CANE RIVER CREOLE - National Park Service

Yes’m, the whites would take July 4th, but we had our day. Mr. Hertzog gave us a beef and bread and a keg of beer. There were house parties and people would come to eat and drink and play baseball. All the kids played in a field near the overseer’s house, on the north side of the quarters. The mulattos didn’t want to celebrate with us ... ................
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