See “Anarcha had been leased…,” above.
The claims here about the Westcott plantation are drawn from examination of the Westcott estate inventory documents from 1841. Anarcha must have returned prior to 1841, because she appears in the documents. There are now many more enslaved people on the plantation than in 1828, but only seventeen remain from the original list, made thirteen years earlier. Anarcha’s mother had given birth again, despite the fact that her husband Jerry was gone. Most likely, she was paired with another enslaved man. (See “In this way…,” above.)
“Now there were eighty-six…”
The 1841 Westcott plantation inventory documents lists all of the enslaved persons on the Westcott plantation at that time. See later in this chapter for a full accounting of the division of slaves among Eliza Westcott and her four children. The documents are held at the Montgomery County Archives in Montgomery, Alabama.