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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 19 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 75237 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 96 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 County 15 Mr. 11 Yankees 10 slave 10 War 10 Miss 10 John 9 Street 8 Georgia 7 old 7 Mrs. 7 Marster 6 age 6 Mississippi 6 Marse 6 Klux 6 Bluff 6 Arkansas 5 come 5 Uncle 5 Rock 5 Robertson 5 Mary 5 Little 5 Irene 5 Carolina 5 Aunt 4 dey 4 Tennessee 4 Sunday 4 Pine 4 Niggers 3 wuz 3 Texas 3 South 3 Mammy 3 Henry 3 Davis 3 Civil 3 Athens 2 editor 2 date 2 dat 2 Williams 2 Waitt 2 Smith 2 Raleigh 2 Old 2 North 2 Negroes Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 5744 slave 5253 time 3975 year 3872 man 3500 mother 3393 folk 3391 day 2995 house 2565 child 2343 place 2272 master 2157 father 2149 ter 2031 plantation 1708 name 1689 war 1640 thing 1605 nigger 1561 night 1531 nothing 1494 way 1472 woman 1431 people 1389 boy 1384 work 1252 wid 1222 home 1204 family 1119 field 1098 money 1089 lot 1052 freedom 1024 wife 1021 slavery 1019 church 981 chillun 957 wus 920 life 907 girl 902 hand 866 member 865 cotton 847 marster 835 clothe 832 school 819 wuz 819 bed 800 horse 791 brother 751 age Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 8047 de 3969 dey 3663 dat 1872 Mr. 1639 Dey 1594 Miss 1313 County 1293 De 1255 Arkansas 1123 Yankees 1058 Marster 1014 Mrs. 941 Marse 887 dem 840 John 724 wuz 704 house 667 Georgia 650 Street 642 War 619 Mary 617 wid 597 Uncle 567 Age 563 Person 554 _ 541 Aunt 528 den 515 Sunday 501 George 498 Ku 496 dis 485 dar 483 Mississippi 475 TR 474 Klux 461 Dr. 460 Carolina 457 white 455 Old 451 fer 444 Henry 441 North 430 dere 415 Negro 405 Dat 398 Tom 390 South 389 ter 389 Master Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 33202 i 17234 he 14003 they 10283 it 10167 she 7421 we 7193 me 7027 you 5361 him 5042 us 4583 them 3222 her 2949 ''em 848 em 300 myself 230 sho 202 himself 167 themselves 145 herself 104 jus 83 one 74 hisself 46 mine 43 itself 40 yourself 32 ourselves 26 uv 25 ours 25 ''s 18 his 15 theirs 14 ob 12 hers 12 clo''es 11 yo 7 yours 7 wud 7 theirselves 7 mahself 6 gran''mammy 5 ya 4 yit 3 yourselves 3 thee 3 duh 3 ah 2 yuh 2 ye 2 wah 2 ner Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 50011 be 17142 have 14033 do 8066 go 6947 get 5853 come 5775 say 4694 know 4111 make 3607 tell 3473 see 3279 take 2991 live 2776 give 2427 work 2119 wuz 2102 use 1930 want 1918 die 1768 bear 1761 stay 1734 hear 1727 marry 1716 sell 1692 keep 1651 call 1626 put 1556 run 1439 think 1407 remember 1376 leave 1231 eat 1175 let 1149 look 1103 name 1029 buy 1026 git 980 raise 869 whip 867 bring 852 find 818 wear 801 hit 760 cook 757 belong 730 start 726 own 715 ask 708 kill 703 interview Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 13735 not 5727 old 4608 up 3729 good 3546 out 3465 so 3401 white 3348 never 2762 now 2637 then 2529 back 2282 big 2246 little 2183 long 2137 down 2095 here 2074 too 1833 there 1764 just 1701 right 1659 much 1654 young 1622 off 1579 other 1429 well 1379 more 1323 free 1307 about 1261 away 1158 on 1121 many 1095 first 1069 very 1066 ever 986 as 969 always 935 sometimes 911 in 911 hard 896 all 882 only 856 own 831 bad 816 dem 812 colored 788 same 775 enough 712 home 706 most 657 over Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 450 most 306 good 195 old 137 Most 76 big 67 young 66 onli 64 least 36 j 32 great 29 high 27 fine 26 bad 23 near 18 hard 17 mean 16 eld 12 rich 11 happy 10 large 10 early 7 fast 6 slight 6 nice 6 long 6 close 5 smart 4 sweet 4 strong 4 pretty 4 low 4 late 4 hot 4 cruel 3 white 3 hoed 3 easy 3 cheap 3 bright 3 awful 2 strange 2 southw 2 soft 2 small 2 sad 2 heavy 2 haid 2 grand 2 feath 2 fat Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 256 most 26 well 19 least 6 jest 4 hard 2 youngest 1 worst 1 oldest 1 jes 1 finest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 168 dey did n''t 82 folks did n''t 65 dey ai n''t 59 war was over 37 folks do n''t 29 slaves did n''t 28 dey do n''t 24 dey does now 22 folks ai n''t 21 dey is now 21 niggers did n''t 21 slaves were not 20 mother did n''t 18 dey said dat 16 dey had big 16 ter go ter 15 dat ai n''t 15 dey did not 15 dey was jus 15 folks was good 15 places lived in 15 war come on 14 dey had ter 14 name was john 14 slaves did not 13 master was good 12 dey said dey 12 name was miss 11 children did n''t 11 dey was free 11 dey wuz good 11 name was mary 11 ter be free 10 dat did n''t 10 father did n''t 10 master did n''t 10 master did not 10 times is hard 9 children were not 9 dey got sick 9 dey says dat 9 dey use ter 9 dey was big 9 slaves run away 9 slaves were never 8 dey come back 8 dey goes ter 8 dey was good 8 dey wuz so 8 master was john Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 children are not better 1 children had no extra 1 children were not so 1 dat is not very 1 dat was not so 1 dat wuz no diffunt 1 day want no colored 1 days were not as 1 de wuz no sich 1 dey had no funeral 1 dey had no niggahs 1 dey had no sifters 1 dey has no use 1 dey lived not far 1 dey wuz no other 1 father had no learnin 1 father was not only 1 folks are not as 1 folks had no church 1 folks had no horses 1 house was no longer 1 master did not personally 1 master had no ku 1 master had no public 1 master was not actually 1 master was not as 1 master was not very 1 men was no better 1 mother had no furniture 1 mother had no stove 1 mother said no prayer 1 mother were not exactly 1 name was not brown 1 name was not miller 1 nigger got no business 1 nigger have no chilluns 1 niggers do no work 1 niggers had no guns 1 niggers had no say 1 niggers had no soul 1 plantation do no wuk 1 plantation was no different 1 slave was no good 1 slaves are no more 1 slaves had no money 1 slaves had no uprisin 1 slaves had no votes 1 slaves were not enough 1 slaves were not legal 1 ter be no leader A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 11255 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 date = keywords = Arkansas; Bluff; Brown; County; Dr.; Irene; Klux; Little; Miss; Mississippi; Mr.; Pine; Robertson; Rock; Street; Tennessee; Texas; War; Yankees; age; old summary = I don''t know how long they stayed after the old man died. and tell us tales bout old times like you want to know. old folk were working the larger young uns mongst the children would "Folks like me what got children think the way they do is all right. "Papa run the gin on Mr. Sprangle''s place, then he went to war, come "I reckon I lived in Arkansas about thirty years before I left and come "Mama didn''t live only till I was about three years old, so I don''t know "What little I know, an old white woman taught me. for the white folks how I come to know so much bout it all. "According to my old father and mother, the Patteroles went and got the "I don''t remember what the old man said about freedom coming. My mother said that an old white man came through the quarters one id = 11422 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 date = keywords = Arkansas; Bluff; County; Georgia; Irene; Klux; Little; Miss; Mississippi; Mrs.; Rock; War; Williams; Yankees; age; come; old summary = "My mother, she was sold from her father when she was four years old. nothing but work in slave times and you got whipped about that. When I come home, I made a lot o'' money for old miss. home to see my old mother.'' ''Tell you what,'' says she, ''I ain''t got nuff knowed or heard of a war, I saw a lot of the funniest wagons coming up "My father died in slave times and my mother died the fourth year after "I remember one time the white folks had some stock tied out, and I know "I been in Pine Bluff bout four years--till I got disabled to work. time of the War. The old man got on his horse and flew. "When New Year day come the white man locked me up in a room in his "Mother and grandma didn''t have a hard time like my father said he come id = 11485 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VI, Kansas Narratives date = keywords = Hulsie; Kansas; slave summary = On the plantations the slaves usually had a house of their master was raised like this, he has written to me several times, since I "I was about twenty-two years old when I married, and I have raised six Told by Bill Simms, ex slave, age 97 years, Ottawa, Kansas. "I lived on the farm with my mother, and my master, whose name was "A man who owned ten slaves was considered wealthy, and if he got hard "The slaves usually lived in a two-room house made of native lumber. When a slave got too old to work they would give him a small cabin on I worked most of the time for three years off and on, hauling I returned home to my old master, who had stayed there with my mother. Missouri, if a slave wanted to marry a woman on another plantation he id = 11544 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 date = keywords = Arkansas; Bluff; Carolina; County; Georgia; Irene; John; Klux; Little; Miss; Mississippi; Mr.; Pine; Robertson; South; Street; Texas; War; Yankees; age; come summary = we colored folks ain''t got work we can do all the time to live on. "One time when an old white man come along who wanted to preach, the He liked coming to Arkansas because he got to ride on the train a long "After the war I used to work in the house for my white folks--for Dr. Bob Williams way up there in the country on the river. Mama and grandma said Master Coon and old Mistress Mollie was good to the war we stayed on with the white folks who owned my father and worked "I member one time when old