"Course I sez, 'Go long, nigger, iffen I doan love yo' den dar ain't no water in Tar Riber.' Den I sez, 'We can git Marse Henry outen de bed an' he'll marry us ternight.'
"Rob wus tickled pink an' sho nuff we wus married right away dat very night.
"We lived pore, dat I knows, but we wus too happy in ourselves ter worry 'bout sich things an' de lack.
"I laughs now ter think how ignorant we niggers wus. We'd do our washin' an' 'bout de time we hung hit on de line, we'd see a string of folks comin' home frum de Prospect Church an' we'd know dat we'd done our washin' on a Sunday."
AC
| N.C. District: | No. 2 |
| Worker: | Mary Hicks |
| No. Words: | 615 |
| Subject: | A SLAVE STORY, THE WOMAN OVERSEER |
| Person Interviewed: | Valley Perry |
| Editor: | George L. Andrews |
[TR: Date stamp: AUG 17 1937]
[HW: Story of kind mistress who stops cruelty on plantation.
Use whole story.]