Slave Narratives A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves Volume VII Kentucky Narratives - Various
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Section one of Slave Narratives A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves Volume seven Kentucky Narratives This is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit libervox dot org Slave Narratives, a folk history of slavery in the United States from interviews with former slaves, volume seven, Kentucky Narratives by Varius. Interview with Dan Bogie. Uncle Dan tells me he was born may fifth, eighteen fifty eight at the Abe Wheeler Place near Spoonsville, now known as Nina, about nine miles due east from Lancaster.
How does Dan Bogie describe his birth, family and early life on the farm?
Mother, whose name was Lucinda Wheeler, belonged to the Wheeler family, and My father was a slave of Dan Bogie's at Kirksville, in Madison County, and I was named for him. My mother's people were born in Gerard County, as far as I know. I had one sister, born in eighteen sixty, who is now dead, and is buried not far from Lancaster. Mars Bogie owned about two hundred acres of land in the eastern section of the county, and as far as I can remember there were only four slaves on the place. We lived in a one room cabin with a loft above. And this cabin was an old fashioned one about hundred yards from the house. We lived in one room with one bed in the cabin. The one bed was an old fashioned, high post, corded bed where my father and mother slept.
My sister and me slept in a trundle bed, made like the big bed, except the posts were made smaller and was on rollers, so it could be rolled under the big bed. There was also a cradle made of a wooden box with rockers nailed on, and my mother told me that she rocked me in that cradle when I was a baby. She used to sit and sing in the evening. She carted the wool and spun yarn on the old spinning wheel. My grandfather was a slave of Talton Ambry, whose farm joined the Wheeler farm. He made shingles with a steel drawing knife that had a wooden handle. He made these shingles in Mr Ambry's yard. I do not remember my grandmother, and I didn't have to work in slave days, because my mother and father did all the work except the heavy farm work.
My mistress used to give me my winter clothes. My shoes were all called brogens. My old master had shoes made. He would put my foot on the floor and mark around it for the measure of my shoes. Most of the cooking was in an oven in the yard, over the bed of coals. Baked possum and ground hog in the oven, stewed rabbits, fried fish and fired bacon called streaked meat, all kinds of vegetables, boiled cabbage, poned cornbread, and sorghum molasses. Old folks would drink coffee, but chillin would drink milk, especially buttermilk. Old Master would call us about four o'clock, and everybody had to get up and go to Starin's. Old Mars had about thirty or forty sugar trees which were tapped in February. Elder spiles were stuck in the taps for the water to drop out in the wooden troughs under the spiles.
These troughs were hewed out of buckeye. This maple water was gathered up, put in a big kettle, hung on racks with a big fire under it. It was then taken to the house and finished upon the stove. The skimmings after it got to the syrup stage was boiled down and made into maple sugar for the children. We wore tow linen clothes in summer and jeans in winter. Sister wore Lindsay in winter of different colours, dyed from herbs. Especially poke berries. and wore unbleached cotton in summer, dyed with yellow mustard seed. My grandfather, Jim Embry, mended shoes and made fairly good ones. There were four slaves, my mother did cooking and the men did the work. Bob Wheeler and Arch Bogie were our masters. Both were good and kind to us.
I never saw a slave shipped, for my boss did not believe in that kind of punishment. My master had four boys, named Ruby, Fulton, Horace, and Billy. Ruby and me played together, and when we acted bad, old Mars always licked Ruby three or four times harder than he did me, because Ruby was older. Their daughter was named American Wheeler for her mother. White folks did not teach us to read and write.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What introductory information is given about the recording and its source?
0:00–0:47
2
How does Dan Bogie describe his birth, family and early life on the farm?
0:47–8:18
3
What details does Dan Bogie share about daily chores, food and clothing?
8:18–18:25
4
How does the narrative shift to the next interview (Will Oates) and new topics?
18:25–2:17:21
5
What children’s games and folk celebrations are described at the beginning of this segment?
2:17:21–3:13:01
6
How do the speakers describe superstitions, omens, and ghost stories?
3:13:01–4:16:26
7
What details are given about Nancy Austin’s last will and testament?
4:16:26–4:56:10
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How does the recording conclude and summarize the slave narratives?
4:56:10–5:01:22
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