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“Barren women were sold…”
“…dressed up in fine clothes…”
“…grease their faces…”
“…tell their ages and what they could do…”
“…broken bones and whip marks…”
“…the weight of her breasts…”
“Once, there was a couple…”
“…she mixed his blood with whiskey and drank it…”
“…cut off their own hands…”
“Others told their masters…”
“…ring a bell in a pattern…”
“…let nature take its course…”
Lizzie Atkins
“Barren women were sold…”
Narrative of Berry Clay.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Georgia Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 191.
Berry Clay
“…dressed up in fine clothes…”
Narrative of Lizzie Atkins.
Rawick, G. P., Hillegas, J., & Lawrence, K. (1978). The American slave: A composite autobiography: supplement, series 2. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Pub, Vol. 2, Texas, p. 96.
Lizzie Atkins
“…grease their faces…”
Narratives of Jordon Smith and Annie Day.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Texas Narratives, Vol. 4, p. 37.
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. 1161.
“…tell their ages and what they could do…”
Narrative of James Martin.
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. 2591.
James Martin
“…broken bones and whip marks…”
Narrative of Thomas Johns.
Rawick, G. P., Hillegas, J., & Lawrence, K. (1978). The American slave: A composite autobiography: supplement, series 2. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Pub, Vol. 6, Texas, p. 1968.
Thoms Johns
“…the weight of her breasts…”
Narratives of Fannie Berry and William I. Johnson, Jr.
Perdue, C. L., Barden, T. E., & Phillips, R. K. (1997). Weevils in the wheat: Interviews with Virginia ex-slaves. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, pp. 49, 166.
“Once, there was a couple…”
Narrative of Dave Lawson. The long, elaborate story Lawson tells about what happened to his grandparents, Cleve and Lissa, is one of the more striking episodes in the narratives for its pathos and detail.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., North Carolina Narratives, Vol. 2, pp. 44-50.
“…she mixed his blood with whiskey and drank it…”
Narrative of Millie Markham. Markham was not enslaved, but she is telling the story of her parents, Tempie James and Walden Squire.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., North Carolina Narratives, Vol. 2, pp. 106-07.
“…cut off their own hands…”
Narrative of Taylor Jackson.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Arkansas Narratives, Vol. 4, pp. 22-23.
“Others told their masters…”
Narrative of Esther Easter.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Oklahoma Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 88.
Esther Easter
“…ring a bell in a pattern…”
Narratives of Nancy Anderson and Henry Cheatam.
This moment, and the rape that results in Anarcha’s first pregnancy, draws on a number of different narratives of masters fathering enslaved children.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Arkansas Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 51; Alabama Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 68.
“…let nature take its course…”
Narrative of Easter Sudie Campbell.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Kentucky Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 91.
Easter Sudie Campbell