master wasn''t at home the Yankees come and I come out here to Arkansas with my mothers old master and mistress and "Mother said she would run hide every time the Yankee men come. "I heard my mother say that in slavery times the man worked all day with id = 11552 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VIII, Maryland Narratives date = keywords = Baltimore; Charles; County; Maryland; Mr.; Virginia; Washington; Williams; slave summary = "The slaves lived in good quarters, each house was weather-boarded and "As a slave I worked on the farm with other small boys thinning corn, "The poor white people in Charles County were worse off than the slaves; Father and mother of a large family that was reared on a small farm "My father worked on a small farm with no other slaves, but our family. "We had 60 slaves on the plantation, each family housed in a cabin built "The farm was very large, the slaves worked from sunup to sundown, no "We went to the white church on Sunday, up in the slave gallery where slave days my father gave me money and good clothes to wear. between the slaves, the free people, the patrollers and other white "One time a slave ran away and was seen by a colored man, who was id = 11709 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 date = keywords = Arkansas; Bluff; County; Henry; Irene; Klux; Little; Mississippi; Mr.; Negro; Pine; Robertson; Rock; Smith; Street; Tennessee; Texas; War; Yankees; age; mother; old summary = fo'' him de white folks couldn''t hab lived in dis country, de negroes wuz "Our white folks took us to Texas durin'' of the War. I think my old "Mother got so she wasn''t able to work in the field several years before everything we know, good and bad, we got from the white folks. "Mama come and got me long time after that and I didn''t want to go nor little niggers were kept in one house when the old folks were working in master he worked all time in the shop making things jess like he needed, War, he went far and near to work for the white folks. "The way my mother and father happened to meet--my old master hired my got a daughter over in North Little Rock that is about fifty years old. father died in slavery times, but mother lived several years after. id = 11920 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VII, Kentucky Narratives date = keywords = Aunt; Civil; County; Hoo; John; Jones; Kentucky; Mammy; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Ole; Uncle; War; old; slave summary = little negro slave boy living on the farm and he had heard quite a bit two-year old negro child brought about $1,500 in the slave market, an A slave owner, in West Virginia, bought a thirteen year old black girl At this time the slave girl was about twenty-one years of age, and Dr. Davis took her home to Scott County, Virginia where he married her to experiences and observation of an old negro lady who was a slave, Mrs. Amelia Jones, living in North London, Kentucky. The old negro lady slaves would sit in the door way of their little when the old master got mad at his slaves for not working hard enough he they lived in the big house--otherwise in Slave quarters, little cabins old negro slave who, after the close of the Civil War lived near Mrs. Sloan''s mother. id = 12297 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume III, Florida Narratives date = keywords = Carolina; Civil; County; Davis; Field; Florida; George; Georgia; Guide; Jacksonville; John; Mary; Mr.; Negro; Negroes; Sherman; South; Street; Unit; WRITERS; War; Worker; federal; plantation; project; reference; slave summary = money called "shin plasters" which was used during the Civil War. The slaves were not allowed to attend schools of any kind; and school A few years before he left to enter the war the slave owner came into slavery days, but he lived on the same plantation for many years until slave, 108 years ago at Richmond, Virginia, on the plantation of a man ex-slave, born in Suwannee County, Florida in 1851, fourteen years prior As to plantation life, Dorsey said that the slaves lived in quarters Willis remembers the time when a slave on the plantation escaped and do this, he would let a slave work all day on his plantation, and live plantation, the master would delight in telling his slaves that if they Plantation Life: The slaves lived in cabins called quarters, which were id = 13579 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume V, Indiana Narratives date = keywords = Avenue; Buckner; Civil; County; Evansville; George; Indiana; Indianapolis; John; Kentucky; Mr.; Mrs.; Smith; Street; Uncle; War; slave summary = Mrs. Bowman said she never knew want in slave times, as she has known it One day the old mistress caught a slave boy with a book, she "When I was a little bitsy child and still lived with Mr. Gardner," said the old man, "I