Good Morning POU! James Martin - on the slave auctions The slaves are put in stalls like the pens they use for cattle- a man and his wife with a child on each arm. And there's a curtain, sometimes just a sheet over the front of the stall, so the bidders can't see the "stock" too soon. The overseer's standin' just outside with a big blacksnake whip and pepperbox … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: Bullwhip Days, Voices Of Our People
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Friday Open Thread: Bullwhip Days, Voices Of Our People
TGIF! Lord knows its been a trying week! Auction & Negro Sales, Atlanta, 1864 Walter Rimm, Texas "My pappy wasn't 'fraid of nothin'. He am light cullud from de white blood, and he runs away sev'ral times. Dere am big woods all round and we sees lots of run-awayers. One old fellow name John been a run-awayer for four years and de patterrollers* tries all dey … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: Bullwhip Days, Voices Of Our People
Wednesday Open Thread: Bullwhip Days, Voices Of Our People
Good Morning POU! I suggest you pray before you read today's entry for sure! This narrative is from one individual, a fascinating account of her life that took me through every emotion! Mary Reynolds claimed to be more than a hundred years old. She was born in slavery to the Kilpatrick family, in Black River, Louisiana. "My paw's name was Tom Vaughn and he was … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: Bullwhip Days, Voices Of Our People
Tuesday Open Thread: Bullwhip Days, Voices Of Our People
Good Morning POU! OK, meditate first, now today's narratives from our brave ancestors, on life as a slave in the United States. On "Plantation Life" Jennie Webb De fus' thing I recollect is living in a slave cabin back o' Marse's big house, along wid forty or fifty other slaves. All my childhood life, I can never remember seeing my pa or ma gwine to wuk or coming … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Bullwhip Days, Voices Of Our People
Monday Open Thread: Bullwhip Days, Voices of Our People
Good Morning POU. Yes, you may need to pray or mediate first. This week's topic will be a somber one. During the 1930s, a massive project to compile the stories of former slaves began by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. It was the simultaneous effort of state-level branches of the FWP in seventeen states, working largely separately … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Bullwhip Days, Voices of Our People