Evvy place whar dey was a-goin' to celebrate tuk time off to cook up a lot of tasty eatments, 'specially to barbecue plenty of good meat.
None of us had nowhar else to go and 'sides nobody wanted to go nowhar else, so evvy one of Marse Joe's Negroes stayed right on wid him dat next year.
He would plant his craps evvy year and den, Missy, he would go plumb crazy evvyblessed year.
I'se gwine to whup evvyone of 'em, he would 'clare.
He told us he had done tried to be good to us and had done de best he could for us and dat he was mighty proud of de way evvy one of us had done 'haved ourselfs.
I tuk de chillun to ride evvy day and down at de crick, I pulled off dey clo'es and baptized 'em, in de water.
It would be fine effen evvy Negro had a marster like Jedge Lumpkin, but dey won't all dat sort.
I puts my nicest flowers in 'em evvy year as a sort of memorial to the ones that didn't git to fetch their helmets back home.
Dere warn't no runnin' off to de sto' evvy time dey started cookin' a company meal.
Dat ain't all; de same Good Lawd is gwine to lick you a thousand lashes forevvy time you is done made fun of dis very meetin'.
Pegleg made de evvy day shoes for Marse Billie's own chilluns, 'cept now en den Marse Billie fetched 'em home some sto' bought shoes fun Jools.
Evvy time he got out he would fight us chillun, so Marster had to keep him fastened up in de stable.
He made de chimbly out of sticks an' red mud, an' put iron bars crost de fireplace to hang pots on for to bile our vittuls an' made ovens for de bakin'.
Well, they had a young baby that tuck sick and died so they had the baby's funeral there in Macon; then they put the coffin in the box, placed the label on the box, then brought it ter Atlanta.
He states that he himself did not know whether Sherman intended to keep him in slavery or free him.
If you hear a voice call you and you are not sure it is really someone, don't answer because it may be your spirit, and if you answer it will be a sure sign of death.
I never was scared of none of 'em, so I told 'em if they touched my husband they wouldn't touch nothin' else.
I don't 'member what gals played when I was little, but boys played ball all day long if dey was 'lowed to.
On Sunday morning old Marster sent de house girl and tell us to all come to de house.
De petticoat had ruffles an' puffs plum up to de wais' ban'.
The one difficulty in this procedure was having to "set up" at a fork or cross roads.
In slavery time, if you wanted four or five acres of land to plant anything on, marster give it to you, and whatever dat land make, it belong to you.
When I went back he says ter me, 'Emmaline, have you got 8 dimes?
The only time that this diet ever varied was at Christmas time when the master had all slaves gathered in one large field.
Grown folks had rabbits and 'possums but I never did get much 'quainted with them.
The chimney and fireplace were made of mud, sticks and stones.
Marse Ike, he kep' plenty of evvysort of meat folkses knowed about dem days.
He had his own beef cattle, lots of sheep, and he killed more'n a hunnert hogs evvy year.
Our brush arbor church wuz nigh whar Brooklyn Mount Pleasant Church is now, an' us went to Sunday School dar evvy Sunday.
I used to cry and holler evvy time Miss Serena went off and left me.
Marse Bob, he give Daddy a ticket what let him go to see Mammy evvy Wednesday and Sadday night, and dem patterollers couldn't bother him long as he kept dat ticket.
If us didn't tighten 'em evvy few days dem beds was apt to fall down wid us.
He let 'em have dances, and evvy Fourth of July he had big barbecues.
Dey made me study too, and I sho did hate to have to go to school to my own aister for she evermore did take evvy chance to lay dat stick on me, but I s'pects she had a right tough time wid me.
He had to be grez all over evvy day wid hoalin' ointment for a long time 'fore dem gashes got well.
A man comes here early evvy mornin' and dresses dis yard down wid conjuration.
Stiles Vinson was de carriage driver, and he fotched Marse Ike out to de plantation evvy day.
Evvy time de gen'ral would speed up de song, de Niggers would speed up deir corn shuckin's.
I had to go wid de white chillun to deir school on Hog Mountain road evvy day to wait on 'em.
I never will forgit pore old Aunt Mary; she was our cook, and she had to be tapped evvy now and den 'cause she had de drapsy so bad.
He sont his houseboy, Uncle Harris, down to de cabins evvy Sunday mornin' to tell evvy slave to clean hisself up.
He sends for me nearly evvy summer and I enjoy visitin' dar, but I wouldn't lak to live up dar 'cause dem folks ain't lak our own southern people.
It wuz plumb full of meat, and evvy slave had his meat rations weighed out reg'lar.
Grandpa Stafford had a sore laig and Marse Lordnorth looked atter him and had Uncle Jim dress dat pore old sore laig evvy day.
He paid us $10 a month and he 'lowanced out de rations to us evvy week; most allus on Monday 'cause Sundays us had 'nough company to eat it all at one time.
Evvy lick dey struck him meant he wuz hit nine times, an' it fotch da red evvy time it struck.
Dey beat you wid a cowhide lash what cut a gash in your back evvy time it struck you.
Our beds was held together by cords what was twisted evvy which way.
Us wore de same on Sunday as evvy day, 'cept dat our clothes was clean, and stiff wid meal starch when us got into 'em on Sunday mornin's.
Evvy day de preacher would come read de Bible to him, and when de 30 days wuz up, den dey would hang him by de neck 'til he died.
Evvy slave had a task to do atter dey got back to dem cabins at night.
Evvy time I moved at night it sounded lak de wind blowin' through dem peach trees and bamboos 'round de front of de house whar I lives now.
If a man married up wid somebody on another place, he had to git a pass from his Marster, so as he could go see his wife evvy Wednesday and Sadday nights.
Evvy time Pappy runned away Marse Billy sicked dem hounds on his heels and dey was sho' to ketch him and fetch him back.
An faw evvy school house so billden sed Company Limited shell be likewise boun to bill another sommers in the three Counties where a equal or greater number of collared children are without one.
Evvy going East for the firm every year, and Muriel getting her little twenty-five a week.
Evvy you couldn't marry off if she was Cleopatra on the Nile, and poor Julia could hang smallpox flags all over her, and every man in the place'd want her jest the same!
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