Marster

I don't 'member my real ma and pa, and I called Marster

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

My Marster was a Presbyterian, b'longed to Aimwell Church.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

"Marster," one of them ventured, "big fella wind he come, strong fella too much."

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The people, having sufficiently recovered from their shock to jostle one another out of the building, stood huddled together like a flock of frightened sheep; but when the cavalcade had driven off, a subdued clamor of voices arose, all unanimous in contempt for "dese here po 'white, who'd ha' knowed better 'n to come meddlin' long o 'Marster's folks ef Marster wan't down on de bed an' mos 'like to die!"

Plantation Sketches Margaret Devereux

He wouldn't let de little ones call him 'Marster', dey had to call him and de Missus, 'Grampa' and 'Gramma'.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

"Marster," one of them ventured, "big fella wind he come, strong fella too much."

The Jessie 1911

"Marster" was the synonym for all visible good, and to hear a wonderful story read that made them "gentmans," same as

War-time sketches : historical and otherwise, Adelaide Stuart Dimitry 1911

It is a dire perplexity that they must pay their doctor's bills; they resent it as a bitter injustice that 'Marster' does not 'find them' in medicine and all the ordinary things of living as of old.

Old times in Dixie land : a southern matron's memories, 1901

"Marster" never fell from their poor lips so glibly or so often in all their lives; and even after they had been with us long enough to know it was not our purpose to put them to death, when one of them discovered his real

The end of an era, 1899

"Marster," he greeted him as if he beheld an angel of deliverance.

The end of an era, 1899