mistis

The lady, the "mistis" of the big house, made frequent visits to the quarter lot, saw that things were kept tidy and ministered to the sick.

Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

She said it was too lonesome, and her "mistis" always let her choose her own places.

My day : reminiscences of a long life, 1909

But the good old plantation times are gone -- the times when these old family servants felt an affectionate abiding interest in the family; when our good mothers nursed their sick and old, helpless ones, and their good mothers waited so kindly upon their "mistis," as they called her, and took care of the little children by day and by night.

Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903, 1903

Sitting in her room she heard a knock at the door and in rushed Milly, with her face bathed in tears, and throwing herself at Miss Stevenson's feet she exclaimed "Oh, mistis, I cannot, cannot, leave you!"

A Military Genius Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland Sarah Ellen Blackwell

Old mistis had a son and a daughter and we all played together and slep together.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

"Oh, yes, mistis, Uncle Albert and Aunt Alice dey go too, and dey want we all to go 'long, but I's gwine ter wait untwill sees what Jack got ter say, 'cause I ain't gwine _nowha_ dragging all dem chillum along untwill I knows for sartin whar I's gwine ter stop."

Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War Fannie A. Beers

I stayed with my mistis till she went back to Virginia.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

Yes mam, she was one good mistis to me when I was a child.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

My old mistis used to take the runaway folks when the dogs had bit their legs, and keep em for a week and cure em up.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

Better _not_ ride Rob Roy -- that was old master's ridin 'hoss and my mistis saddle hoss.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration