"Nobody Whups Me Now": Emancipation and Slave Identity in Mississippi

Authors

Daniel Hoer, Brigham Young University

Keywords

Slave Identity, Civil War, emancipation, Mississippi

Abstract

Long before the CIvil War drew to a close, slaves had been looking steadfastly towards the day they would be set free. Like Abe McKlennan, who anticipated the arrival of his freedom many years before it came, Dora Franks similarly recalled one day when she overheard her master telling his wife, Emmaline, "dat dey was gwinter have a bloody war and he was afeared dat all de slaves would be took away." Dora heard Emmaline declare that if this were true "she feel lak jumpin' in de well," and although Dora hated to hear her mistress say such things, she reported, "from dat minute I started prayin' for freedom and all de rest of de women did de same thing."

Recommended Citation

Hoer, Daniel (2010) ""Nobody Whups Me Now": Emancipation and Slave Identity in Mississippi," The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing: Vol. 39: Iss. 1, Article 7.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thetean/vol39/iss1/7