~x.~slave Stories	Page Two
	(Texas)		.	I




‘I‘s too lii‘ to wo‘k much but I ‘member lotes things. Us bave

a big dinin‘—roo~n with a big, long table for de cullud. folks and us

git jus‘ the same kin‘ o.f food. dat the white folks have on dere table.

S ~ ifen a nigger sass marste r and he couldn‘ C ontrol him, he w~e de fuse

one to be sol‘ and git rid of. E. sol‘ my uncle dat way. But mareter was good to us when we done right.

“The nigger women spinned and weaved cloth. I ‚ e1 dat ‚ s

the	‘ place in Jasper whai‘ you could go any t ime of day and. see a parlor full of nigger women, sittin‘ up dere fat as dey could be and. with lii‘ to d~O. Mareter have no plantation for de men to wotk but he rinted. lan‘ for tnem to cult‘vate.

“M~9X~et er ‚ s niggers all got Sunci~r clothes and shoe s . Every one

o1~ dem have to dress and come to the parlor so he coald look dein over a for. dey goes to church.

“Us i~ave a foreman, name C~arli e • It wai iii e duty t o keep de

place stock‘ wltii wood. He talc. slaves and vo‘k de wood patckiee when it needed, but ouct marster cows borne trom New Orleans and toting dew all sur fer in ~ xor want or fire. He call oie Cxiarl te and ask him why he not git up plenty wood. ‘Veil,‘ ob. Cnaxlio say, ‘~od was sAort and. ‘fors I could git *ore dis col‘ spell come and. it too awful col‘ tà git wood.‘ Marster s~q, ‘You keep plenty wood or I gwinter sell you5 to a mean marster. ‚ Charlie git better for a while ‚ then he let wood git low again. So ~e was sol‘ to Bellard. Ad.aws, who had the name of bein‘ hard on hie slaves. Charlie couldn‘ do enough wo‘k to suit Mareter Adams, eo he put hia in what‘s knowed as the ‘Louisiana shirt.‘