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“…stepped extra high…”
Narrative of Caroline Johnson Harris.
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. 129.
Caroliine Johnson Harris
“…you wanted a separation…”
Narrative of Cora Armstrong.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Arkansas Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 75.
Cora Armstrong
“…married out of the book…”
Narrative of Cinto Lewis.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Texas Narratives, Vol. 3, p. 2.
Cinto Lewis
“…the master who owned the wife.”
Narrative of James V. Deane.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Maryland Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 6.
James V. Deane
“Missuses sometimes paid close attention…”
See “…or the missus…,” above.
“You could get whipped…”
Narrative of Robert Barr.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Oklahoma Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 27.
Robert Barr
“…on a drunk spell.”
Narrative of Frank Bell.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Texas Narratives, Vol. 1, p. 60.
Frank Bell
“…Tom Vaughn…”
Narrative of Mary Reynolds. The story of Tom Vaughn was told by one of his six daughters.
Library of Congress. (2018). Slave narratives: A folk history of slavery in the U.S., Texas Narratives, Vol. 3, p. 236.
Mary Reynolds
“By the time Anarcha returned…”
There is very little indication of what Anarcha may or may not have done on the Westcott plantation. Although she later worked as a nurse, and did so with enough skill that Sims, in his own handwriting, praised her—an episode that appears later in the book—I decided that it was unlikely that she would have continued as a nurse when she returned from the Lucas plantation. There were other girls who were too young for the fields, and Anarcha was, briefly, old enough to work in the fields but too young to begin to produce children. (The image of Anarcha’s name that appears on this page in the printed book comes from the 1841 Westcott plantation inventory, held at the Montgomery County Archives in Montgomery, Alabama.)