| N.C. District: | No. 2 |
| Worker: | Mary A. Hicks |
| No Words: | 435 |
| Subject: | ANN PARKER |
| Person Interviewed: | Ann Parker |
| Editor: | Daisy Bailey Waitt |
ANN PARKER
Ex-Slave Story
An interview with Ann Parker in the Wake County Home, Raleigh, North Carolina.
"I reckon dat I is a hundert an' three or a hundert an' four years old. I wuz a 'oman grown at de end o' de war.
"I ain't had no daddy case queens doan marry an' my mammy, Junny, wuz a queen in Africa. Dey kidnaps her an' steals her 'way from her throne an' fetches her hyar ter Wake County in slavery.
"We 'longed ter Mr. Abner Parker who lived near Raleigh an' he had maybe a hundert slaves an' a whole heap of lan'. I ain't neber laked him much, case we had ter wuck hard an' we ain't got much ter eat. He ain't 'lowed us no fun, but we did have some, spite o' him.
"We uster git by de patterollers an' go ter de neighborin' plantations whar we'd sing an' talk an' maybe dance. I know onct do' dat we wuz in a barn on Mr. Liles' place when de patterollers comed, all dat could git out scated, but de ones dat got ketched got a whuppin'.