Colorization of the William Howard Taft Photo

                           This is William Howard Taft, this photograph is what I will be editing.
                                                           I will be adding color to him.

                                                 This photograph I will use as a reference.

Gabby reflection on Technology

Celia Black

   For this project, I have learned about Celia Black. Celia Black was an African American slave in Tyler, Texas. This interview took place in October 11, 1974. During this, she was interviewed by Elmer Sparks. Even tho Elmer Sparks interviewed Celia, Celia's daughter was also there with her mother.

   One of the facts that I have learned about Celia is that when she was younger she rode big old oxen with her family. The ox she preferred to ride was called Corley and the other one her family owned was called Let. Celia said that her grandfather was known to go everywhere with his oxen. Letting all the children ride the both of them.
   Another fact, is that she was born behind a rich white women. 

Kevin Figueroa reflection

Uncle Billy Mcrea              

 Uncle billy  McCrea is an ex-slave.I learn 3 interesting things about him. The first interesting fact about him is. That he worked on a steam boat as a slave. He is from Jasper TX.

               The second interesting fact about Uncle Billy Mcrea is that he is from Jasper Tx and,He use to be a  chief and,He would cook for about 6 years on his boat.

               The final thing that i found interesting about Uncle Billy is that he 36 children.He had about eighteen  boys but their were 2 twins he only raised sixteen here in Jasper Tx.


           

Meagan Waidley's reflection on Technology

     

                          Interview with Uncle Billy McCrea

 Billy McCrea is an eighty nine year old from Jasper Tx. He was a slave who  remember the songs he used to sing when moving salt from the boat the the warehouse where he had worked everyday. He also cooked on boats that ran from Jasper to Beaumont for six years.According to Billy each trip was at least fifty miles long. He also remembers whenever  he was a freedman and when he saw his old masters home who was Old Col. M. People brought in dogs after he was freedman when he was near the jailhouse .

How technology will have an effect on future generations

I think that to my great grand children will find the current technology outdated kind of how I my Grandparent's technology is outdated. if i were alive I'd probably find new technology very confusing to learn because I'm used to the technology now and I wouldn't like to move to the future changes .I would be very confused possibly how current Grandparents see now technology

Noah Escareno, Reflection on Technology

     In the 1940 interview with Joe McDonald, he thinks back to his time as a slave worker in Livingston, Alabama, and tells his optimistic stories.

     Joe was raised in the main house and was educated very well and taught manors. His owners wanted him to grow up and make something of himself. They wanted him to be respected by the white men, and have good friends like they have.

     At the age of nineteen, Joe went to plow in the field for the first time. He would plow with Mrs. D's horse named John, also known as old John.

Caleb Morgan- Reflections on Technology

     Today I listened to the interview with Billy McCrea, and learned some interesting things, but before we get into that, I'll tell you a few things about him. At the time of the interview he lived in Jasper, Texas, and was eighty-nine years old. He used to work on a steamboat where he would tote salt, but does not remember where.
     The first important thing I learned was Billy used to cook on the steamboats. He said it was his job for six years. The boats used to run from Beaumont to a place he called Gulfport in Jasper. Second, he said he had thirty-six kids. Eighteen were boys and two of them lived in Beaumont. Lastly, he used to pick cotton for his master, Old Col. M. He said they were free when the Yankees went home.
     I think that technology has a very huge impact on the way your history is told to your kids and grandkids. Back then the recordings were very new technology, but now you can easily just record yourself and put it on a hard drive. I think one of the easiest ways for my great grandchildren to see me as a teenager is to create a YouTube channel and have them look it up. By the time I have great grandchildren it will be so easy for them to access something with my life as a kid on it.

Grayson Johnson, Reflection of technology

Celia Black

     While I'm listening to the voice recording, I just noticed that she treated all people equal. If you were either black or white, she treated you nice because she knew she had God on her side. She states that she was thrilled to help anyone in need because she knew she was care about from others too. And she was known by the president as a good independent women.
     She states she was born in front of a rich white woman and that same woman brought her own mother to the South, in Texas. Soon her father was brought to the state to help as a yard boy. Her ma was a house girl that worked with Mrs. C. Celia questions how they got together but they stayed on the plantation until they died.
     Celia was born to pick cotton in the fields. She picked cotton for Mrs. C for years and years to come. Soon she found her husband and they would go to the South to pick cotton together.
     One way that technology will impact on my grandchildren is the lack of work that they will do when technology enhances even more. With the constant evolution of technology, this will make the new generation of humans lazier and only rely on technology to do most of their everyday work. 

