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Updated: June 13, 2025
I wuz raised on a fahm right wif the, then I lef there. "Yes, Cap'n Hester traded my mother an my sister, 'Twuz in 1861, he sent em tuh Mississippi. When they wuz 'way from him 'bout two years he bot em back. Yes, he wuz good tuh us. I wuz my mistess' boy. I looked afteh her, en she made all uv my cloes, en she knit my socks, 'cause I wuz her niggah.
Thar was thirty-three when we left our plantation seven miles below Memphis, 'bout three weeks ago, but some of our people stopped at Memphis when we came up the river." As I was interested in her recital, she became more excited in giving details, and said: "Mistess got mighty feared of black smoke, an' watched boats mighty close.
Now, if the Yankees do stop, you all run and hide, won't you? I looked too, but didn't answer till I see the big rope flung on the bank. An' mistess got wild-like. 'Yes, they are stoppin'. Mill an' Jule run, tell all the niggers in the quarters to run to the woods an' hide; quick, for they kills niggers. Mill, why don't you go?
I was glad to see it go to gov'ment." The tears coursed down her care-worn cheeks as she related the sale of her three older children. "I fell upon my knees afore master an' mistess, an' begged 'em not to sell my poor childern down the river, whar I could never see or hear from 'em any more. But master say it's none o' my business, an' I should stop my noise, or he'd have me punished.
She became so excited she acted the part of her mistress admirably in the half-bent, whining, crying, and wringing of hands, as she followed them to the door. "How did you feel about that silver plate that was bought with the price of your three children? Didn't you think you ought to have it?" "O'no, I couldn't touch it. It was part o' my poor dear childern; but I didn't want mistess to keep it.
Before the sisters had time to thaw, their messenger re-entered, saying: "Mistess will 'ceive Miss Nora into de drawing-room." Nora arose in trepidation to obey the summons. Jovial led her along a spacious, well-lighted passage, through an open door, on the left side of which she saw the dining-room and the dinner-table, at which Mr.
My mammy had to work in da house an' in de fiel' wid all de other niggers an' I played in de yard wid de little chulluns, bofe white an' black. Sometimes we played 'tossin' de ball' an' sometimes we played 'rap-jacket' an' sometimes 'ketcher. An' when it rained we had to go in de house an' Old Mistess made us behave.
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