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The Chronicles of Aunt Minervy Ann JOEL*CHANDLERHARRI S. 6. & E. L. ELBERT Ctltnmt itf llWlrslro I ^mmtlcxi hit ELLA SMITH ELBERT _»88 jlit iltcuumam JU_ COMAH THE CHRONICLES OF AUNT MINERVY ANN Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/chroniclesofauntOOharr_0 I ain't fergot dat ar 'possum." THE CHRONICLES OF AUNT MINERVY ANN BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS ILLUSTRATED BY A. B. FROST CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK 1899 Copyright, 1899, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS TBOW OIRBCTORV PRINT/HO AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK CONTENTS PAGE 1. An Evening with the Ku-Klux .... 1 IL " When Jess went a-fiddlin' " 34 III. How Aunt Minervy Ann Ran Away and Ran Back Again 70 IV. How She Joined the Georgia Legislature . 97 V. How She Went Into Business 119 VI. How She and Major Perdue Frailed Out the Gossett Boys 139 VII. Major Perdue's Bargain .157 VIII. The Case of Mary Ellen 182 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS "I ain't tergot dat ar 'possum" . Frontispiece FACING PAGE "Well, he can't lead me" 6 He wore a blue army overcoat and a stove-pipe hat . .8 "Sholy you-all ain't gwine put dat in de paper, is you?" . 10 Inquired what day the paper came out . .14 "I was on the lookout," the Major explained . .18 In the third he placed only powder 26 We administered to his hurts the best we could . 30 "I'd a heap rather you'd pull your shot-gun on me than your pen" ......... 32 The Committee of Public Comfort ..... 72 Buying cotton on his own account 76 " " Miss Vallie ! 78 vii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PACING PAGE "I saw him fling his hand to his shoulder and hold it there" 80 "Dat ar grape jelly on de right han' side" . .82 1 ! " ' " Conant ' here and Conant ' dar . .84 "Drapt down on de groun' dar an' holler an' cry" . 90 « Oh, my shoulder 1 " 122 " " Marse Tumlin never did pass a nigger on de road . 124 "We made twelve pies ef we made one" .... 126 "I gi' Miss Vallie de money" 128 "Ef here ain't oF Minervy Ann wid pies!" . .130 'You see dat nigger 'oman?" 132 'An' he sot dar, suh, wid his haid 'twix' his han's fer I dunner how long" 134 "You'll settle dis wid me" 136 "Dat money ain't gwine ter las' when you buy dat kin' er doin's" . 160 Trimmin' up de 01' Mules 162 "She wuz cryin'—settin' dar cryin'" 164 "Here come a nigger boy leadin' a bob-tail hoss" . 166 viii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE "He been axin' me lots 'bout Miss ValUe" . .172 "Marse Tumlin 'low he'll take anything what he can chaw, sop, er drink" 176 "I hatter stop an' pass de time er day" . .178 "Hunt up an* down fer dat ar Tom Perryman" . 180 is THE CHRONICLES OF AUNT MINERVY ANN i AN EVENING WITH THE KU-KLUX The happiest, the most vivid, and certainly the most critical period of a man's life is combined in the years that stretch between sixteen and twenty- two. His responsibilities do not sit heavily on him, he has hardly begun to realize them, and yet he has begun to see and feel, to observe and absorb; he is for once and for the last time an interested, and yet an irresponsible, spectator of the passing show. This period I had passed very pleasantly, if not profitably, at Halcyondale in Middle Georgia, di- rectly after the great war, and the town and the people there had a place apart, in my mind. When, therefore, some ten years after leaving there, I re- ceived a cordial invitation to attend the county fair, which had been organized by some of the enterpris- ing spirits of the town and county, among whom 1 THE CHRONICLES OF AUNT MINERVY ANN were Paul Conant and his father-in-law, Major Tumlin Perdue, it was natural that the fact should revive old memories. The most persistent of these memories were those which clustered around Major Perdue, his daughter Yallie, and his brother-in-law, Colonel Bolivar Blasengame, and Aunt Minervy Ann Perdue. Curiously enough, my recollection of this negro woman was the most persistent of all. Her individ- uality seemed to stand out more vitally than the rest. She was what is called " a character," and something more besides. The truth is, I should have missed a good deal if I had never known Aunt Minervy Ann Perdue, who, as she described herself, was " Affikin fum 'way back yander 'fo' de flood, an' fum de " word go —a fact which seriously interferes with the somewhat complacent theory that Ham, son of Noah, was