"I 'specks dat I doan know who my pappy wuz, maybe de stock nigger on de plantation. My pappy an' mammy jist stepped ober de broom an' course I doan know when. Yo' knows dey ain't let no little runty nigger have no chilluns. Naw sir, dey ain't, dey operate on dem lak dey does de male hog so's dat dey can't have no little runty chilluns."
"Some of de marsters wuz good an' some of dem wuz bad. I wuz glad ter be free an' I lef' der minute I finds out dat I is free. I ain't got no kick a-comin' not none at all. Some of de white folkses wuz slaves, ter git ter de United States an' we niggers ain't no better, I reckons."
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| N.C. District: | No. 2 | |
| Worker: | T. Pat Matthews | |
| No. Words: | 22,289 | |
| Subject: | A SLAVE STORY | |
| (Princess Quango Hennadonah Perceriah). | ||
| Reference: | MARY ANNGADY | HW: 80 years |
| Editor: | George L. Andrews | |
| Date Stamp: | "OCT 25 1937" |