No man's yoke on my shoulders : personal accounts of slavery in Florida
Title:
No man's yoke on my shoulders : personal accounts of slavery in Florida
Publication Information:
Winston-Salem, N.C. : John F. Blair, c2006.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 102 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Series:
Real voices, real history series
Contents:
When the big gun fired : Margrett Nickerson, Leon County -- I been prayin' for this a long time : Claude Augusta Wilson, Columbia County -- Dry head and bloody bones : Florida Clayton, Tallahassee -- Kind masters, cruel masters : Patience Campbell, Jackson County -- A voluntary slave : Samuel Smalls, Cato Smith, Suwannee County -- On Master Folsom's plantation : Acie Thomas, Jefferson County -- On the colonel's plantation : Douglas Dorsey, Suwannee County -- A breeder's son : Douglas Parish, Monticello -- Highlights : Amanda McCray, Madison -- Pap's stories : Edward Lycurgas, George Lycurgas, St. Johns County -- Son of a wagoner : Louis Napoleon, Tallahassee -- Turnbull's darkies : Christine Mitchell, St. Augustine -- Master Lenton's slave : Bolden Hall, Jefferson County -- Herbalist : Charlotte Martin, Sixteen (near Madison) -- The African : Shack Thomas, near Tallahassee -- No storm lasts forever : Squires Jackson, Jacksonville -- Belonged to a rich merchant : Willis Williams, Tallahassee -- Slave customs and anecdotes : Mary Biddie, Columbia County -- Haints : Josephine Anderson, Tampa -- An ex-slave who went to Africa : Anna Scott, Jacksonville.
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