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Updated: May 25, 2025
"Them's de mos' good fur nuffingest niggahs I ever did see," remarked Mr. Rastus Johnson that was his name with undisguised contempt. Nevertheless by noon the canoes had all been leaded and the farewells to the kind M. Desplaines and his family said.
I disrememba, but I sposen she got buried in dat veil, chile. She hoe de cotton so Ole Marse Louis he always let her off fo de buryings cause she know how to manage de other niggahs and keep dem quiet at de funerls. "No maam, chile, we didn't hab no Preacher-mans much, hit too fah away to git one when de niggah die. We sung songs and my ma she say a Bible vurs what Ole Missy don lernt her.
"La now, misus," said matter-of-fact Aun' Suke, again shaking with mirth at the idea, "you got mo' edication 'n me. Wat de use bein' blin' des on puppose? Hit's broad sun-up. Why not des look at tings ez dey iz? Sabe a heap ob trouble. Yere, you lil niggahs, hep right smart or you neber get yo' breakfas'." Mrs.
"No, missus, I don't; but I does know that they don't 'long around in dis part of the country. That Cap'n Beardsley, he brung 'em up from Newbern." "Do you know what you are saying?" demanded Marcy. "Who told you that improbable story?" "G'long now, honey," answered Morris good-naturedly. "Mebbe de niggahs all fools, but they know a heap.
"The ole woman means," she said, looking him steadily in the eye, "that you are dealin' in chile slavery, law or no law; that you're down heah preachin' one thing for niggahs an' practisin' another for yo' own race; that yo' hair frizzles on yo' head at tho'rt of niggah slavery, whilst all the time you are enslavin' the po' little whites that's got yo' own blood in their veins.
"He says d' French dun whopped d' English, an' a-comin' t' set all d' niggahs free. He says we mus' holp, an' dere won't be no mo' slaves. All ub us be free, jus' like white folks." It took me a minute or two to grasp the full meaning of this extraordinary revelation. "He says the French are coming to set all the niggers free?" I repeated. Sam nodded. "And that the niggers must help them?"
"I thought you were preaching, Uncle Bob," said the Colonel, to whom the elderly Negro had applied for a job. "Yessah, Ah wuz," replied Uncle; "but Ah guess Ah ain't smaht enough to expound de Scriptures. Ah almost stahved to deff tryin' to explain de true meanin' uv de line what says 'De Gospel am free, Dem fool niggahs thought dat it meant dat Ah wuzn't to git no salary."
He was a living instance of the truth that artists are born, not made. No knowledge of this gifted class had ever suggested kinship; he did not even know what the word meant, but when his cheek rested lovingly against his violin he felt that he was made of different clay from other "niggahs."
They's a whipping the slaves all the time, but ah run away all the time. And ah jus' tell them if they whipped me, ah'd kill 'em, and ah nevah did get a whippin'. If ah thought one was comin' to me, Ah'd hide in the woods; then they'd send aftah me, and they say, 'Come, on back we won't whip you'. But they killed some of the niggahs, whipped 'em to death.
As a rule, the more abjectly poor a Southerner was, the more readily he worked himself into a rage over the idea of "takin' away ouah niggahs." I replied in burlesque of his assumption of ownership: "What are you coming up North to burn my rolling mills and rob my comrade here's bank, and plunder my brother's store, and burn down my uncle's factories?" No reply, to this counter thrust.
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