lawde

Updated: May 15, 2025

De Mrs. like me and she like me and she say effen you want sompin ask foh it, anytime you want sompin or haff to have, get it. I didn suffer for enythin befoh dim Yankees come." "After de Yankees come even de house people, de white people didn get shoes. But I hab some, I save. I have some othah shoes I didn dare go in de house with. Da had wood soles. Oh Lawde how da hurt mah feet.

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