04/14/2023
The Untold Story
By RomonaLenore
This morning early, I decided to have a bowl of cereal. Photos of people open communication between me and that person. So a photo on the box, a dark complexed woman began to tell me her life as a slave; way back in American Slave times.
Apparently lobster was a main food as a very plentiful food source and easily caught. But he slaves were being too smart for the Land Owners and Slave Owners. So the plantation house had lobster for a while and the slaves were eating beef instead. The owners seemed to gain in wisdom, probably the iodine in the lobster. But the slaves were dying, the beef is too hard to digest for a person who works on labor and sweats and dehydrates. Eat takes a lot of water, and she was telling me of the water wells. Men were to shower before the women, as they were the main field workers.
In each enclosed pavilion were in groups of 18 or so, at least one woman to clean the camp area. Men went out and picked cotton, if properly distributed to her one woman cleaned and one woman took care of the food. The food woman was in whelp, she would have been careful on handling the food. Now cotton has a harvest time of a few months so she said, during this time men were to engage women for the children. Some slave owners had females and there would be an exchange of persons to accomplish the task of having children. Each woman was to engage four men in one month to assure a child. And each man could only engage four women, so once a month with each female and they would be moved.
The cereal started the conversation as I was told when the rice was husked the bran from the outer shell was used for a morning meal. Also rolled oats used for horses was also given to the slaves, when soaked they are a nutrition source. I used to eat the horses rolled oats as well as I trained and took care of horses when young and I would get into the grain bag.