I have chosen to do my blog post on Sarah Graves. Born in 1850 in Kentucky. She was taken to Missouri at around 6 months old, along with her 'Mama'. She was never alloted out, meaning rented to, neither was she sold.
Yes'm when a slave was allotted, somebody made a down payment and gave a mortgage for the rest. A chattel mortgage. . . ." This is an extract from her story, explaining what 'Allottment actually meant
"We left my papa in Kentucky, 'cause he was allotted to another man. My papa never knew where my mama went, an' my mama never knew where papa went." Aunt Sally paused a moment, then went on bitterly. "They never wanted mama to know, 'cause they knowed she would never marry so long she knew where he was. Our master wanted her to marry again and raise more children to be slaves. They never wanted mama to know where papa was, an' she never did," This extract explains how she and her mother were separated from her father, or Papa. I believe this shows how little the slaves were cared for that the masters would just give no thought to splitting up a family as they saw the slaves as something that could just be bought and sold and traded, regardless of how they felt about what was happening.
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