texas slave narratives index

age, and I have included the approximate year of birth, and how They come from Georgia. Gordon (G. Keith) Narratives, ca. Natchez Trace Slaves and Slavery Collection, 1793–1864. Probate records relate to the estate of Benjamin Roach, Sr., a wealthy planter and slave owner in several Mississippi counties. He was sho' a big man, weighed more'n 200 pounds. "Niggers didn't cou't then like they do now, massa pick out a po'tly man and a po'tly gal and jist put 'em together. You's made to work for white folks.' "Huh! The first school was built They is lesser prophets, but I is the main one. He say, 'I's all right in my health but I ain't so good in my mind.' Thornwell, James Henley. (2 ft., 8 1/2 in.). Now, George know of some folks what am whupped for no-cause, so he prepare for dem white caps. ", Hall (James Madison) Family Papers, 1813, 1840–1980. Found in Box 2R132. farmers, laborers, draymen, barbers, servants, cooks and blacksmiths. He drempt it on a Friday The reels is what I used to like but I done quit that foolishness many a year ago. They live in a neat three-room shack in Sunny South addition of Marshall, Texas. These records are so valuable "Our old master's name was John Mann but they called him Capt. I 'member old Jerry sings, 'Free, free as de jaybird, free to flew like de jaybird. Wall's place in Virgini'. But when you has live in slave times you ain't gwine forgit dem, no, suh! They lived in li'l houses round the edge of the field. At mealtime they hand me a piece of cornbread and tell me 'Run 'long.' Cox wh. De men and women didn' do like dey do now. African Americans were Please feel free to contact me for further information. Ar'n't I a Woman? I became a great prophet by fastin' and prayin'. working for the mills and in the logging fronts, and other occupations as Waller, Trinity County Historical Commission. Beginnings, Patricia and Joseph Hensley, 1986 and research by Susanne Kuhns, Frederick Irving. have information, photos or stories you wish to share please contact me at Seems like they fit every time they git a chance. and Wade Hampton f.b. "My mother's name was Mariah Watkins an' my father was named Henry Watkins. "My father told us when freedom come. Brooklyn, NY: CompuBibs, 1984. Afore to that time, they ain't never had no hoe in the field for me a-tall. Dey takes care of me, and dat all I know 'bout myself. I had seven brothers call Frank and Benjamin and Richardson and Anderson and Miles, Emanuel and Gill, and three sisters call Milanda, Evaline and Sallie, but I don't know if any of 'em are livin' now. He is a man dat buys and sells cattle. (13 ft., 9 in.). file and may take a minute to upload. My marster had a driver but he say his niggers was human, wid human feelin's, so he makes dat driver reports to him fer what little thrashin's we gits. My brother say, 'Wait for pa, he comin' with the mule and he'll hide you out.' And he used to make spinning wheels and parts of looms. "When old master come to the lot and hear the men singin' like that, he say, 'Them boys is lively this mornin', I's gwine git a big day's plowin' done. 1870 US Federal Census African American-Alpha Index   Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association, 19?. By 1884 the school was named Pine At first us start jokin' with each other, den starts to sing and everybody am happy. It a piece of young massa's coat and de bullet have carry it into de flesh and it am dere a whole year. We had de parties dere in a big double log house. Wouldn' you be? is dedicated to African American's that I have researched and from families Many's the time I's bled from them whippin's. I stays till I'm eighteen year and den I works for a farmer den for a blacksmith den some carpenter work and some railroadin'. Dixon, Assistant Secretary, J.W. He'd been a free man, 'cause he was bodyguard to the old, old master and when he died he give my father he freedom. (7 in.). Dey not 'nough red ears to suit us. House of Representatives. Thomas Bacon. Dere am fightin' 'twixt white and cullud folks over votin' and sich. Fumas, J. C. Goodbye to Uncle Tom. Mose Hursey believes he is about eighty-two years old. That the only way to cotch them, 'cause they so wild you couldn't git a fair shot with a rifle. Bourne, George. She was raised in Grant's colony and her father was a blacksmith. "We went to a place called Mantua, or somethin' like that. I jus' set 'round. Washington DC: Govt. I gits so scairt I can't eat my dinner. Some of the Bowie materials are photocopies. The American Slave: a Composite Autobiography: Supplement, Series 2. Letter to A.M. Alexander from Sam Houston concerning Houston's oppostition to secessionist efforts and compromise measures on the extension of slavery, September 8, 1857; Huntsville, Texas. We slep' in wooden beds what had corded rope mattresses. Billings, MT, 1959. "I's worked at dat racin' business 'til I's come to Texas and when I went to work in hotels dat killed me up. How's we eat it? They's the loveliest days that ever they was. I does dat most my life. Them was bad times. The Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims. A Sermon Preached at the Dedication of a Church Erected in Charleston, S. C., for the Benefit and Instruction of the Coloured Population. Washington: Globe Office, 1850. Papers relating to the extended family of Rebecca McIntosh Hawkins Hagerty, a three-quarter Creek Indian who was the only woman in Texas owning more than 100 slaves in 1860. "Some de cullud folks stays and some goes. My father's name was Jim Starkins and my mother's name was Charlotte Brooks and both of 'em come from Alabama. owners share-cropping, but soon began to acquire their own property and When five I's sho' sorry when we's sot free. Slavery (Cases involving it in Texas). website American Memory Home has two set of Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives ~ Audio Interviews I worked two months and went to school one month and that way I made money to take care of 'em. He ain't used to that and it give him fever to the brain and he dies. Texas Treasures - Slavery - Texas State Library. 