Carli Landry - Reflections on Technology

Sally Ashton

     Since Sally Ashton was born, she has lived her life in Virginia. She grew up there, and was put into slavery as a tobacco farmer for the rest of her life. 

     In the voice recording she mentioned that from when she was born up until she was at least thirteen or fourteen, she didn't own any shoes. When she finally got shoes they weren't decent. She said that her shoes she has now are nothing like the shoes she had back when she was a child. They are way better.  

     She said that she had eight horses to thrash wheat. They took a very long time to trash all the way through the wheat. It took three weeks for them to get through the crops. She said it was too much.

     She said that they didn't that they didn't own a stove. All they had was a great old brick oven. Which didn't work very well. But she didn't spend much time in the house. She usually stayed out back behind the shed where the crops were.

     Archibald A. Hill asked who she worked for. She said that she worked for Hancock. And that he had a hundred servants or more.

     I think that our children will think our technology is old and outdated. They will most likely be almost any type of technology you can think of when they are born. They will probably get a phone or a tablet way earlier than any of us did. 

Kennedy's Reflection on Technology

                                                                   Isom Moseley
         Ever since Isom Moseley was a young boy, he grew up without a mother. His master and mistress raised him.
         Slaves weren't very important to slave owners, so Isom knew his master and mistress only by initials. His master was named L.M., his mistress was named B.M.
         Sadly, even though the government only gave him five dollars a month, he thought they were treating him fine. He said he doesn't have to buy clothes, and he uses the money to buy flour. Sometimes the government bought him flour, sugar, coffee, and tobacco.
         With all the technology we have today, I think in the future, when my grandchildren are my age, everyone won't be aware of their surroundings because they'll all be caught up in their phones. There will be more advanced technology, not just phones and computers. No one will watch television anymore, but a new form of television might occur. In 2007, the first IPhone was created, and now there's tablets, computers, and even watches. I think technology will be way more advanced in the next 40 years.

Carlos Aragon Billy McCrea interview

Billy McCrea

  In the interview with Uncle Billy McCrea I have learned a few things. Over all Billy's interview was very humorous. One interesting thing is what he did as a slave.
  Billy worked on a ship as a slave for six years. He mainly cooked and cleaned on the steam boat. He would carry salt from the boat to a warehouse while singing Blow Cornie Blow. 
  Billy had thirty-six children eighteen boys and twenty girls.

Cody Schaller reflection

Uncle Bob Ledbetter 

     Uncle Bob only voted twice in his life. The first time he voted was for whiskey. The second time he voted, he voted for the president.

     When he was a child, he worked as a slave. Everyday when he was on the plantation, he would sing songs to pass the time. He would sing to his "lady" across the river. If his "lady" heard him she would sing back.
     At the age of nineteen he joined the church of his own free will. His wife did not force him which was specified in the recording. His father before him was a "regular old church man" as he put it.
       Looking at old technology, I wonder how new and present technology will affect our children or our children's children? I personally believe, that in the future our children or grandchildren, will have an easier acces to see into our lives than we have to see into our grandparents or parents past lives today. They will be able to look up our names and find our old accounts or old photos and videos of us
     They will know more about us and understand our lives and problems with a clarity we do not have today. Doing research for school projects will be easier with the technology we have today. I think we will have a closer bond with our children and grandchildren.

