Beast - Locked Down

II. Long remembrance : Millie Evans: north Carolina ; Lee Guidon: South Carolina ; Tines Kendricks: Georgia ;Ben Simpson: Georgia and Texas ;Mariah Robinson: Georgia and Texas ; Nicey Kinney: Georgia ;Cato -- : Alabama ;Jenny Proctor: Alabama ; Allen V. Manning: Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas ; Joana Draper: Mississippi ; Katie Rowe: Arkansas ; Charley Williams: Louisiana ; Mary Reynolds: Louisiana ; Ellen Betts: Louisiana ; Mary Grayson: Indian Territory -- III. From can to cant : 1. Count the stars through the cracks : A pretty crop of children, I and II ; Old Mistress Pet ; Turkey buzzard laid me ; Old hog round the bench ; Dont let the sun go down on you ; I didnt know what sell meant ; Fanning the flies ; Riding old John backwards ; Barbecue and big meeting ; If all slaves had belonged to white folks like ours ; How to tell the Davis from the Bethea Negroes ; I was her favorite child ; I sometimes wish I could be back on the old place -- 2. Going high, going slow : two sellings that day ; Old man Denman said not to fret ; She never got to keep her babies ; Diana and her baby ; Eliza and the man from New York ; I dont believe in slave traffic ; Foundling ; Stolen and sold, I and II ; He sold him over and over ; Old pinchback ; Rose and Rufus -- 3. Praying to the right man : The lord ruled heaven, but Jim Smith ruled the earth ; He stomped on the body ; We laughed at his funeral ; I said I was glad she was dead ; If I were you and you were me ; The chain and the bell ; Why master had such a mean man working for him ; Ordeal by planting ; Filling a barrel with thimble ; Poor white-trash paterollers ; They think too high of themselves ; The last time I saw master ; How that suit you? ; Ill whip you with chicken stew ; He didnt allow nobody to hit them a lick ; He gloried in their spunk ; When I got back to master Haley ; Id rather see those marks on my own shoulders -- 4. The slaves chance : She rode off on a cow ; Little Joe made a song ; No overseer ever downed her ; She chopped this man to a bloody death ; She pulled up the stump ; No more overseers after that, I and II ; The red-bone hound ; A white mans chance ; Gone to the woods ; They lived in a cave seven years ; Uncle Isom ; Guinea Jim ; Jane had big ideas ; They didnt get Lucy or her quarter ; Why Aunt Adeline hung herself ; Buy yourself free ; He bought himself ; The bell and the light ; Bird in the air ; Saved -- IV. A war among the white folks :1. They made us sing Dixie :Back before breakfast, I and II ; You can get yourn here ; Leonard Allen ; The crack in the wall ; A wonderful consideration ; I wished I never run off ; We were confederates -- 2. Weve come to set you free : Blue veins on their bellies ; Yankees have horns ; Father did a bold thing ; When daddy locked master in the smokehouse ; Apples for the Yankees, stock for the master ; Mother and the Yankee soldier ; All right in their place ; Miss Marys feather bed ; Shermans men, I and II ; Aggravating the Yankees ; Such a good time ; The Yankees hung master twice ; Why didnt you bring the meat with you? ; She cooked for the Yankees ; Those white folks had to run away ; How father got his money ; Grandma and the Yankee soldiers ; I just said that to the wrong person ; Were fighting to free you, I, II, III, and IV ; Praise to the Yankees ; The prettiest sight I ever saw ; I love the Yankee.;V. All I know about freedom : 1. How freedom came : Like freedom was a place ; From bloody flag to white ; They got what they expected ; He cleaned his guns on my dress tail ; You better hush ; They learned better ; Yesm ; Freedom of peaches ; They threw their sticks away ; They danced all night ; There aint no ants biting her today ; Its not recorded ; They told the Yankees yes ; He made us work several months after that ; Drums of freedom ; Papa went off -- 2. The breaking-up and after : They knew what he meant ; Over half of them were gone ; When Christmas came ; Whats mine is mine ; You all go on away ; The devil and hell ; She aint got us back yet ; Old mistress kept