Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States eBook

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Start of eBook	1
WASHINGTON 1941	1
ARKANSAS NARRATIVES	1
PART 7	1
INFORMANTS	1
FOLKLORE SUBJECTS	1
Interviewer’s Comment	7
Text of Interview	8
Story by Aunt Clara Walker	11
Mother and Father	25
Dwelling	25
Food	26
Social Affairs—Corn Shuckings, Quiltings and Dances	26
Dances	26
Quiltings	26
Worship	27
Weddings	27
Fight with Master	27
Slave Uprisings	27
Confederate Army Negroes	28
Occupations	28
Personal History of Informant	31
Text of Interview (Unedited)	31
Extra Comment	33
Edmondson, Arkansas	41
Slave Houses	42
Food and Cooking	42
Work and Runaways; Day’s Work	42
Buying and Selling	43
Patrollers	43
How Freedom Came	43
Jeff Davis	43
Ku Klux Klan	43
Right after the War	43
Blood Poisoning	43
Father’s Death	43
Little Rock	44
Opinions	44
Interviewer’s Comment	44
Personal History of informant	57
Text of Interview (Unedited)	57
Extra Comment	60
	60
Part I	60
Part II.	61
Part III	61
Interviewer’s Comment	62
FOLK CUSTOMS	72
HAINTS and BODY MARKS	72
Interviewer’s Comment	76
Interviewer’s Comment	89
Interviewer’s Comment	97
Birth and Parents	101
War Memories	101
How Freedom Came	101
Schooling	101
Occupational Experiences	102
Ku Klux	102
Voting	102
Family	102
Opinions	102
Interviewer’s Comment	102
Father, Mother and Family	113
House	113
How the Children were Fed	113
How Freedom Came	113
Patrollers	113
What the Slaves Got	113
Marriage	113
Slave Droves	113
War Memories	114
Breeding	114
Worship	114
Indians	114
Buried Treasure	114
Ku Klux	114
Just After the War	114
Voting	114
Occupation	114
Support	114
Marriage	114

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