I Would Talk a Lot for a Dime / Rufus Dirt (Birmingham). Old Joe Can Keep His Two Bits / Anthony Abercrombie (Perry County) -- Mules Be Eatin', and Niggers Be Eatin' / Angie Garrett (Gainesville) -- They Planted the Silver in the Field / Georgia Mitchell (Eufaula) -- Escapes Whipping / Pulling Frock Coattail, Frank Gill (Mobile) -- Today's Folks Don't Know Nothin' / Mary Ella Grandberry (Sheffield) -- Sho I Believes in Spirits / Charles Hayes (Mayeville) -- I Runned Most of the Way / Lizzie Hill (Eufaula) -- A Conjure What Didn't Work / Jake Green (Coatopa) -- The Yankees Was a Harricane / Cornelia Robinson (Opelika) -- We Et Like Li'l Pigs / Annie Stanton (Mobile) -- Cornshuckin' Was the Greates' Thing / George Strickland (Opelika) -- This Was That Long Ago / William Henry "Bill" Towns (Tuscumbia) -- Hongry for Punkin Pie / Adeline Hodges (Mobile) -- I Had Many Masters / Caroline Holland (Montgomery) -- The Patriarch Abraham Saw the Stars Fall / Abraham Jones (Village Springs) -- How to Make Em "Teethe Easy" / Emma Jones (Opelika) -- Cures and "Cunjer" / Dellie Lewis (Washington County) -- Chasing Guinea Jim, the Runaway Slave / Josh Horn (Livingston) -- Massa Had a Way of Looking at You / Isam Morgan (Mobile) -- Peter Had No Keys Ceptin' His'n / George Young (Livingston) -- These Uppity Niggers / Mary Rice (Eufaula) -- What I Keer About Bein' Free? / Nannie Bradfield (Uniontown) -- I Loved to Pick That Box / George Dillard (Eutaw) -- I Would Talk a Lot for a Dime / Rufus Dirt (Birmingham).
Summary:
A collection of personal narratives in which African-American men, women, and children recount the years they spent working as slaves in Alabama.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.