dan_curtis
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Edit: I'll just post it.
What exactly were slaves enduring, and what was different when the "liberators" arrived? Let's see.
Before the yanks:
Mary Rice, AL- Former slave
Mass Cullen and mistis May jane was de bes marster and mistis in de world! ... I was happy all de time in de slavery days... but dey ain't much to git happy over now..."
Sarah and Tom Douglas, AL- Former slaves
Slavery time wuz sho good times... We wuz fed an' clothed an' had nothin to worry bout...
Hannah Irwin, AL- Former slave
I suppose dem yankees wuz alright in dere place, but dey neber belond in de south ... An as for dem asettin' me free! Miss, us <font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font> on de bennet place was free zoon as we wuz bawn! I always been free!
Betty Curlett, Hazen, AR- Parents were slaves
When Mars Daniel come home he went to my papas house and says 'John, you free.' He says,' I been freeas I wanter be whah I is.' He went on to me grandpas house and says,'Toby, you free!' he raised up and said,'You brought me here from africa an north carolina and I goiner stay wid you as slong as ever I get sompin to eat! You gotter look after me!' Mars daniel say,'Well I ain't runnin nobody off my place as long as they behave.' Purty near every <font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font> set tight til he died of the old sets. Mars daniel sat to grandpa,'Toby, you ain't my <font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font>!" Grandpa raise up and say,"I is, too!"
Gus Brown, Richmond, VA- Black Confederate
The yankees didn't beat us! We wuz starved out! I am a confederate veteran!
James Gill, Marvell, AR- Black Confederate
... All dem good times ceasted atter a while when de war comes and de yankees started all dere debbilment (devilment). Us was Confederates all de while!
After the yanks:
JTK Hayward wrote a letter to JW Brooks, who forwarded the letter to US Secretary of War, Simon Cameron. Hayward explained how the Federal Troops were"...committing rapes on the negroes and such like things... These things are not exaggerated by me,... and no punishment, or none of any account has been meted out to them."
In Alabama things were no better. John B Turchin allowed his men to do as they saw fit in Athens (Athens Alabama, that is). The official records show that he allowed his men to..."Plunder and pillage the inhabitants... they attempted an indecent outrage on.. her [the mistress if the plantation] servant girl. A part of this brigade went to the plantation... and stayed in the negroe huts for weeks, debauching the females. Several soldiers commited rape on the person of a colored girl..." Colonel Turchins was court-martialed on July 7, 1862. One month after he was convicted he was promoted to Brigadier General.
It is popular to mention "black union soldiers". Have you ever wondered how so many of them became soldiers all at once? Many of them were conscipted forcibly. The negroes threw themselves on the ground in anguish, finding out that they were going to fight for the north. Many of them ran away into the woods where they were, occording to the official US report "Hunted up by the soldiers".
(Message edited by Dan_curtis on April 21, 2004)
What exactly were slaves enduring, and what was different when the "liberators" arrived? Let's see.
Before the yanks:
Mary Rice, AL- Former slave
Mass Cullen and mistis May jane was de bes marster and mistis in de world! ... I was happy all de time in de slavery days... but dey ain't much to git happy over now..."
Sarah and Tom Douglas, AL- Former slaves
Slavery time wuz sho good times... We wuz fed an' clothed an' had nothin to worry bout...
Hannah Irwin, AL- Former slave
I suppose dem yankees wuz alright in dere place, but dey neber belond in de south ... An as for dem asettin' me free! Miss, us <font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font> on de bennet place was free zoon as we wuz bawn! I always been free!
Betty Curlett, Hazen, AR- Parents were slaves
When Mars Daniel come home he went to my papas house and says 'John, you free.' He says,' I been freeas I wanter be whah I is.' He went on to me grandpas house and says,'Toby, you free!' he raised up and said,'You brought me here from africa an north carolina and I goiner stay wid you as slong as ever I get sompin to eat! You gotter look after me!' Mars daniel say,'Well I ain't runnin nobody off my place as long as they behave.' Purty near every <font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font> set tight til he died of the old sets. Mars daniel sat to grandpa,'Toby, you ain't my <font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font><font color="ff0000"></font>!" Grandpa raise up and say,"I is, too!"
Gus Brown, Richmond, VA- Black Confederate
The yankees didn't beat us! We wuz starved out! I am a confederate veteran!
James Gill, Marvell, AR- Black Confederate
... All dem good times ceasted atter a while when de war comes and de yankees started all dere debbilment (devilment). Us was Confederates all de while!
After the yanks:
JTK Hayward wrote a letter to JW Brooks, who forwarded the letter to US Secretary of War, Simon Cameron. Hayward explained how the Federal Troops were"...committing rapes on the negroes and such like things... These things are not exaggerated by me,... and no punishment, or none of any account has been meted out to them."
In Alabama things were no better. John B Turchin allowed his men to do as they saw fit in Athens (Athens Alabama, that is). The official records show that he allowed his men to..."Plunder and pillage the inhabitants... they attempted an indecent outrage on.. her [the mistress if the plantation] servant girl. A part of this brigade went to the plantation... and stayed in the negroe huts for weeks, debauching the females. Several soldiers commited rape on the person of a colored girl..." Colonel Turchins was court-martialed on July 7, 1862. One month after he was convicted he was promoted to Brigadier General.
It is popular to mention "black union soldiers". Have you ever wondered how so many of them became soldiers all at once? Many of them were conscipted forcibly. The negroes threw themselves on the ground in anguish, finding out that they were going to fight for the north. Many of them ran away into the woods where they were, occording to the official US report "Hunted up by the soldiers".
(Message edited by Dan_curtis on April 21, 2004)
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