Author: Hurmence, Belinda, edited by,
Title: We Lived in a Little Cabin in the Yard.
Description: Winston-Salem, NC, John F. Blair, (2006). 8th ptg. VG PB. These ex-slaves were in their declining years by the time of the Great Depression but they provided a priceless record of. life under the yoke, where slaves lived, how they were treated, what they ate, how they worked, how they adjusted to freedom. Interviews of 21 former Virginia slaves, companion to My Folks Don't Want Me to Talk about Slavery and Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember. "Shep Miller was my master. Bought my mother, a little girl, when he was married. She was a real Christian and he respected her a little. Didn't beat her so much.".

Keywords:


See more books from our catalog: History