saw many of the slaves beaten to death. Mrs. Cave said that her master''s father had many young women slaves and "We lived in a cabin at the slave quarters and mother worked in the mother married a negro ex-slave of Ford George and bore children for slaves of "Old Master Stone", but his father was owned by another man, Mrs. Richardson said that the slaves, that worked in the Master''s house, Her mother, a slave hand, worked on the farm until her young master, The day the mistress and master came and told the slaves they were free id = 13602 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1 date = keywords = Alec; Athens; Aunt; Christmas; County; Davis; Georgia; John; Lord; Marse; Marster; Mary; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Nancy; Niggers; Sunday; Uncle; dey; slave; wuz summary = rainy spell come and de grass got to growin'' fast, dey wukked dem slaves and if folks lives right dey sho'' is gwine to have a good restin'' place evvy meal, and dey sho was pretty hangin'' dar in dat big old fireplace. "Old Marster was powerful good to his Niggers when dey got sick. "Marse Henry kept a lot of slaves to wuk his big old plantation whar he Nigger 12 or 14 years old dem days was big as a white child 17 or 18 house, an'' us didn''t know nothin'' ''bout no jail dat day an'' time. "And jus'' a few days ago a old man come to see me thinkin'' dat he wuz Marster''s plantation; dey rested up a day and dat wuz all. When slaves got too old to wuk, dey took keer of de chillun in a house Dey lived at home on dat big old plantation. id = 13700 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 date = keywords = Arkansas; Bluff; Carolina; County; Davis; Henry; John; Klux; Mary; Miss; Mississippi; Mr.; North; Robertson; Rock; Tom; War; Yankees; age; old summary = "Fore I left the old county, I member the boss man, Henry Grady, come by "The times is hard fo old folks cause they ain''t able to work and heap lived wid them white folks till bout nine years and I married. The old folks ain''t got no money an the young ones She said her old miss wouldn''t let her come day when Jessie come to de house to let dat baby suck, Mr. Harvey think "There was an old white man used to come out and teach papa how to read can remember my mama said her old master, Mat Fields, sent my father and six months old when I was born and mama said old master come in and tell "Right after freedom, my folks worked on old man Jim Burdyne''s farm. "Right after the War, my mother worked--washed--for an old white man. id = 18484 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 3 date = keywords = Athens; Aunt; County; Georgia; Henry; Joe; Marse; Marster; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Negroes; Niggers; Old; Street; Sunday; War; Yankees; date; dey; slave; wuz summary = wants to hear ''bout dem old days dat you loves so good to tell about." de larnin'' dat dem two good old folks gimme is done stayed right wid me "Marster was too old to wuk when dey sot us free, so for a long time us days, not even for de white folks, but dem old cord springs went a long "Slaves all et up at de big house in dat long old kitchen. slaves stayed right on wid de Marster; dat was all dey knowed to do. "Old Marster John McCree was sho'' a good white man, I jus'' tells you de "Long ''bout dat time dey wuz killin'' hawgs on de plantation, en it wuz tell uv it, but Mammy said dat when slaves did run away, dey wuz cotched and Old Mist''ess sho'' wuz powerful good when dey Niggers got sick. id = 18485 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 4 date = keywords = Augusta; Aunt; County; Dey; Georgia; House; John; Mammy; Marse; Marster; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Niggers; Old; Sunday; Uncle; Willis; Womble; Yankees; come; daddy; slave summary = "Marster was sho'' good ''bout seein'' dat his Niggers had plenty to eat "Slaves all went to church wid deir white folkses ''cause dere warn''t no wid our good old Marster to look atter us and see dat us had what us ''cause our white folkses day sho'' did take good keer of deir slaves. Mammy said dat most times when slaves got married dey jus'' jumped de preacher man''s house and got married, us come right on here to dis "Dem days it was de custom for marsters to hire out what slaves dey had died, and a long time atter dat us kept on wukin'' for Old Marster. Betsey, and dey moved up to de big house wid old Miss atter Marse Ike jay birds.'' ''Bout dat time a white man come along and told dem Niggers did know how many slaves Marster had, but dat old plantation was plumb id = 19446 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 date = keywords = Alabama; Arkansas; Bluff; Carolina; County; Georgia; Irene; Klux; Little; Mississippi; Mr.; Person; Pine; Robertson; Rock; South; Street; Tennessee; War; Yankees; age; come; old