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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My second trip. (search)
er ‘lows us anyding for oursel's at all from Christmas to Christmas. What! Don't he give you a present at Christmas? NoChristmas? No, mass'r, not a cent. Some bosses do ‘low someding at Christmas; but not my boss. He doesn't even gib us ‘bacca to chaw. Christmas; but not my boss. He doesn't even gib us ‘bacca to chaw. He was carrying a bag in which his day's provisions and his tools were. He took out four apples, and offered them to me. rural slaves — plantation hands never have money — is at Christmas, when some owners give their hands ten or fifteen dollarson of the earth they seldom see a woman from Christmas to Christmas. If they are married men, they are tantalized by the thoey are hard worked from sun to sun, and from Christmas to Christmas, but they are well fed and clothed, and comfortably lodge coarse, was deserved.) These negroes return regularly at Christmas to see their wives and little ones--if not sold--and to b wives on these old plantations; while, from Christmas to Christmas, many of the slaves in the pineries and on the railr