When I gits married it was eight folkses dere, I jus' walks off and goes to housekeepin'.
Atter de surrender our white folkses comes back an' we stays on five or six years I reckon, den we moves ter Mis' Emma Greens' place five miles furder in de country.
Dey robbed defolkses an' a whole lot of darkies what ain't never been whupped by de master got a whuppin' from de Yankee soldiers.
All my white folkses wuz good ter me, an' I reckon dat I ain't got no cause fer complaint.
Den she tells de folksesdat Jim an' Sam am de guilty parties, but her little sister swears dat dey ain't so dey gits out of it.
Most of de white wimmens had ter live by dere selves durin' de time dat de men folkses wuz away at de war, but de niggers in our neighborhood stuck ter de missus an' dar ain't no niggers from other plantations come dar ter insult 'em nother.
I hyard grown folkses praisen' Lincoln but I doan know much 'bout him.
She tol' dem not ter tell hit an' dey doan tell, but when dey is out of sight of de white folkses dey bows down ter her an' does what she says.
Dese colored folksesam named Berry an' my mammy am stayin' dar when she falls in love wid my paw, Jake Sorrell, an' marries him.
De folkses quit bringin' dere co'n ter be groun' an' he 'gan ter git pore.
I wuz mighty proud when I could do up a weeks washin' and take it back to my white folkses and git sho' 'nuff money for my wuk.
Us had awful good times den, 'cause de white folkses at de big house give us plenty of goodies for Chris'mas week and us had fidlin' and dancin'.
Dat's how dem caves was found; by white folkses huntin' runaway slaves.
Most and gen'ally finders was keepers far as aigs was consarnt but, in spite of all dat, us allus had plenty, and Mistess would find somepin' to give folkses dat needed to be holped.
Dere sho' was a big crowd of folkses dar, 'cause evvybody loved Mistus; she was so good to evvybody.
Dey just don't know 'cause my white folkses wuz all good to me, and I loves 'em all.
Old folkses said dey had done been fetched to dis country on boats.
It was de white folkses church, but dey let deir own Niggers join dar too, and how us chillun did love to play 'round it.
Dem old slavery-time weddin's warn't lak de way folkses does when dey gits married up now; dey never had to buy no license den.
When de boats was full of dem foolish Niggers, de slave dealers would sail off wid 'em and fetch 'em to dis country to sell 'em to folkses what had plantations.
All I knows 'bout slavery time is what I heared folkses say, for de war was most over when I was borned, but things hadn't changed much, as I was raised up.
Folkses high und low is ergwine to look skornful, wid dere fingers pinted at de gal, und ax deyselves how cum she jined herself to ole marser, wid wun foot in de grave, jes to suck sorrer arter he is dun und gon.
Hit's a good thing dat none of de white folkses ain't went to de funerals case iffen dey had de niggers can't sing deir hymns.
I lak de white folkses an' dey laks me but I'll tell yo' Miss, I'd ruther be a nigger any day dan to be lak my ole white folks wuz.
Some of de white folkses wuz slaves, ter git ter de United States an' we niggers ain't no better, I reckons.
Dey doctored lots of people an' our folkses ain't neber had no doctor fer nothin' dat happen.
He had stold something, dey tells me, anyhow he wuz sentenced ter be put ter death, an' de folkses dar in charge 'cided ter beat him ter death.
Well de first year I slept in folkses woodhouses an' barns an' in de woods or any whar else I could find.
De Yankees takes all de meat outen de smokehouse an' goes 'roun' ter de slave cabins an' takes de meat what de white folkses has put dar.
I 'member goin' one time to the white folkses church, no baptizing dat I 'member.
Atter so long a time de rich folkses tried ter hire, er make de po' white trash go in dere places, but some of dem won't go.
For the fun'ral dey built a brush arbor in front of de white folkses church, and de white preacher preached de fun'ral sermon, and white folkses would come lissen to slave fun'rals.
Dey took grandma to de kitchen and told ma to give her some of de white folkses dinner.
I don't know what de others had in dey cabins 'cause ma didn't 'low her chillun to visit 'round de other folkses none.
Its de devil makes folkses do bad, and dey all better change and serve God-a-Mighty, so as he kin save 'em before its too late.
All de chillun slept in one end room and de grown folkses slept in de other end room.
Next day I went to see de white folkses what had lived dar 'fore us moved in, and de husband tole me not to worry, dat it wuz his wife's ha'nt.
