“My father was just and good to both white and colored, and as they dwelt and workedtogether I never heard or saw one cruel act perpetrated. Theworkers were fed well, clothed well, and allowed, after their regular work, to earn wages, and thus the industrious lived most comfortably. There was not a trace of aggressiveness as there is now, but the people were jolly and always full of jokes and pranks. For instance, they had devious ways of procuring extra passes, without which they could not leave their masters' farms.”
![“There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away from the manual labor and servant-type jobs, but there wasn't much else they were going to allow you [to] do.” quote by Hank Aaron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/41c/hank-aaron-7857_athlete_there-wasn-t-much-white-people-would-all_2655242.jpg)
