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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Frank foun' us a place to work an' put us all in de fiel'. I never had worked in de fiel' before. I'd faint away mos' ever'day 'bout eleven o'clock. It was de heat. Some of 'em would have to tote me to de house. I'd soon come to. Den I had to go back to de fiel'. Us was on Marse Davis Cox's place den. "Two years later I met Pet Franks an' us married.
Dat night, all de sho' 'nough white men came a-marchin' out Seventh Street on dey way to de quarters. "I had did up Miss Lizzie's parlor curtains dat very day an' de boy was puttin' up de mouldin' frame 'roun' 'em when us hear dat trompin' soun'. It didn' soun' lak no ever'day marchin'. It soun' lak Judgement Day. De boy fell off de ladder an' run an' hid b'hind de flour barrel in de pantry.
"Our clo'es was all wove and made on de plan'ation. Our ever'day ones, we called 'hick'ry strips. We had a' plen'y er good uns. We was fitted out an' out each season, an' had two pairs of shoes, an' all de snuff an' 'bacco we wanted every month. "No, not any weddin's. It was kinder dis way.
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