the cotton ; All bent over ; Master lived a week or two ; He took the smallpox ; He cussed till he died ; Master gets worse ; The news killed her dead ; You got to look after me ; Death of a plantation, I and II ; He couldnt help crying ; I feel like I am theirs ; Freedom wasnt no difference ; Bang! ; Close measuring ; We have white folks eats ; He sold his five boys ; They just expected freedom ; Then came the calm ; I got along hard after I was freed ; Reconstruction was a mighty hard pull ; Who was freed by the war? ; Freedmens bureau ; I got my money, too ; After freedom ; That was my freedom ; Toby and Govie ; Running away ; Peonage, I and II ; Carrying on with free labor ; How we got away from old man bias ; He was poor and he hated negroes ; Devils and good people walked the road -- 3. The equalization war : Jordan had a hard time ; Ku Klux, I, II, and III ; Your old house aint no good ; Praying Jim Jesus ; The doctors grave ; Get rid of the grass ; Ku Klux and carpetbaggers ; End of the Ku Kluxes ; They kept the negroes from voting ; Vote as I damn please ; My daddy was in office -- 4. I take freedom : Its this way ; Anybody who says that is telling a lie ; A better day ; Thats how I feel ; You cant blame them for this ; More his own say ; Poor folk -- white and black ; I hope to see a million years to come.;I. Mother Wit : 1. Fooling master and catching John : Fooling master ; Catching John ; IT was a possum a while ago ; Pig-ooie, pig ; Malitis ; The boots that wouldnt come off ; I come to tell them I couldnt come ; Master pumpkin ; What the pass said ; Polly parrot ; The terrapin that could talk ; Turn the tray around ; I come from above, where all is love ; Laying down and getting up ; Cussing master ; Joke: putting hand under old mistress dress -- 2. Tall tales and tall talk : The promised land ; Big corn ; They were men in those days ; Set-down hogs ; Bad man yell -- 3. How come : Why the boll weevil came ; The brown bear and the pickaninny ; Nicodemus and the sycamore tree ; Why partridges cant fly over trees ;The sheep and the goats ; The coon and the dog ; You just cant get away from what the Lord said -- 4. Lincoln and others : Where Lincoln wrote his name ; When Lincoln came down to free us ; Maybe Mr. Lincoln aint so bad ; What Frederick Douglass said ; Steve Renfroe ; Sam Bass -- 5. Birds and beasts : Im being took ; Breaking the balk ; The partridge and the fox ; The tortoise and the rabbit ; Fatal imitation ; Barnyard talk ; What the fowl said ; What the birds said ; What the hounds said -- 6. Pastor and flock : What the preacher said ; God got a clean kitchen to put you in ; Two ways of preaching the gospel ; Every kind of fish is caught in a net ; Theyd pray ; Master Frank has come through ; Damn poor preacher ; Boots or no boots ; Methodist dogs and Baptist dogs -- 7. The power : A pocket full of conjure things ; Old Bab, the conjure man ; Hoodoo ; The conjure that didnt work ; Cured by prayer ; I know it was a sign ; He is a good god ; The power -- 8. Hants : Blow, Gabriel, blow ; Josh and the lord ; But it was a fast mule ; The phantom rider ; Josh, blow your horn ; Old Joe is over there getting simmons and chopping wood ; Renfroes tree ; The hants of Baskin Lake ; Alex comes home ; But she was afraid ; Ghost talk ; Marse Glenns money ; The shining shovel ; The petrified man -- 9. Anecdotes :The rooster test ; The stolen colt ; The peddler and the pony ; Hopping John ; The Lord had called him to preach ; The Lord tells me when its right ; If you do, they will kill me ; Bosom and no shirt ; Master sure made a mess of things that time ; No more hangings ; Losing the baby ; Just like it was her own ; Coldy ; The quilts that pinched ; Indians dont tell ; She prayed for freedom ; The son who married his mother ; But I can kill you ; A barrel of molasses ; Buzzard roost ; Jigging contest ; Snipe hunting ; Red flannel ; Train going to Africa ; Asking our age ; Telling them off.;A selection and integration of excerpts and complete naratives from the Slave narrative collection of the Federal writers project.