How the Children Were Fed

"My grandmother on my mother's side said when I was a little fellow that

she was a cook and that she would bring stuff up to the cabin where the

little niggers were locked up and feed them through the crack. She would

hide it underneath her apron. She wasn't supposed to do it. All the

little niggers were kept in one house when the old folks were working in

the field. There were six or seven of us.

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