Stepney Underwood; from the Library of Congress Collection
Remembering Slavery: 
Those Who Survived Tell Their Stories
 
And one more thing I want you to promise me:  
that you's gonna tell all the children my story.
--Papa Dallas Stewart
Their Voices: 
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Joe 
McDonald
Interview Place: Livingston, AL
                                       Interview Date: 1940
                           Interviewers: John A. Lomax and Ruby T. Lomax
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    I washed and ironed. Some days I'd wash a hundred pieces. Some, every morning I'd have five beds to make up, five fires to make, and the childrens to dress and churning to do. And after that, well then I'd have some parts of the day. But I had all that to do every day. 
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Faulk, John Henry (interviewer)   |  Epilogue  
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