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Mighty rough times, I tell you : personal accounts of slavery in Tennessee / edited by Andrea Sutcliffe.

Sutcliffe, Andrea. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0895872269
  • ISBN: 9780895872265
  • Physical Description: xiii, 189 pages ; 19 cm.
  • Publisher: Winston-Salem, N.C. : John F. Blair, [2000]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Mighty Rough Times, I Tell You 3 -- They Had Whipping Day Every Thursday 7 -- My Mother Was the Smartest Black Woman in Eden 11 -- A Negro Has Got No Name 21 -- We Didn't Know Nothing Else But Slavery 28 -- I Got Many a Whipping 33 -- I Was Four Years Old When I Was Put on the Block 36 -- I Expect I Am the Oldest Man in Nashville 43 -- I Never Worries No Matter What Happens 48 -- My Father and Abe Lincoln Was First Cousins 52 -- They Were Saving Me for a Breeding Woman 59 -- I Have No Kin in This World 66 -- I Was Sharp As a Tack 68 -- There Wasn't No Learning Going On in Slavery 75 -- I Lived on Gallatin Pike 80 -- White Folks Raised Me 83 -- I Would Die Fighting Rather Than Be a Slave Again 87 -- I Remember the Yankee Soldiers Well 92 -- I Could Hear the Bullets Flying All Around 95 -- My Daddy Was Part Indian 99 -- All My Bosses Were Nigger Traders 103 -- Sometimes She Would Lock Us Up in a Dark Closet 109 -- You Couldn't Go Nowhere without a Pass 113 -- I Don't Never Want to See Another War 118 -- Folks These Days Don't Know What Trouble Looks Like 124 -- They Tried to Make Me Think I Wasn't Free 129 -- They Would Turn a Kettle Upside Down 139 -- They Charged Him for His Own Child 142 -- I Was Sold Away from My Husband 149 -- I Stole My Learning in the Woods 153 -- They Sold My Sister Right in This Nigger-Trading Yard 158 -- One Night a Ku Klux Klan Rode Up to Our Door 166 -- Stock Was Treated a Great Deal Better 171 -- I Want to Build Up 175 -- They Raised the Chillun to Make Money On 181 -- I've Been Here to Hear It Thunder 185.
Subject:
Enslaved persons > Tennessee > Biography.
Enslaved persons > Tennessee > Social conditions > 19th century.
African Americans > Tennessee > Interviews.
African Americans > Tennessee > Social conditions > 19th century.
Tennessee > Biography.
Tennessee > Race relations.
Genre:
Interviews.
Biographies.

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  • 5 of 6 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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