No Man's Yoke on My Shoulders : Personal Accounts of Slavery in Florida

by Williams, Horace Randall

• ISBN13: 9780895872852
• ISBN10: 0895872854
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: John F Blair Pub

Summary

"One day, I went to the slave market and watched em barter off po' niggers lak they was hogs," said George Lycurgas, as recalled by his son, Edward. "Whole families sold together, and some was split-mother gone to one marster and father and children gone to others. They'd bring a slave out on the platform and open his mouth, pound his chest, make him harden his muscles so the buyer could see what he was gittin'."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
When the Big Gun Fired	3	(7)
Margrett Nickerson
I Been Prayin' for This a Long Time	10	(7)
Claude Augusta Wilson
Dry Head and Bloody Bones	17	(2)
Florida Clayton
Kind Masters, Cruel Masters	19	(3)
Patience Campbell
A Voluntary Slave	22	(2)
Samuel Smalls
Cato Smith
On Master Folsom's Plantation	24	(6)
Acie Thomas
On the Colonel's Plantation	30	(6)
Douglas Dorsey
A Breeder's Son	36	(5)
Douglas Parish
Highlights	41	(5)
Amanda McCray
Pap's Stories	46	(7)
Edward Lycurgas
George Lycurgas
Son of a Wagoner	53	(6)
Louis Napoleon
Turnbull's Darkies	59	(2)
Christine Mitchell
Master Lenton's Slave	61	(2)
Bolden Hall
Herbalist	63	(2)
Charlotte Martin
The African	65	(6)
Shack Thomas
No Storm Lasts Forever	71	(5)
Squires Jackson
Belonged to a Rich Merchant	76	(9)
Willis Williams
Slave Customs and Anecdotes	85	(9)
Mary Biddie
Haints	94	(7)
Josephine Anderson
An Ex-Slave Who Went to Africa	101
Anna Scott