It was jus' a little stand built out in the open with no top on it, that the slaves stood on to get sold while the white folks auctioned 'em off. De women folks don' talk much and no laughin' like 'fore. Navasota sits approximately 20 miles south of Bryan-College Station. We'uns all stayed till he died, 'bout a year after dat. This crime was in the middle of the day on the main street in town. My brudders is Newton and Silas and Willie and Frank. Police seized drugs, money and illegal gambling machines. I stays with dem till 1875 and den marries Navasota Robert Grice and us live by farmin' till he die, nine year since. Later the White Mans Union was formed, which sought political solutions when possible to the power struggles in Navasota. "Then when I was eight years old they sold me. They taken him and destroyed his stuff and him, 'cause he was making some money. Dey didn' hab no freezer den, jus' a big pan in some ice. It makes white men a little insulted when you dont know they is white, and it makes niggers all conceited up when you think maybe they is white.". "Did you ever stop to think that thinking don't do any good when you do it too late? When the nearby historic town of Washington-on-the-Brazos resisted railways, it forfeited its geographic advantage and began to decline after many of its businesses and residents began to migrate to the new railhead 7 miles (11km) to the northeast across the Brazos River at Navasota. I was too little to get on the stand, so they had to hold me up and Mr. Harper bought me for $1,100. It was jus' a common lil' hoss. She jus' walk 'round de yard and twist de hands and say, 'Dey sho' git kilt. "I 'members seein' Faith Baldwin and Jeb Johnson and Dan Hester gittin' whupped by de Klux. De boys and girls took tu'ns stirrin' de cream. I lubs my co'nbread. #3. As of 2018, the population of the town was an estimated 7,715 people. Us all stay and it sho' am tough times. The Gov'nor told the law to give 'em the old guns in the com'sary, what the Southern soldiers had used, so they issued the cullud men old muskets and said protect themselves. We all walk down de road singin' and shoutin' to beat de band. [21], The Navasota Independent School District includes five traditional campuses and one academic alternative school campus. I can't stan' much sun. All campuses received a Met Standard rating from the Texas Education Agency. They are unmarked as far as she knows. A tree am fix, and some present for everyone. When I's 'bout nine year ole she buy me a purty white dress and took me to jine de church. They wasn't slaves no more. Them shirts wouldn't rip no more'n buckskin. There am embers in de fireplace and she fills a pail with dem and when de Klux busts in de door she lets dem have de embers in de face, and den out de back door she goes. Everyone was a-singin'. She use' to let me bump on her pianny and didn' say nothin'. WebIn 1937 Reynolds shared her memories of slavery with a member of the Federal Writers Project for the WPA Slave Narrative Project. My daddy was a field hand and my mother worked in the fields, too, right 'longside my daddy, so she could keep him lined up. And 'bout in a year, Marster Zeke fotches me to my mamma, in Johnson Station, south of Arlington. It am de awful way to spend you last days. Explore State Historic Sites - Texas Historical Commission Exportation in the slave-owning areas of the state surpassed that of the non-slave-owning areas. The house was built by Alabama native Robert Augustus Horlock in 1892.
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