 | Alan Gallay - History - 1994 - 440 pages
...supper. By this time it is usually midnight. The same fear of punishment with which they approacl1 the gin-house, possesses them again on lying down...through them, rendering it comfortless and extremely disagreeable. The rude door hangs on great wooden hinges. In one end is constructed an awkward fire-place.... | |
 | Willie Lee Nichols Rose - History - 1999 - 558 pages
...bacon with the axe at the wood-pile. The corn meal is mixed with a little water, placed in the fire, and baked. When it is "done brown," the ashes are...through them, rendering it comfortless and extremely disagreeable. The rude door hangs on great wooden hinges. In one end is constructed an awkward fire-place.... | |
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With a prayer that he may be on his feet and wide awake at the first sound of the horn, he sinks to his slumbers nightly. The softest couches in the world are not to be found in the log mansion of the slave. The one whereon I reclined year after year,... 