Ashley technology review thingy

     Uncle Billy was a former slave who enjoys singing and remember most songs from his slave days. In the recording he sang a variety of different songs. It's one thing to read the conversation but with the recording you can hear the meaning behind their voice and it's better and better to understand because you can hear the emotion behind their voice if they're sad or happy and you can tell many things about it from hearing their voice rather than reading it and it's just better that way to hear it. I found out he likes to sing and he used to cook on boats. He also would tote salt where he would get salt for his old master and take it from a boat to a warehouse. They had to tote it up the bank and to the warehouse.
     Starting off with songs, he sang a total of three songs and had hummed a couple tunes and thought to sing of another song but didn't continue due to thinking it was the wrong lyrics. In the first recording (1out of 2) he sang the songs Blow Cornie Blow, Ju Rawsy Row, Row, Don't Come To My House, and Walk Dooley. In the second recording (2 out of 2) he sang no songs but talked about when slavery was over.
     Going onto what else I learned, Uncle Billy McCrea had more than just a few children. Most people have one, two, three, four, five, maybe even six children. But other than TV shows, I have never known or read anyone to have thirty-six children. That's right,Uncle Billy had thirty-six children! and eighteen of them were boys. Holy cow!
     Listening to the recording, it affected me to see all the things they had to put up with. Just thinking, how could this affect others. How will technology affect future generations?
     Current technology will only increase to be more technical and most things will most likely be more device-like when my grandchildren come along, but if this day's current technology will affect them, how will that be, you ask? Probably they would be rude, first of all, I'm not even old enough and am still a child myself and can tell already we're in trouble. My grandchildren will be nice though, better than me hopefully. I will teach them better and although I will understand what it's like to be a child and want to have technology and the latest devices, I will hopefully teach them to be less greedy and think better than that, because they will know better.

Tre'Von Richmond Reflection

                                                        Mrs. Laura Smalley

Mrs. Laura Smalley was a slave during the civil wars.Laura went to an interview. The interview would ask her questions about how it was during thew slave days. The interviewer would later begin asking questions.

How long did they nurse a baby? The interviewer asked. Until it was big enough to walk. Mrs. Laura Smalley said. You never worked in care of it like that? No Mrs.Laura Smalley said.You remember when the Civil War was being fought? She said she can't remember much about it,but she did know that Mr. Bethany was gone a long long time 

She said they would cook their food outside. The interviewer asked about who would cook the food on the plantations. She replied back with saying Miss Clemens would do the main cooking. She would cook in the house and bring it to them. She said they would later start making them pick corn and they wouldn't let them get any breaks they just would tell them to get back to work.

Laura Smalley also mentioned that they didn't have churches. Although they did have church but it was in the trees. She started talking about the music in their days. Then Laura began to sing a song called Thunderbolts Rattling.Laura later began singing another song called "Go Down Moses".

She would then go on and on about how they would beat some her slave friends and she would be forced to watch them. Laura also mentioned that she had been living in Hempstead,Texas for a little over twenty-two years. She also said that people of her kind are more selfish these days back then they would stay together and work together these day they always fighting.

Samuel Byerly - Laura Smalley

Samuel Byerly


                                                           Slave narrator
             

   

                 Laura Smalley was a maid and took care of the children. She was old and handicap.When the children was bad she would have to punish the child.                                                                 There was some boys were throwing rocks and the lady got hit in the head with a rock.The women had a kitchen but' it wasn't in the house, it outside. She had to sleep with one of the baby because he was scared.                                                                 If the baby was sick they had to take care of the baby in the night. Non of her people were soled into slavery. She knew a few people that went to civil war.

               They had other people to help with the kids. She have's a grand daughter that took care of kids. They stayed at this place from 10 and older.   

                In the next generation have a benefit from technology. There will be pictures and videos of my child hood. in there child hood there will most likely have technology in there child hood, so there grandchildren can see them when they were young.                                   

                                           

Kya W.

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           Facts On Fountain Hughes

    Fountain thought that the life he was living as a slave,was how things were supposed to be.He thought that because that was what he was unfortunately born into.

   During the time he was a slave boys wore dresses.Fountain Hughes had to do this because pants were either too high in cost or he just didn't want to buy any,but either way Fountain didnt mine.They also wore wool diapers.

   He was a slave in Charlottesville,Virginia.Virginia is in the South.The South is was most of all slavery was,sadly.In the south crops grew,which is where slaves came into the picture.

           How Technology of today will     Impact My Grandchildren

    My guess at how current technology will have an impact on my great grandchildren is that technology will impact them because they will actually have pictures and videos of me..instead of never knowing who I was at all.

Calli Weaver Reflection

Wallace Quarterman was born into slavery in 1844. He lived in slavery most of his early life. Its been almost two hundred years and he shares his life story as a slave. It was about three o'clock and the overseer shot his gun and signaled it was time to eat. His friend told him to run through the field and get someone named peter, and tell him the Yankees were coming and that it was time to turn the people loose.
but the overseer caught on to their plan and stoped it before they could actully act it out.

