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.
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.
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
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.
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