Old Man Burns was hired at the courthouse, and if the marsters had slaves that they didn't want to whip, they would send them to the courthouse to be whipped.
All de marsters and dere black boys from plantations from miles 'round would be dere.
Dey was all along in a row and built out of de same kind of logs what our marsters house was.
It's a pretty hard story, how cruel some of themarsters was, but I had the luck to be with good white people.
You know, in slavery times when dey had bad marsters dey'd run away, but we didn' want to.
One of our Marsters was killed in de war and brought home and buried.
My last Marsters was two brothers an' dey had one sister, Miss Sarah Smarr.
De marsters sont notes from one plantation to anudder, an' when dey wanted de niggers to come to de Big House dey would blow an ole cow horn.
Some Marsters wud whoop ther slaves til the blood would run down daw backs dese slaves would run away sometimes den sum would come to Ise Marse and would have to send dem back to dar own marsters and how my ole marster hated to see dem go.
And some marstersor overseers would whip dere niggers pretty hard, sometimes whip 'em to death.
But de nigger husbands wasn't de only ones dat keeps up havin' chillen, 'cause de marsters and de drivers takes all de nigger gals dey wants.
Granddaddy told us 'bout how some slaves used to rum off from deir marsters and live in caves and dugouts.
De mans marster 'ud give de man er pass so he cud go see his wife et night, but he sho' better be back on his own marsters farm when de bell ring evvy morning.
Slaves used to hide in dem same caves when dey was runnin' off from deir marsters or tryin' to keep out of de way of de law.
Us knowed dey won't many marsters as good to dey slaves as Ole Marster wuz to us.
Our ol' marster wus'nt like some of de other marsters in de community--he never did do much whuppin of his slaves.
I heayd 'bout slaves been whipped but I tink de wuz whipped mostly cause de Marsters could whip 'em.
Schools was sot up for slaves not long atter dey was sot free, and a few of de old Marsters give deir Niggers a little land, but not many of 'em done dat.
De marsters would put de dogs after you jes' like a coon.
Some de marsters beat de slave women to make 'em give up to 'em.
De marsters wanted you to increase to give 'em more niggers, but dey didn't had no marryin'.
After freedom was, some de marsters wouldn't tell you.
Miss Ada, Miss Emma, and Miss Mary 'Liza was the young misses, and the young marsters was named George Washin'ton and William Daniel.
De onliest ones of dier chilluns I ricollects now is Miss Bessie, Miss Cora andMarsters Joe, Guy, Marion and Early.
Slaves couldn't git out and do no courtin' on other plantations widout deir marsters knowed it, 'cause dey had to have passes to leave de place whar dey lived.
Some de marsters tied dey niggers to posts and whupped 'em till dey nigh killed 'em.
Us kept dem clean't and ironed jes' like de Marster and de young marsters done their'n.
My white marsters and their mistresses was good to us and to all their slaves.
In 1861, my marsters go away with their neighbors, to fight the damn Yankees and the plantation was left in charge of the mistresses and worked by the slaves.
Dar warnt nary one er old Marsters niggers whut lef him eben when dey set free, dat is dey did'n lebe him fer two er three years eny way, but atter den sum of em started ter driftin er roun en hirin er roun er bout.
When I was a small boy I lay at marsters feet and he would let us play with his feet.
All de bread dat de slabe niggers git wud be made outen cornmeal er dem brown shorts whut de marsters gib 'em in de rashions.
Drummers would come through fum New Orleens and et at ole marsters and bragged on my cookin and tried to git me ter go wif them to New Orleans and cook fuh they wives.
De marsters en de misses, dey look atter dere niggers good do en see dat dey keep demselves clean en 'spectible, en try ter keep de disease outen 'em.
I wud git some of de white folks ter write er letter back dar fer me iffen I know whar ter send hit, er de name of some of my youngmarsters whut mebbe is dar still.
Us wus skeered ter tell dem white folks whut bought us whar us home wus en who us Marsters used ter be, kase we skeered dat de speckle-ladies mout cum bak en steal us sum mo, en tek us er way sum mo.
Men in blue clothes came and put a rope around my marsters neck, took him all around the nigger cabins and asked where he hid them.
De young white marsters break de law when they teach daddy to read and write.
My young marsters was name Marse Johnnie, Marse Clark, Marse Floyd, and Marse Wyatt.
My young marsterswas Marse Tom, Marse Nick, and Marse Austin.
Oh, it was hell when de overseers was around and de mistress nor none of de young marsters was dere to protect you.
I will at another time, Rob; but between the way that Marsters acted, and the caution these people on the Coast impressed on me, it all got on my nerves.
Then mebbe that Marsters did send emissaries along with me to try and steal the product of my brains!
To be beaten in a battle of wits by a mere boy must have riled Mr. Marsters a whole lot.
But, Rob, after all this might only be a big bluff Marsters is putting up.
See, there he goes over yonder, and I'll be a whole lot surprised if we set eyes on Marsters again.
When dese poor white men went to de war, dey left deir little chillun and deir wives in de hands of de darkies dat was kind and de rich wives of our marsters to care fer.
None ever got anything, not even money from de old marsters or anybody.
