No Man's Yoke on My Shoulders : Personal Accounts of Slavery in Florida

Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi When the Big Gun Fired 3(7) Margrett Nickerson I Been Prayin' for This a Long Time 10(7) Claude Augusta Wilson Dry Head and Bloody Bones 17(2) Florida Clayton Kind Masters, Cruel Masters 19(3) Patience Campbell A Voluntary Slave 22(2) Samuel Smalls Cato Smith On Master Folsom's Plantation 24(6) Acie Thomas On the Colonel's Plantation 30(6) Douglas Dorsey A Breeder's Son 36(5) Douglas Parish Highlights 41(5) Amanda McCray Pap's Stories 46(7) Edward Lycurgas George Lycurgas Son of a Wagoner 53(6) Louis Napoleon Turnbull's Darkies 59(2) Christine Mitchell Master Lenton's Slave 61(2) Bolden Hall Herbalist 63(2) Charlotte Martin The African 65(6) Shack Thomas No Storm Lasts Forever 71(5) Squires Jackson Belonged to a Rich Merchant 76(9) Willis Williams Slave Customs and Anecdotes 85(9) Mary Biddie Haints 94(7) Josephine Anderson An Ex-Slave Who Went to Africa 101 Anna Scott