"She didn't live with her first husband after slavery. She left him when she was freed. She never did intend to marry him. She was forced to that."
Interviewer's Comment
Nelson evidently rents rooms. A yellow sallow-faced, cadaverous, and dissatisfied looking "gentleman" went into the house eyeing me suspiciously as he passed. In a moment he was out again interrupting the old man with pointless remarks. In—out again—standing over me—peering on my paper in the offensive way that ill-bred people have. He straightened up with a disgusted look on his face. He couldn't read shorthand.
"What's that you're writin'?"
"Shorthand."
"What's that about?"
"History."
"History uv whut?"
"Slavery."
"He don't know nothin' about slavery."