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II. Long remembrance : Millie Evans: north Carolina ; Lee Guidon: South Carolina ; Tines Kendricks: Georgia ;Ben Simpson

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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 wouldn't come off
I come to tell them I couldn't 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 can't fly over trees
The sheep and the goats
The coon and the dog
You just can't 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 ain't so bad
What Frederick Douglass said
Steve Renfroe
Sam Bass --
5. Birds and beasts : I'm 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
They'd 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 didn't 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
Renfroe's tree
The hants of Baskin Lake
Alex comes home
But she was afraid
Ghost talk
Marse Glenn's 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 it's 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 don't 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. 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 can't : 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
Don't let the sun go down on you
I didn't 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 don't 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?
I'll whip you with chicken stew
He didn't allow nobody to hit them a lick
He gloried in their spunk
When I got back to master Haley
I'd rather see those marks on my own shoulders --
4. The slave's 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 man's chance
Gone to the woods
They lived in a cave seven years
Uncle Isom
Guinea Jim
Jane had big ideas
They didn't 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. We've 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 Mary's feather bed
Sherman's men, I and II
Aggravating the Yankees
Such a good time
The Yankees hung master twice
Why didn't 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
We're 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
Yes'm
Freedom of peaches
They threw their sticks away
They danced all night
There ain't no ants biting her today
It's 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
What's mine is mine
You all go on away
The devil and hell
She ain't 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 couldn't help crying
I feel like I am theirs
Freedom wasn't 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?
Freedmen's 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 ain't no good
Praying Jim Jesus
The doctor's "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 : It's this way
Anybody who says that is telling a lie
A better day
That's how I feel
You can't blame them for this
More his own say
Poor folk --
white and black
I hope to see a million years to come.