Danielle Griffith Reflection

             Bob Ledbetter was a slave in oil City, Louisiana. He used to sing like an angel but now he said he broke his voice. He used to sing to a young fella in the field, they to would sing as a response across the field. He would sing to him every day after supper. He would run out of the house and start to sing then Bob would join in.
            Bob Ledbetter has never been the so-called jailhouse but he said, "I have never been to that jailhouse before, I have drove past but never been, I've been to the courthouse twice." He never saw his friends in the prison because he always thought practice makes perfect. "If you're in jail your there for a reason" he preached. he wasn't scared to not see them he just never felt like it.
          Bob Ledbetter has never been to school a day in his life. He could read and write, he wrote letters. He so sad that he pretty handwriting so people could read and he would send them letters if he just knew where to send them. His daddy taught hi how to write so well. He also taught him how to spell but not very much. He only taught him little by little at night. He kept copies of the words so he could practice by himself. He also taught him how to read little by little at night. His daddy wasn't no educated man but he knew the common stuff.
          Ledbetter joined church when he was nineteen years of age. He got married in his early twenty's. His wife was never in church, he took a notion and joined himself. He soon learned in his daily masses that principles to yourself are a big deal. He also learned that what was right and to always do what is right.
         Ledbetter has voted twice in his whole entire lifespan. He voted for Whiskey. He also voted for a presidential election once. Most slaves didn't have the right to vote at that point in history. they were known as three-fourths of a person and sold to other people.

Veronica Reyes - Reflection on Technology

    Uncle Billy McCrea, is a slave from Jasper, Texas, who remembers his life as a slave and tells about it in a 1940 interview.
       He had 36 children (18 boys in Jasper ). The strongest slaves were used to impregnate women to make them, and their children stronger, because more slaves were needed to do the work needed. It was basically their way of modification of slaves over time. He also mentions how he has twin boys. He still talks and communicates with his children. Some children is slave times never knew their father much.
      He also revealed that they used to sing songs when they were working, on their way to work, or on the steamboats. Their songs referred to their work conditions or women or things going on in their lives at the time. Many of the songs from slavery time can be found today. Most slaves remembered the songs and their connection with the work they did. Uncle Billy remembered at least three songs.
       He also tells about the Yankees who came in. Yankees were from the North, and they were abolitionists. He tells about how he remembers them going home. It has been said that some slaves believe their owners never did them wrong. Back then, it was a crazy idea to not own another person, but now we realize how wrong that is. Slaves didn't even know that it was wrong for their owners to own them, they never thought of being free.
       I think with the rate in which our technology today is advancing, the future generations will have to maybe even rely on more technology. Their time will be advanced, but it will all come from our generation of advanced technology.
      Today, our youth was raised with technology, and not fascinated by it. This stuff is the norm. But in future generations to come, they probably even need it to live, because new inventions come up, and more ideas, and that means more technology to express and create those ideas. They will live in a more technology based world.

Samuel Lopez Reflection

       Uncle Billy was a funny man from Jasper, Texas. He loves to sing, and still remembers most of the songs he learned back in the slave days. 
       He also tells his story from what he remembers when he was slave. He tells of the mules that would carry the cannons. 
       He remembers that even after slavery ended they would treat him incorrectly. He tells of a time when he was younger and him and some other black friends were hanging out around a prison and the police sent jounds after then thinking that they were escaped inmates.
        

Alex Medina Reflection

       Harriet Smith had a hard life. She had to live in the same slave house with her mother and grandma. During her time as a slave, she managed to pick 500 lbs of cotton. Colored folks had meetings in different houses. Even though she had it rough, she went to Church. The White folks had Church in the morning while the Blacks had Church in the evening. She says her owners treated them well and that they never whooped them. It was good that they didn't whip her but she and other slaves weren't taught to read and write. I would show a picture of her but unfortunately there isn't one.
        Aunt Harriet was 13 when she started being a slave.


         

Aarron Carpenter Reflection on Technology

Lauren Smalley was a slave and a crippled old woman who never got whipped by her owners and worked in a rough plantation.She said they treated the children like hogs. They would eat soup and mush with wooden spoons and wooden trays. Lauren had a brother names who helped her with the children but he couldn't pick them up because he was too little.

I think my great grandchildren will wanna know what was technology like back in my day and in their parents day.

