The overseer on the Myers plantation was not a mean man, they had a calaboose or sweat box to punish unruly slaves in place of whipping them.
After the Surrender her father and mother moved to Mobile, Alabama, and her father continued to work for Mr. Jewett at his mill located at the foot of Palmetto Street on the Mobile river front.
[Maugan Shepherd]
Interview with Maugan Shepherd
—Gertha Couric, [HW: Eufaula]
SLAVERY COMING BACK? MAUGAN HOPES SO
"Mistus, I hears slavery times is comin' back."
Uncle Maugan Shepherd is past 80. He idled about the front of his tumble-down house in Eufaula, happily recalling the old plantation days. He has never learned to read, and therefore pins a great deal of dependence upon hearsay.
"Where did you hear about slavery coming back?" the interviewer asked him.
"Well, mam, 'pear lak I heard it somewhar. I don't rikolect jest now."
"Would you like to have the old times back again, Uncle Maugan?"