“One day, I went to the slave market and watched em barter off
po’ niggers lak tey 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’.” The ex-slaves in No
Man’s Yoke on My Shoulders speak of a Florida that no
longer exists and can barely be imagined today. Now the fourth most
populous state in the country, Florida has more than 100 times the
people it did in 1860, just before the Civil War. And it was only
40 years removed from Spanish rule. In the 1930s, the Federal
Writers’ Project dispatched interviewers to record the
recollections of former slaves, many in their 80s or 90s. Only one
percent of the 2,000-plus transcripts collected in the Library of
Congress told the stories of people who had experienced bondage in
Florida. That makes the narratives of former Florida slaves in this
volume doubly precious. Readers will get a glimpse into the lives
of these rare survivors as they told their stories at the height of
the Great Depression, a time many found little better than the
slave days. Horace Randall Williams describes himself as “among
the last of Alabamians—black or white—who have memories of
picking cotton by hand not for a few minutes to see how it felt but
because I needed the few dollars I would get for a day’s hard
labor under a hot sun.” He was the founder and for many years the
director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Klanwatch Project.
He also edited Weren’t No Good Times: Personal Accounts of
Slavery in Alabama.
General
| Imprint: |
John F. Blair Publisher
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2006 |
| Firstpublished: |
2006 |
| Editors: |
Horace Randall Williams
|
| Dimensions: |
190 x 127 x 8mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
103 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-89587-285-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-89587-285-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780895872852 |
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