Excerpt from The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years During the planting and harvest season, we had to work early and late. The men and women were called at three o'clock in the morning, and were worked on the planta tion till it was dark at night. After that they must-pre pare their food for supper and for the breakfast of the next day, and attend to other duties of their own dear homes. Parents would often have to work for their chil - i dren at home, after each day's protracted toil ...
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Excerpt from The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years During the planting and harvest season, we had to work early and late. The men and women were called at three o'clock in the morning, and were worked on the planta tion till it was dark at night. After that they must-pre pare their food for supper and for the breakfast of the next day, and attend to other duties of their own dear homes. Parents would often have to work for their chil - i dren at home, after each day's protracted toil, till the middle of the night, and then snatch a few hours' sleep, to get strength for the heavy burdens of the next day. In the month of November, and through the winter season, the men and women worked in the fields, clearing up new land, chopping and burning bushes, burning tar kilns, and digging ditches. They worked together, poorly clad, and suffering from the bitter cold and wet of those winter months. Women, wives and mothers, daughters and sisters, on that plantation, were compelled to toil on cold, stormy days in the open field, while the piercing wind and driving storm benumbed their limbs, and almost froze the tears that came forth out of their cold and des olate hearts. Little boys, and girls, too, worked and cried, toting brush to the fires, husking the corn, watching the stock, and running on errands for master and mistress, and their three sons, Enoch, Edward, and John, and con stantly receiving from them scoldings and beatings as their reward. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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