A. Lincoln, March 17, 1865
But, honey, de good ole days is now gone foreber. De ole days was railly de good times. How I wish I could go back to the days w'en we lived at Johnson's landing on de ribber.
"Aunt" Charity Anderson, Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, Alabama Narratives, Vol. I, p. 14.