ak'rs

Updated: May 11, 2025

W'en de lamp mans would kum 'round en lite de lamps dey would yell out "all ez well" en I also members de Southern money goin' out en Yankee money kum'n in, en also w'en dere wuzn't any coal 'yer en eve'ythin' wuz wood en mos' ob dis town wuz in de woods." "De slaves wuz tole dey would git forty ak'rs ob groun' en a mule w'en dey wuz freed but dey nebber got hit.

United States. Work Projects Administration - Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States : From Interviews with Former Slaves : Tennessee Narratives