Seemed like that was her right, somehow, after all thet had passed 'twixt him an' her; an' in all her baby-talk to him I took notice she'd bring the "mama" in constant.

He owned my mama.

"Papa left mama at the old home place and Moster Jake let them work all they could.

They took my mama off when I was a baby to Texas to keep the Yankees from gettin' her.

"Why didn't money save me my mama?" returned the child.

"I am David Copperfield, of Blunderstone, in Suffolkwhere you came, on the night when I was born, and saw my dear mama.

I remember hearing my mama many a night ask God to help her through the struggle with her children.

"The way my mother and father happened to meetmy old master hired my daddy to do some work for him and he met my mama that way.

The folks raised my mama and they didn't want her to leave.

It was after his wife died that he sold mama to Jim Alexander's papa.

We moved from Lauderdale County to Scott County, Mississippi, and that separated mama and papa.

"Since freedom some people tried to steal my mama.

How Freedom Came "The way we learned that freedom had come, my uncle come to the fence and told my mama we were free and I went with her.

"Tigers, then?" "Ask your mama if she has ever heard tell of tigers on this continent.

She said she could trust mama

He said, 'They are going to bury mama in a heep (deep) hole.

One of these boys was my papa and I told you the old man bought my mama from Master Barton for his colored son.

They called her mama an' they called me papa, a sufficiently singular situation.

Don't fool mama, baby.

When they fotched mama and grandmother here they had eighty some odd head of niggers.