'Bout that time she look up and see a Yankee sojer standin' in the door with a pistol. All de marsters and dere black boys from plantations from miles 'round would be dere. Jubilee - The end of slavery in America! He'd whip the man for half doin' the plowin' or hoein' but if they done it right he'd find something else to whip them for. Sat'day night we would have parties and dance and play ring plays. "Me and my man didn't have nothin' when we left Nacogdoches, but we works hard and saves our money and buyed this farm. He thought consid'ble plenty of me. De cabin am 'bout ten by twenty feet and jus' one room. In the 1880 Census there (included area southeast of county, including the Lacy community); Justice They give some of 'em 300 or 400 licks. Then she run away and in the night she slip into a big ravine near the house and have them bring me to her. Texas. ), "The African Slave Trade of the Texas Gulf Coast. Git! Niggers had better let that ham alone! the Briscoe Center | Contact Forms part of the Natchez Trace Small Manuscript Collection. began to develop. More information about the index. Master had fifty head of cows, too, and they was plenty wild game. Dat am in Alabamy. They'd have a big ball in a big barn there on the place and sixty and seventy on the floor at once, singin': "'Juba this and Juba that, (1 in.). I run round and round and she call her mother and they catch and whip me. Another area where a number Includes correspondence concerning a runaway slave (1846) and an itemized account listing the charges for hiring out slaves (1840–1844). community, similar to the Nigton community prospered for many years and 571 (as enumerated) people are stated as being born in Texas, 362 of these Him jus' go 'mongst de folks and say, 'Well, folks, yous am free now and no longer my prop'ty, and yous 'titled to pay for work. Alice Houston, pioneer nurse and midwife on whom many San Angeloans have relied for years, was born October 22, 1859. covered the southwest part of the county which included the town of My dress was usually split from hem to neck and I had to wear them till they was strings. A letter from the Shaker Society describes one of their publications. I had broadcloth clothes, a blue jean overcoat and good shoes and boots. Marse Boling didn't buy my brother and sister, so that made me the olderest child and the onliest one. "I used to steal some chickens, 'cause we didn't have 'nough to eat, and I don' think I done wrong, 'cause the place was full of 'em. One day my sister call me and say, 'They's fit out, and they's been surrenderin' and ain't gwine fight no more.' They says, 'What the matter, Creame?' Mississippi Slave Narratives: In the late 1930s, Federal Writers as part of the Works Project Administration (WPA) recorded the life stories of more than 10,000 men and women from a variety of regions, occupations and ethnic groups. I seed him whup 'em, though. Of the remaining 1017, there Lizzie Hughes, blind Negress of Harrison County, Texas, was born on Christmas Day, 1848, a slave of Dr. Newton Fall, near Nacogdoches. to Jefferson. In the book, A sho' I was a slave an' I aint ashamed to admit dat I was. Subscription list for printing of Sam Houston speech on Nebraska Bill. Wylie (Sarah H.) Narratives, 1861–1865. 1817–1860. (17 ft., 5 in. My brudders done lef' massa after the war and move nex' door to the Ware place, and one Saturday some niggers come and tell me my brudder Peter am comin' to git me 'way from old missy Sunday night. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981. Juneteenth and Other Freedom Celebrations. The officers were J.C. Carter, President, W.E. She was a slave of Washington Greenlee Foley and his grandson, John Woods. Born in Palestine, Texas, Prather was owner of a restaurant and the Bowie Knife Museum in Alexandria, Louisiana. Emancipation in Texas "I 'member that fight at Mansfield like it yes'day. Alice relates her slave day experiences as follows: "I was jes' a little chile when dat Civil War broke out and I's had de bes' white folks in de world. I 'member the men go out in the mornin', singin': "'I went to the barn with a shinin', bright moon, Brown (1817–1889) recalls his naval studies and his service in the West Indies, in the Gulf of Mexico, in Florida during the Seminole War, as well as his adventures on his first voyage around the world and his experiences with the Confederate Navy in 1861–1862. 1872–1873. were approximately 100 African American people living in Nigton area and 100 in 1916, by V. White and J.B. Eastep for a total of $919.00, and was a two-story building. Curtis, Anna Louise. Den when we got de corn pile high as dis house, de table was spread out under de shade. vegetable production during it's most prosperous time. He telled us dat de gov'ment goin' to give us 40 acres of land and a pair of mules, but we didn' git nothin'. Papers of judge John Dutton (d. ca. Her husband and her three children are dead and she is supported by Griffin Williams, a boy she found homeless and reared. Longino, and M.D. beginning on page 23, she writes about the J.T. (freedwoman) The sojers used to pass and all the whoopin' and hollerin' and carryin' on, you ain't never heered the likes! Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1981.