Crossword-Solution: GOFORTH 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Knoxville, Tennessee Robert Falls was born on December 14, 1840, in the rambling one-story shack that accomodated the fifteen slaves of his Old Marster, [HW: Harry] Beattie Goforth, on a farm in Claiborne County, North Carolina.

The last time when Old Goforth sold her, to the slave speculators,--you know every time they needed money they would sell a slave,--and they was taking them, driving them, just like a pack of mules, to the market from North Carolina into South Carolina, she begun to have fits.

Then later, when I was bigger, I had to work with the men at night shelling corn, to take to town early mornings." "Marster Goforth counted himself a good old Baptist Christian.

Everybody in thet country knowed that the Goforth niggers didn't have to have no pass to go to church.

They'd hide in the bushes, or wait along side of the road, and when the niggers come from meeting, the Pattyroolers's say, 'Whar's your pass'? Us Goforth niggers used to start running soon as we was out of church.