Friday, May 3, 2019

Ex-slave Anne Maddox, about 100, Remembers eating milk & ash cake out of a trough in 19C America



Ann remembered, "Bout four o'clock in de evenin' all de little niggers was called in de big yard where de cook had put milk in a long an den trough an' crumbled ash-cake in it. Us had pot licker in a trough, too. Us et de bread an' milk wid shells an' would use our minds, out it was good."