Ex..slave Stories	Page Two
(Texas)








or a drink of water, jes‘ leaves dem till dey moe‘ dead, Does dey die, jes‘ put dem in a box and. dig a hole out back of de hoes lot and. dump dem in and cover up. Ain‘t no preachin‘ service or nothin‘, but de poornigger out he mis‘ry, dat‘s all.

	“Old Cap‘n jes‘ hard on he niggers and I ‘member one time dey strops old Beans what‘s so old he can‘t work good no more, and in de mornin‘ dey fi nô~s him hangin‘ from a tree back of de quarters . He done hang himself to ‘scape he mis‘ry!

	“We works every day ‘cept Sunday and has to do our washin‘ den. Does anybody git s ick week days ‚ he has t o work Sunday t omaic ~ e t up • When we comes in at night we baa to ~o ri~at to bed. Dey don‘t ‘low no light in de quarters and yot~ better be in bed if you don ‚ t want a whippin‘.

	“We gits a plain cotton sup with a string ‘ro~nd de neck, de stuff dey makes pickin‘ sacks of. St~mmer or winter, dat all we gita to wear.

	“Old Cap‘n have a big house but I jes‘ see it from de quarters, tcause

we wasn‘t ‘lowed tà go up in de yard. I hear say he don‘t have no wife, ~xt

a black woman what stays at de house, Dat de reason so many ‘No Nation‘

niggers ‘round. Some calls dem ‘Bright‘ nig~ers, bi~t I calls dein ‘No Nation‘

O ~ ~ dat what dey s ‚ am‘ t all black or al 1 whit e ‚ but mix. Dat o orne from

slave times.

	NI knows X‘s good size when Old Oap‘n calls us in and say we‘s free, bu.t nobody tell me how old. I is and I never found out. I kiowa some of us stays and works for somethin‘ to eat, ‘cause we didn‘t know no one and didn‘t