mistess

You see us had to call all of our marster's chillun 'mistess' or 'marster.'

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

When I sees yo 'two a kitin' way over de fiel's an 'de fences, I says ter ma sef, Gawd-a-mighty, Je'ome, yo's got one pintedly hansome yo'ng mistess

Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home

As we started for the door mistess followed us cryin 'an' wringin 'her han's.

A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

My mistess heard me and put me in a stock and beat me.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

An 'mistess say she won't have all this cryin' round her.

A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland

The overseers warn't quality white folkses like our marster and mistess but we never heard nuffin ''bout no poor white trash in them days, and effen we had heard sumpin' like that we'd have knowed better'n to let Marster hear us make such talk!

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

So mistess and her sister, Miss Ellen, arter while, dey fotch her up to de springs.

Idle Hour Stories Eugenia Dunlap Potts

Ah wanted tuh learn tuh read so ah hung eroun ole mistess when she wuz teachin huh chillun tuh read.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Work Projects Administration

"My employer, I means my marster, and my mistess, they was sho 'all right white folkses," he continued.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

Here come in four sojers with swords hangin 'to their sides, an' never looked at mistess, but said to me, 'Auntie, you want to go with us?'

A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland