Clayton Holbert
I selected Clayton Holbert for my slave narrative. Holbert was born and raised in Linn County, Tennessee. His master was Pleasant “Ples” Holbert. Holbert says Ples had a large plantation with around one hundred slaves. Holbert was eighty six years old at the time of the interview by Leta Gray.
Holbert mainly talks about everyday life. He says that the plantation was self sufficient. The slaves on the farm butchered their own meat, wove their own clothes, and made their own maple sugar. He states that the maple sugar was so much better back then and way healthier. For their meat Holbert says that they would kill 20 hogs. They would smoke the meat using hickory wood which was considered the best for smoking meat. He says the meat they had was the finest possible, “It had a lot more flavor than that which you get now.” He talks about living on the plantation and I picture almost a classic suburb neighborhood. He says, “if a person ran out of meat, he would go over to his neighbor’s house, and borrow or buy meat, we didn’t think …show more content…
It makes history more interesting then the cut and dry history most people know. You can read first person accounts and really put yourself in their shoes to get a deeper understanding of the time period. This transcript taught me very little about the Great Depression. It does not mention the Great Depression but shows what happened before this time period. You can see why some southern farmers would be put in debt. Borrowing money to pay workers they normally wouldn’t have to pay.
I do believe this is a legitimate source to study history from. It is a primary source which is one of if not the most valuable source there is in studying history. I cannot see any factors that would make a nonlegetimate source. I believe using slave narratives for studying history is a great idea. Being able so see how people lived their lives in a certain time period is
I selected Clayton Holbert for my slave narrative. Holbert was born and raised in Linn County, Tennessee. His master was Pleasant “Ples” Holbert. Holbert says Ples had a large plantation with around one hundred slaves. Holbert was eighty six years old at the time of the interview by Leta Gray.
Holbert mainly talks about everyday life. He says that the plantation was self sufficient. The slaves on the farm butchered their own meat, wove their own clothes, and made their own maple sugar. He states that the maple sugar was so much better back then and way healthier. For their meat Holbert says that they would kill 20 hogs. They would smoke the meat using hickory wood which was considered the best for smoking meat. He says the meat they had was the finest possible, “It had a lot more flavor than that which you get now.” He talks about living on the plantation and I picture almost a classic suburb neighborhood. He says, “if a person ran out of meat, he would go over to his neighbor’s house, and borrow or buy meat, we didn’t think …show more content…
It makes history more interesting then the cut and dry history most people know. You can read first person accounts and really put yourself in their shoes to get a deeper understanding of the time period. This transcript taught me very little about the Great Depression. It does not mention the Great Depression but shows what happened before this time period. You can see why some southern farmers would be put in debt. Borrowing money to pay workers they normally wouldn’t have to pay.
I do believe this is a legitimate source to study history from. It is a primary source which is one of if not the most valuable source there is in studying history. I cannot see any factors that would make a nonlegetimate source. I believe using slave narratives for studying history is a great idea. Being able so see how people lived their lives in a certain time period is