cockrills

Updated: June 18, 2025

I member I didn't know nothin' bout my mother and father cause it was night when they went to work and night when they come in and we chilluns would be under the bed asleep. "I know the white folks had a kitchen full of we chilluns. We went over to the kitchen to eat. "My mother belonged to the Cockrills and my father belonged to the Armstrongs. They were cousins and their plantations joined.

United States. Work Projects Administration - Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States: From Interviews with Former Slaves: Arkansas Narratives, Part 6