Turn out here and shuck dis corn, Oh! Oh! Oh! Biggest pile o' corn seen since I was born, Oh! Oh! Oh! Jones's niggers am lean an' po'; Oh! Oh! Oh! Don't know whether dey get 'nough to eat or no, Oh! Oh! Oh! Refrain:-- Turn out here and shuck dis corn; Oh! Oh! Oh! Biggest pile o' corn seen since I was born, Oh! Oh! Oh! Half the charm of Southern life was made by the presence of the Negro. The homes that had no Negro servants were dreary by contrast with those that did. The native quality of the Negro, his natural sympathy, cheerfulness and good humor, and above all his fidelity to his master and his master's children, helped to make slavery, for both white man and black man, a very much more tolerable institution than it would otherwise have been. Almost all that has been said of slavery, whether good or bad, is probably true as far as it goes. The institution had its heartless and its human side, and, since slavery is no more, it is perhaps better to close this story with this brighter and more cheerful view. End of Project Gutenberg's The Story of Slavery, by Booker T. Washington