Fannie Moore at the age of 88 told the following story to a WPA interviewer circa 1936-38:
“My mammy she work in de fiel’ all day and piece and quilt all night. Den she hab to spin enough thread to make four cuts for de white fo’ks ebber night. Why sometime I nebber go to bed. Hab to hold de light for her to see by. She hab to piece quilts for de white folks too. Why dey is a scar on my arm yet where my brother let de pine drip on me. Rich pine war all de light we ebber hab. My brother was a holdin’ de pine so’s I can help mammy tack de quilt and he go to sleep and let it drop.” Library of Congress Manuscript Division