the original negro. It is a fact that Aunt Minervy Ann's great-grand- mother, who lived to be a hundred and twenty years old, had an eagle tattooed on her breast, the mark of royalty. The brother of this princess, Qua, who died in Augusta at the age of one hundred years, had two eagles tattooed on his breast. This, taken in connection with his name, which means The Eagle, shows that he was either the ruler of his tribe or 2 AN EVENING WITH THE KU-KLUX the heir apparent. The prince and princess were very small, compared with the average African, but the records kept by a member of the Clopton family show that during the Revolution Qua performed some wonderful feats, and went through some strange adventures in behalf of liberty. He was in his element when war was at its hottest—and it has never been hotter in any age or time, or in any part of the world, savage or civilized, than it was then in the section of Georgia now comprised in the counties of Burke, Columbia, Richmond, and El- bert. However, that has nothing to do with Aunt Mi- nervy Ann Perdue ; but her relationship to Qua and to the royal family of his tribe, remote though it was, accounted for the most prominent traits of her character, and many contradictory elements of her strong and sharply denned individuality. She had a bad temper, and was both fierce and fearless when it was aroused; but it was accompanied by a heart as tender and a devotion as unselfish as any mortal ever possessed or displayed. Her temper was more widely advertised than her tenderness, and her inde- pendence more clearly in evidence than her un- selfish devotion, except to those who knew her well or intimately. 3 THE CHRONICLES OF AUNT MINERVY ANN . And so it happened that Aunt Minervy Ann, after freedom gave her the privilege of showing her extraordinary qualities of self-sacrifice, walked about in the midst of the suspicion and distrust of her own race, and was followed by the misappre- hensions and misconceptions of many of the whites. She knew the situation and laughed at it, and if she wasn't proud of it her attitude belied her. It was at the moment of transition from the old conditions to the new that I had known Aunt Mi- nervy Ann and the persons in whom she was so pro- foundly interested, and she and they, as I have said, had a place apart in my memory and experience. I also remembered Hamp, Aunt Minervy Ann's hus- band, and the queer contrast between the two. It was mainly on account of Hamp, perhaps, that Aunt Minervy Ann was led to take such a friendly in- terest in the somewhat lonely youth who was editor, compositor, and pressman of Halcyondale's ambi- tious weekly newspaper in the days following the collapse of the confederacy. When a slave, Hamp had belonged to an estate which was in the hands of the Court of Ordinary (or, as it was then called, the Inferior Court), to be administered in the interest of minor heirs. This was not a fortunate thing for the negroes, of which 4 AX EVENING WITH THE KU-KLUX there were above one hundred and fifty. Men, women, and children were hired out, some far and some near. They came back home at Christmas- time, enjoyed a week's frolic, and were then hired out again, perhaps to new employers. But whether to new or old, it is certain that hired hands in those days did not receive the consideration that men gave to their own negroes. This experience told heavily on Hamp's mind. It made him reserved, suspicious, and antagonistic. He had few pleasant memories to fall back on, and these were of the days of his early youth, when he used to trot around holding to his old master's coat- tails—the kind old master who had finally been sent to the insane asylum. Hamp never got over the idea (he had heard some of the older negroes talking about it) that his old master had been judged to be crazy simply because he was unusually kind to his negroes, especially the little ones. Hamp's after- experience seemed to prove this, for he received small share of kindness, as well as scrimped rations, from the majority of those who hired him. It was a very good thing for Hamp that he mar- ried Aunt Minervy Ann, otherwise he would have become a wanderer and a vagabond when freedom came. It was a fate he didn't miss a hair's breadth; 5 THE CHRONICLES OF AUNT MINERVY ANN he " broke loose," as lie described it, and went off, but finally came back and tried in vain to persuade Aunt Minervy Ann to leave Major Perdue.
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