Mighty Rough Times, I Tell You: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Tennessee

<i>He come up and said, “Speak to your young mistress.”
And I said, “Where she at?”
He said, “Right there,” and pointed to the baby in my mistress’ arms.</i>
—Lu Mayberry

<i>My oldest sister . . . was fooling with the clock and broke it, and my old marster taken her and tied a rope around her neck—just enough to keep it from choking her—and tied her up in the backyard and whipped her I don’t know how long. There stood Mother, there stood Father, and there stood …