Allan Cantu Reflection of Technology

                                                                        Mrs. Laura Smalley
 
    Mrs. Laura Smalley was a crippled woman who didn't have to take care of the children because of her condition and that she was also very old. If one of the children were acting bad they not only beat the child they would also beat the old woman taking care of the children. If the old woman wasn't taking care of the children they would whup her for not doing her job.
     When they ate they would have to use a wooden spoon and a tray. The food that they would eat would be some type of mush or soup. The tray that they would eat from would be made like a hog trough. For the children if they would reach their spoons to the other side of the tray they would be scalded.
     Mrs. Laura Smalley had a mistress called Mrs. Adeline who would be caught by the wrist and pushed to a rocking chair.
   

Daniel word Reflection

                                                                      Gaston Alice


                         Alice Gaston was a slave during the civil war. she said  ''in the summer her dad had cheated on his wife, and his girlfriend had got pregnant.'' Her dad died a few years later, and it was hard for her.

She was sold at a young age, then sold again because her master had died. She said that all her masters treated her kind. She also said that everyone was being used as soldiers when it happened.She could hear slaves told to come outside.

She was scared at this time. Still young, she dreams about it and has trouble sleeping because, the war. She said said  that she seen a troop get killed. It was scary for her. Soon everything ended and she was confused and happy.



I feel like my great great grandchildren would love the tec. It is currently improving each day. It would be different and better.

Jaeda Bryant Reflection

                                                   Uncle Billy Was a slave that  worked on a steamboat. They used to sing a song called " Blow Cornie Blow. " They sang the song while they toted salt From the boat to the warehouse. Even though they were toted the salt they didn't know where it came from.

They had many songs they sang while they worked. There names where Blow Cornie Blow, Ju rawsy Raw,and Walk Dooley. Some of them he couldn't remember fully the lyrics for them.

His job on the boat was he cooked while they were on the boat. He cooked on the boat for about six years. The salt that they toted was toted from Jasper  TX to Beaumont Tx. About Fifty miles.

I think technology will have a major effect on my grandchildren. Because today i could tell you almost everybody hold enough to operate technology is addicted to it.  

Trinity Wilson Reflections On Technology

                                         
Laura Smalley was saying how children were treated like hogs. They ate some mush or soup off of a tray. Laura said that they scald the trays but she did not see it and if one of them tried to eat the others food the child would get hit. Laura had a brother named Wright who nursed the children but could not pick them up cause he was to little.

I think technology will have a bigger effect on kids in the future because even today people are attached to their phones and i think it will be way worse in the future. Future technology will be more interesting then it is today, we will have things like flying care and holograms every where. So, i think our technology will have a bigger effect on people in the future.

Anthony Villanueva reflection on technology

Uncle Billy McCrea

Uncle Billy McCrea was a slave in the 1900's from Jasper, Texas. He would cook on a steamboat for about six years, the boat would travel from Jasper to Beaumont,Texas which according to him was about fifty miles each trip. He would enjoy singing songs like 'Blow Cornie Blow' while he was toting salt. His master at the time was old Col. M. who lived in the post office. He had thirty-six children, eighteen in which were boys, and sixteen of those boys were raised in Jasper with him. He would be eighty-nine in the October of that year. He explained how every day he would go out in town and watch the yankees go home, and they would have six to eight mules to a cannon, which were dressed in blue.Their punishment was to be hanged just by their thumbs, so this would require many men to help untie the slave that was hanged.                                                    

Great grandchildren and current technology

My great grandparents had a lot of trouble understanding our current technology and I had a lot of trouble with theirs. I had to ask them about all of their tools because I have never seen anything like it before. Most of the things were outdated and has advanced in my era of technology. This got me thinking how it would probably be the same with my great grandchildren.They would have advanced and new tech while I am still in my old era of technology. I think they would be so confused when they see our current technology because in their time period our current tech would be way outdated for them, and I would have to explain to them what everything from my era of technology is and how to use it, and they would do the same and explain all of their new, advanced, and superior technology to me.

Your name, reflection on technology (Travis Mistry)

 Laura Smalley: Mrs. Smalley was a slave that worked in a rough plantation. She was a crippled woman and was fortunate that her owners never "whipped" her. Her helper wasn't so lucky unfortunately, she got the whipping for both of them. She was made to watch kids while they ate so they can't run away or try to escape. Unfortunately I couldn't find a picture of her.

Technology is advancing at an amazing rate (as of right now). New computers, new softwares, new microchips and a lot of other amazing inventions. My grandchildren would probably make fun of the really bad quality of my pictures. the current technology would really help our grandchildren because technology is really easy to use and makes life easier