Ex-Slave George Johnson | "Confederate President Jefferson Davis was my master."

okay well mr johnson we're going to start off [Music] i want you to tell me how you got your name i got my name from president jeff davis a prisoner of southern comparison he owned my grandfather and my father he brought down from christmas virginia grandfather blacksmith my father was a young kid wasn't gone and my father had learned how to write a little bit and written virginia before he brought him down here grandpa used to keep choking his shop to mark the other things and my father took a piece of put in the pocket and passed in front of boston's house he's right on the sidewalk and for one more monster come by and saw his lightning on the wall he grew the gas to cook me alive yes master so one morning she's out for some beach work and she cleaned out this pan and just looked around and saw her father down with me right on sidewalk she told him master your son for the boy come to the shop come to the house and uh asked him who am i right your mother's jeff i don't know how to write wristbands right down here he did yes he gave him princesses and martial scientists union got two teachers he opened a night school he educated all these [ __ ] he made my father sibling here and they made kannada in the government's bookkeeper going on they made different ones farmers comes sawmills gins all like that that's the victim of my father in canada montgomery county was born daisy man he's born on the hurricane plantation just giant piece of bread you our born brought for you boss jeff head fire planting nowhere cena bridefield hurricane palomar and lake place it's all blown to marshall and uh had all those [ __ ] from different places all the planets to come back to school night school you gave him all a farm education when they all got free they could hear himself he had so much business he couldn't have what he got business he just kid you needed to attend his business and he wanted to attend the master's business was going to land in the boogie in the heck the gate was locked the same old man i tell you about what manchester united he got to the get some monster just gets locked he's over a jacket like his mic bring it down his margaret saw the boyfriend up and jack getting break down to get your fence down and go on through there and the wagon behind me understand with the bands cams and land and when they come back they put the fence up that's a written box japanese [ __ ] and when they met and they go on the road first thing martial was looking back and see him exactly his head turned and everyone gave him the same thing back get him on and when he come home from new orleans up to the bend steamboat landed he's unloading freight and loading cotton and uh he paid their sleep the captain said miss dave's up you know you know i really wanna wake up mr wake up and you come downstairs you pick up cheering all pack it up out on the land and set the downside and you get up and buy a boat third time before you get in this hack you never lie to him just like that he just opened it while they all will be monster the right people would always go to the bank and go fishing and hunting all the banks when martial would be in the basically they thought i was going to like it they always obey him white and black his best man would escort him home he's coming back when he got ready and uh you don't want to pass that one there on lick please he told this courtyard said scorpion i'm going home tomorrow they don't get to feed my [ __ ] and they get too laying by these then i'm being with them cut cut wood but don't disturb them i want them understood see anything happening in the mind you really see mrs davis don't forget i must david say my [ __ ] is my summer shade he's my willow fire he's my brother don't you think so if they buy a cup over there with sweets that's cool i want to live across with the color bears i've been doing all good they're going to cut those vines the [ __ ] [ __ ] who must you have educated one whole actually laid by a crop with the double sweeps and he come back he'll cook and the next day he fires the white man he wants to please live like he wants he lived by the crop like he wasn't standing here clean whilst you've come with those little big switch and go in the middle clean it out you understand which uh couldn't read it could he kept those lines jump through the vine let's get him all of them he cleaned this place out rick he had a hundred things over there got all those news from different plans on san had pen francisco you know he's a real star all he's taking out on hurricane the castle there all mountain shelby outside roadside you know oh that's totally bouncy monster all that stuff news cows horses everything else hogs here now you had those sheets sheared certain time a year and built that rule and shifted somewhere see me do cut it capture the gin and peck it had three four streams in your sanctuary these teams you know and hurricane went on broadfield went over senior three gems i know he had three features and what's next he wanted to solve it on hurricane middle quarter all right that was one of master and when you want to think don't just put on paper and it's gone you're done getting trouble talking i always need to hear the common education you tell me how uh this how the story is to how isaiah t montgomery's father saved the plantation during the civil war form yes well when when uh the yankees was coming south they looked after little places down there robbed somebody and then see no miss you can't do no good i can't i won't see you i don't see my jeff i want sammy's reason between cmos jeff so again being the passport come on wristbands you got some bread in the site when i was visiting you guys just ben said monster though younger is coming south near [ __ ] break they're coming down south getting out high folks land and robbing the [ __ ] steal all the muse and then pursue davidson land and i want you to do say what is it ben i want you to land to me so i'll have it he said they like a little girl said don't you want me to lands mine you mind we got that with no seminals on page understand the people were unpaid and signed back home and in the end got down to the bill in our home there the anglers can't be understand they asked jesus lands this is farm today's another land who lands here he's going to demonstrate hey come here ben this your land yes where'd you get that both my old master he called my call missus casper bringing his pips on stand the freedom time come back master come on home you understand and give them cutting back your money put it on cutting business oh my goodness table like mike's healed biscuit now hell don't buy you please don't bother me right as much as hope cutting back the greenback

Channel: John Brooks

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Id: qN-p98lYOnQ

Length: 9min 44sec (584 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 28 2020