There was always some old woman too old for field work that nursed the sick on the big plantations, but the marsters sent for regular doctors mighty quick if the patient seemed much sick.
Cause neither one of deir marsters wouldn't sell one of 'em to de other marster, Mammy had to stay on de Jackson plantation and Daddy was kept right on wukin' on de Lowe place atter dey had done got married.
I have seen some marsters make their slaves walk in snow knee deep, barefooted.
The slaves 'tended church with their marsters and after their service was over they would let the slaves hold service.
Didn't none of Old Marsters chillun marry in slavery time, but Old Miss, she let us see a Nigger gal named Frances Hester git married.
Dem days it was de custom for marsters to hire out what slaves dey had dat warn't needed to wuk on deir own land, so our marster hired out two of my sisters.
When slaves got smart wid deir white folkses, deir Marsters would have 'em beat, and dat was de end of de matter.
You know dat's de way dey use ter do back in slavery time, de young Mistesses an' Marsters choosed out de little niggers dey wanted fer their'n.
Long in dem times de slaves sometimes runned away from deir cruel marsters an' dey'd go ter dis nigger at de mill.
When de war ended father come an' got ma an' took her on to his marsters plantation.
Dey tole us to obey our marsters an be obedient at all times.
De marsters kindness to de niggers after de war is de cause of de nigger havin' things today.
De marsters needed 'em to farm dere lan' an' de exslaves just had to have somewhur to live so both parties kept stayin' an' wurkin together.
The preacher told them to obey their marsters and missuses, that the Bible said obey.
Dey took de feather beds in marsters house to de windows, cut dem open an' let de feathers blow away.
Our marsters gave us some money, five and ten cents at a time.
We wus free but we had nothin' 'cept what de marsters give us.
My mother an' father said dey had goodmarsters an' dey were crazy 'bout 'em.
We stayed on atmarsters when de surrender come cause when we wus freed we had nothin' an' nowhere to go.
Dey jus' told dey marsters dey wanted to be husban' and wife and if dey agreed, dat was all dere was to it, dey was said to be married.
Some of de marsters have what dey call stockades and puts dere heads and feet and arms through holes in a big board out in de hot sun, but our old driver he had a bull pen, dats only thing like a jail he had.
He prosecuted some marsters for beatin' the slaves.
But we has to watch the eats, 'cause niggers what they marsters don't give 'em no Christmas sneak over and eat it all up.
The marsters allus put the dogs atter 'em and git 'em back.
When the young marsters and mistesses at the big houses got married they 'lowed the slaves to gadder on the porch and peep through the windows at the weddin'.
I stayed on wid my two good Marsters 'til most 3 years atter de war, and den went to wuk for Marse Tye Elder in Crawfordville.
I sho would ruther have slavery days back if I could have my same good Marsters 'cause I never had no hard times den lak I went through atter dey give us freedom.
When the corn all done been shucked they'd drink the likker the marsters give 'em and then frolic and dance from sundown to sunup.
He couldn't free granpa's chilrun, 'cause they already b'longed to their young marsters and mistises.
My mistis' young husband went to the war, an' all the other young marsters 'round us.
In slavery-time chilluns waren't 'lowed to do no wuk kazen the marsters wanted they niggers to grow up big and strong and didn' want 'em stunted none.
Some of the men's wives belong to other marsterson other plantations.
The marsters married the slaves without any papers.
We wuz skeerd of de Yankees ter start wid, but de more we thinks 'bout us runnin' way frum our marsters de skeerder we gits o' de Rebs.
Some of de marsterswuz good an' some of dem wuz bad.
In some cases where marsters were bad it wus a bad thing.
The slave women went down to marsters for their Sunday allowance of flour.
The marsters would tell the slaves to go to work that they were not free, that they still belonged to them, but one would drop out and leave, then another.
All de slaves lived in one house built about one hundred yards from the great house, marsters house wus called the great house.
So I scraped 'quaintance wid her, and axed her ef she would hab me ef our marsters would let us.
Course, some times dey whup us, but dey didn' gash us lak some o' de old marstersdid dey Niggers.
Dey would have to slip off 'cause dey marsters was afraid dey would git hitched up wid some other black boy er gal on de other plantation an' den dey would either have to buy er sell a nigger 'fo you could git any work out of him.
If all marsters had been good like some, the slaves would all a-been happy.
Some marsters was mean an' hard but I was treated good all time.
I se'd sum cru'l Marsters dat hitched up dere slaves ter plows en made dem plow lak hosses en mules did.
W'en his daughter ma'ied Fount Odell, I wuz willed ter her en den mah marsters wuz Fount en Albert Odell who wuz br'ers.
And he'll take care of them low down Pattyroolers and slave speculators and mean Marsters and Mistress's.
Ef' dey disobeyed dey got a whuppin, en ef dey had a pass widout de Marsters signature dey got a whuppin.
Mah mammy useter tell me how de white folks would hire de slaves out ter mek money fer de marster en she tole me sum ob de marsters would hide dere slaves ter keep de Yankees fum gittin' dem.
Durin' slavery ef one marster had a big boy en 'nuther had a big gal da marsters made dem libe tergedder.
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