| Description |
xxviii, 191 pages ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
Real voices, real history series |
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Real voices, real history series.
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| Contents |
I Ain't Never Been a Slave / Nicey Pugh (Prichard) -- 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). |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Alabama -- Interviews.
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African Americans -- Alabama -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Enslaved persons -- Alabama -- Biography.
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Enslaved persons -- North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Alabama -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Williams, Randall, 1951-
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| ISBN |
0895872846 |
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