Julia Crenshaw
From:
North Carolina
N. C. District: No. 2 [320169]
Worker: Mary A. Hicks
No. Words: 130
Subject: EX-SLAVE STORY
Story Teller: Julia Crenshaw
Editor: Daisy Bailey Waitt
[TR: HW circled "I"]
[TR: No Date Stamp]
EX-SLAVE STORY
As Julia Crenshaw recalled her mother's story.
My mammy wuz named Jane an' my pappy wuz named Richard. Dey belonged
ter Lawyer R. J. Lewis in Raleigh, dar whar Peace Institute am ter day.
Mammy said dat de white folkses wuz good ter dem an' gib 'em good food
an' clothes. She wuz de cook, an' fer thirty years atter de war she
cooked at Peace.
Before de Yankees come Mr. Lewis said, dat he dreamed dat de yard wuz
full uv dem an' he wuz deef. When dey comed he played deef so dat he
won't have ter talk ter 'em. Him he am dat proud.
Mammy said dat she ain't cared 'bout been' free case she had a good
home, but atter all slavery wusn't de thing fer America.
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