She say it lonesome off on the plantation and axed Marster for to sell her to folkses livin' in town.
When slaves got married, de man had to ax de gal's ma and pa for her and den he had to ax de white folkses to 'low 'em to git married.
On bright moonshiny nights folkses would invite de neighbors to come for cotton pickin's.
Yes, ma'am dere sho' wasfolkses what could put spells on you.
Sometimes dey stewed fish for old folkses to eat, but young folkses loved 'em fried best.
Easter is my right name, but white folksescalls me Esther.
Folkses what had wells used to put milk in buckets and let 'em down in de well wid ropes, and dat milk would keep good and cool down dar.
Our whitefolkses give us lots of cake, turkey, ham, and sich lak for de weddin' feast.
Anyhow I seed a heaps of folksesdied out and git put in dem home-made coffins what was black as sin.
Atter de Yankees lef' de Niggers brung back de white folkses victuals 'cause dey was our own white folkses and dey had allus done give us plenty of evvything.
Marster 'vited all de other white folksesand dey brung deir Niggers 'long.
White folkses had lots of comp'ny, and dey had de cook fix de mostes' good things for 'em.
Pears like dey's been mighty hard on de ole town, sence trade fell off, an' mos' of de folkses moved away.
I jes' want ter ax thefolkses ter tell me the way ter Birk's Mill.
An' air it folkses ez live underground like foxes an' sech!
I jest said, says I, 'I overworked it tryin' to see too fur into otherfolkses business.
JIM: I'd rather eat stewed fish-heads than steal out of other folkses houses so much till you went to sleep on the roost and fell down one night and broke up the settin' hen.
Marse Tom he wud ride out ober de place at least once a week en always on er Sattidy mornin, en ginerally he wud pass de word out mongst de folkses fer em all ter cum ter de big house er Sattidy atter noon fer er frolic.
Folkses hed cotton piled up all er round dey houses en I cided rite off dat dis war gwine ter be my home den.
Some folkses heads hain't got so much sense in 'em as others.
They looked at me real stiddy and I went on, "You may think you hain't so guilty because you only take folkses heads.
Ma combed our hair wid a Jim Crow comb, or cyard, as some folkses called 'em.
Folkses would quilt some an' den dey passed 'roun' de toddy.
I married at my Ma's house, but my white folkses was all right dar, and dey had done fixed de house up pretty wid flowers all over it.
Mr. Steve and his folksescomes to see me sometimes and I'se allus powerful glad to see 'em.
Folkses says dat when Old Dives done so bad he had to go to de bad place, a dog was sot at his heels for to keep him in dar.
Dey stopped so often to swig dat corn liquor Marster pervided for 'em dat 'fore midnight folkses started fallin' out and drappin' down in de middle of de dance ring.
Folkses warn't sick much in dem days lak dey is now, but now us don't eat strong victuals no more.
Folkses would see 'em comin' and holler out: 'De Ku Kluxers is ridin' tonight.
My w'ite folkses begged me not to leave 'em, when I told 'em I wuz gwine to marry Joe Telfair.
When slaves died, dey made coffins out of pine wood and buried 'em whar de white folkses was buried.
Atter he had all his corn gathered and put in big long piles, Marster 'vited de folkses from all 'round dem parts.
Not long atter dat, Daddy bid for de contract to carry de mail and he got de place, but it made de white folksesmighty mad, 'cause some white folkses had put in bids for dat contract.
Dem Niggers never stopped prayin' and testifyin' to de Lord, 'til de white folkses had done got dat runaway slave and de rooster out of de steeple.
But dem quality folkses sho' was tickled erbout dat one-laiged goose.
Some folkses back doors are a abomination when their front doors are full of ornament.
The Schuylers, with Sydney and John, were in the Oakwood surrey, while Vandeborough cantered behind to take care of the horses "while de white folkses eats.
They's some w'ite folkses w'ich claims the run of black folks nowadays ain't got no proper sense of gratitudes nor faithfulness, neither.
I don't know how many folkses he's killed in his life, but he must bury his dead where they falls, because I ain't never had none of the gravestones pointed out to me.
It is their jesture of contempt for their nearest white neighbors who "dont seem to care whedder folkses know whar dey lib an maybe don wants em to.
Dey wasnt teached manners and 'havior in odder folkses houses like what I war.
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