[Page 52]: Mockbateman ("My pappy was Ike Bateman, 'cause his massa's name am Mock Bateman, and mammy's name was Francis. They come from Tennessee and I had four brothers and six sisters. We jes' left de last part)
[Page 67]: home-make ("Marster have de plank house and all de things in it was home-made. De cook was a old cullud woman and I eat at de kitchen table and)
[Page 85]: bit ("Every year they have big Christmas dinner and ham and turkey and allus feed us good. Us have Christmas party and sing songs. That)
[Page 90]: LaSan (slave born. My papa was Olivier Blanchard and he white man carpenter on old plantation. We belong to Clairville La San and all live on that place. My papa just plain carpenter but could draw patterns for)
[Page 114]: chilen (School. Dem was good times. De mistus cook dinner and send it down for de old folks and chillen to have plenty.)
[Page 147]: bit ("Old massa's name was William Lyons. I didn't have no old missus, 'cause he was a bachelor. He had a big plantation. I don't know how big but dey somethin' like twenty fam'lies of slaves and some dem fam'lies)
[Page 164]: nyself ("I seed some bad sight in slavery, but ain' never been 'bused myself. I seed chillun too lil' to walk from dey mammies sol' right off de block)
[Page 195]: tim (Ross drives de cattle north and I says to him, 'I's good hand at de drive. Kin I go with you nex' time you goes north?' And not long after dat we starts and we gits to Kansas City. After Marster Ross gets shut of)
[Page 211]: women (I saw Massa Oll and he done married after I left and raised a family of chillen. I saw Missie Adeline and she was a old woman. We went out and looked at the tombstones and the rock markers in the graveyard on the old place, and some of)
[Page 212]: woned ("My master was Dick Townes and my folks come with him from Alabama. He owneda big plantation fifteen miles from Austin and worked lots of slaves. We had the best master in the whole county, and everybody called)