Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Horrible Histories Has Fallen" video.
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@settame1 I started reading, starting with Kentucky, where I was born, and found that their treatment was no worse than that of the small sharecropper or farmer. Most all had very good things to say about their masters, and some wished for those days back.
They received a pair of new shoes at Christmas, the same as my white father and others did when young, were given cloth and clothes for summer and winter, had their own gardens, fished, hunted, and tended livestock. Most lived in two to four-room houses, with a loft, about like the smaller white farms had.
There were only brief mentions of runaways here and there, and traders, and most witnessed no whipping. They stated that their masters didn't believe in it, and that they were religious, like their masters.
These PDFs contain several ex-slaves interviews from each state, and they are a very interesting read. It's not what many claimed happened, that I can tell you.
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