By James de Jongh

"Old Folks Home for Coloreds."
"You're garden sure looks nice this mornin'."
"Wanna know 'bout slave days, do you?"

"No more auction block for me."
"I had two brothers sold away and I ain't seen 'em no mo' til dis day."
"During slavery it seemed like yo' chillun b'long to ev'body but you."

"If de massa couldn' rule you dey would sell you."
"I ain't tellin' you all I seed wid dese eyes."
"Mammy used to bake ash-cakes."

"Water in dis here time don't have the taste like it did when you ain't had nuthing but dem goards."
"Honey dat stuff is good!"
"Why er hit makes you lick your tongue out more than once."

"See? Chip de end right off."
"Kin 'member how I got 'ligion."
"Ride on King Savior, no man can hinder me!"

"I don' want nobody stumblin' ovah me."
"Dere was two kin's of runaways: dem what hid in de woods and dem what run to free lan'."
"Your son was as willing to go as I was."

"Wanta know 'bout slave days do you? Well, I'll tell you what slave days was like."
"Do lord, oh do lord, oh do remember me!"
"Cast and Crew."