summary = My mother raised us a heap like old times. "Grandma said their something to eat got mighty slim in war times and "I stayed round the house with the white folks and didn''t know what "Yes sir, Boss Man, I kin tell you all er bout de old slabery times, en "All I know about freedom was Old Man Henry Bibb come out and told us we young mistress little girl bout seven or eight years old. coming in from the field old master called his slaves and told us we was neber knowed dat er Yankee wus er man jes lak my white folks till I seed would tell him, ''You''re my master.'' They said during the War the old man "White people were pretty good to the old colored folks right after the "Colored folks in slavery times didn''t know how old they was. id = 19932 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XV, Tennessee Narratives date = keywords = INTERVIEW; Marster; Missis; Nashville; Tennessee; dey; mah; slave; wuz summary = De chilluns called dem de ''blue mans.'' Mah white folks wuz named Missis en don'' steal fum dem." I stayed wid mah Missis fer a long time "One story mah daddy useter tell us wuz ''bout a slave named Pommpy. "W''en we all wuz freed we had nuthin en no place ter go, so dat mah kum wid de hoss several men ''peahrd en tole Fedd dat dey wuz gonna mah Missis sum body wuz at de do''er wantin'' ter know whar mah Marster Soon as de chillens, wuz seven y''ars ole, dey started dem ter "I wuz tole dat sum ob de white peeples wuz so mean ter dere slaves urthur boys en hit wuz a long thing lak a slip dat kum ter our knees. "Durin'' slavery times de slaves would hab ter git fum dere marster a a slave got whupped hit wuz cose dey disobey dere white folks en de id = 22166 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 2 date = keywords = Athens; Aunt; County; Georgia; John; Lord; Mammy; Marse; Marster; Mary; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Niggers; Robert; Sunday; Uncle; Yankees; come; dat; dey; old; slave summary = "De slaves went to church wid dey marsters. Long ''fore dat time, one of dem white chillun got married and ground; only dem Niggers was in dat field to wuk and dey sho'' did have ''till dey wuz 18 years old." Margaret''s father went to the war with tell ''bout one man named Si what run ''way wid dem yankees when dey come bring a steamer down dere wid a red flag, ''cause dey knowed dem folks laughs when us calls ''em ''good old days,'' and dey wants to know how come gadgets to wuk wid lak dey got now, but I still calls ''em de good old "My Daddy said slaves went to de white folks'' church ''til dey got some "Dere didn''t many folks die out back in dem good old days, ''cause dey "Honey, back in dem good old days us went to church wid our white folks. id = 22976 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1 date = keywords = Bailey; Carolina; County; Date; District; John; Lincoln; Marse; Marster; Mary; Mis; Miss; Mr.; North; Raleigh; Stamp; Street; Waitt; Yankees; dat; editor summary = dat way ''fore I wuz borned dey uster strip dem niggers start naked an'' I reckon I wuz twelve years old when my mammy come ter de house an'' Yes ''um, I reckon I wuz glad ter git free, case I knows den dat I won''t He says right low dat dey done took marster Jordan ter de Marster Charlie an'' Missus Mary wuz good ter de hundred slaves what tell ''bout marsters dat when dere slaves runned away dey''d set de You wuz axin'' ''bout de slave sales, an'' I want ter tell you dat I has "Way long time atter dat ole Marster Jim come ter visit his niggers, an'' wuz de way dey got married dem days; de pore white folks done de same We went wid de white folks to church; dey were good ter us, dat''s de I knows dat de Yankees wus good ter de niggers but dey warn''t so id = 31219 author = United States. Work Projects Administration title = Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 date = keywords = Bailey; County; Dey; District; John; Marse; Marster; Matthews; Mis; Mr.; North Carolina; Pat; Raleigh; Scales; Street; Waitt; Wake; Yankees; date; editor; interview; wus summary = De ole missus wus right nice ter ever''body dat day an'' of dem lived ter be named, dat wus Hyacinth, an'' he died ''fore he was a de McGee place got married de marster always said dat dere duty wus ter "Dere wus ''bout fifty slaves on de plantation, an'' dey wurked from "No slaves ever run away from our plantation cause marster wus good to "Yes, suh, de wus'' I knows ''bout slavery times is what dey tols me ain''t had much time, ter do us any damage case dey wus too busy atter "When freedom come mother and father stayed on wid marster cause dey every three slaves who wushed dey wus back wid dere marsters. "Dey said dat Mr. Nat''s oberseer wus kinder mean ter de slaves, an'' "When de Yankees come Marse wus off ter de war so dey tuck de place wid