![]() ![]() As they sat there, waiting for the fish to bite, Grandfather would "do a heap The fields, helped his grandfather with the chores and often accompanied him to the nearby creek to catch "a mess o' catfish" for supper. ![]() Charlie Holcombe, considered too young and frail to work in But he performed other chores, slopping the hogs and feeding the chickens. Grandfather Holcombe did not work in the field he had "de miseries" in his back and walked with a stick. ![]() The growing season, as the soil was poor and the labor that much more demanding. It was important to be in the field at sunup during His father, a tenant tobacco farmer, roseĮach morning at four o'clock, laid the logs for a fire, and roused the children, while Charlie's mother prepared a breakfast consisting of a pot of grits and a slab of salt pork. THE PINE-BOARD SHACK in which Charlie Holcombe spent his childhood in the late nineteenth century rested on top of a red clay hill about a quarter of a mile from the main road in Sampson County, North Carolina. From a song popularized by Louis Armstrong ![]() That was the way of life that I was born and raised into. Had to do whatever the white man directed em to do, couldn't voice their heart's desire. Had to act inĪ way just as though everything was all right. They felt like motherless children-they wasn't satisfied but thy had to live under the impression that they were. My grandmother and other people that I knowed grew up in slavery time, they wasn't satisfied with their freedom. ![]()
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