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Title Weren't no good times : personal accounts of slavery in Alabama / edited by Horace Randall Williams.

Publication Info. Winston-Salem : John F. Blair, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E445.A3 W47 2004    Available  ---
Description 191 pages ; 19 cm.
Series Real voices, real history series
Real voices, real history series.
Contents I ain't never been a slave / Nicey Pugh -- Old Joe can keep his two bits / Anthony Abercrombie -- Mules be eatin', and Niggers be eatin' / Angie Garrett -- They planted the silver in the field / Georgia Mitchell -- Escapes whipping by pulling frock coattail / Frank Gill -- Today's folks don't know nothin' / Mary Ella Grandberry -- Sho I believes in spirits / Charles Hayes -- I runned most of the way / Lizzie Hill -- A conjure what didn't work / Jake Green -- The Yankees was a harricane / Cornelia Robinson -- We et like li'l pigs / Annie Stanton -- Cornshuckin' was the greates' thing / George Strickland -- This was that long ago / William Henry "Bill" Towns -- Hongry for punkin pie / Adeline Hodges -- I had many masters / Caroline Holland -- The patriarch Abraham saw the stars fall / Abraham Jones -- How to make em "teethe easy" / Emma Jones -- Cures and "cunjer" / Dellie Lewis -- Chasing Guinea Jim, the runaway slave / Josh Horn -- Massa had a way of looking at you / Isam Morgan -- Peter had no keys ceptin' his'n / George Young -- These uppity Niggers / Mary Rice -- What I keer about bein' free? / Nannie Bradfield -- I loved to pick that box / George Dillard -- I would talk a lot for a dime / Rufus Dirt -- Cabins as far as you could see / Katherine Eppes -- In slavery time / Martha Bradley -- Ole Joe had a real 'ligion / Walter Calloway -- White hen is heaps of company / Ella Dillard -- Gittin' my pension / Cheney Cross -- The overseer's mean / Amy Chapman -- I heard Lincoln set us free / Henry Cheatam -- Sometime an old Nigger die / Allen Sims -- Mad bout somep'n so they had a war / John Smith -- Us gwine walk them gold streets / Theodore Fontaine Stewart -- Chillun was mannerable / George Taylor -- Hid things they ain't never found / Elizabeth Thomas -- I warn't no common slave / Mollie Tillman -- The court jester / Stepney Underwood -- I can't read no writin' / Emma Crockett -- They called us McCullough's free Niggers / Mandy McCullough Cosby -- She can just remember her husband's name / Sara Colquitt -- Homesick for old scenes / Clara Davis -- Wed in the white folks' parlor / Matilda Pugh Daniel -- Plantation punishment / Carrie Davis -- Wealth in the bodies and souls of men was slipping away / Louis Hughes.
Subject Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Biography.
Enslaved persons.
Alabama.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Enslaved persons -- North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
North Carolina.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African Americans -- Alabama -- Interviews.
African Americans.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Subject African Americans -- Alabama -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Alabama -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Interviews.
Added Author Williams, Randall, 1951-
ISBN 0895872846 alkaline paper