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Speaking Out: Quotes from Former Slaves

Speaking Out: Quotes from Former Slaves. Deborah Cooper Starr Elementary. Introduction. Between 1932 and 1975 former slaves were interviewed. They discussed events from their lives when they were slaves. Now you will read quotes from their interviews.

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Speaking Out: Quotes from Former Slaves

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  1. Speaking Out:Quotes from Former Slaves Deborah Cooper Starr Elementary

  2. Introduction Between 1932 and 1975 former slaves were interviewed. They discussed events from their lives when they were slaves. Now you will read quotes from their interviews. Quotes and photographs were taken from the Slave Narratives found at the Library of Congress.

  3. Fountain Hughes Age 1o1 • “You wasn't no more than a dog to some of them in them days. You wasn't treated as good as they treat dogs now. But still I didn't like to talk about it. Because it makes, makes people feel bad you know. Uh, I, I could say a whole lot I don't like to say. And I won't say a whole lot more."

  4. Sarah Frances Shaw Graves Age 87 “When we was freed all the money my mama had was 50 cents. I never went to school till after I was freed.”

  5. Sarah Gudger Age 121 “He tie yo’ hands afoah yo’ body an’ whup yo’, jes lak yo’ a mule. Lawdy honey, I’s tuk a thousand lashins in mah day. Sometimes mah poah ole body be soah foah a week.”

  6. Charley Williams Age 94 “He didn’t have to whup nobody very often, but he only had to whup um jest one time.”

  7. Tempie Cummins Age unknown “I slep on a pallet on the floor. They give me a homespun dress once a year at Christmas time.” “Weht barefoot summer and winter til the feets crack open.”

  8. William Moore Age 82 “We had a purty hard time to make out and was hongry lots of times. Marse Tom didn’t feel called on to feed his hands any too much.”

  9. Walter Rimm Age 80 “Dem sales am onething what make de’ pression on me. I hears de old folks whisper ‘bout gwine have de sale and bout noon dere am a crowd of white folks in de front yard and a trader with he slaves.”

  10. John W. Fields Age 89 “We were never allowed to go to town and it was not until after I ran away that I knew that they sold anything but slaves, tobacco, and whiskey. Our ignorance was the greatest hold the South had on us. We knew we could run away, but what then? An offender guilty of this crime was subjected to very harsh punishment."

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