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k?lace, J~ariori, .0.	_______________________
Date, august 25, 1937	rage ~


told. him to go. 3ee him whip my mother one time cause she whip rae. Caught her b~ de hand en whip her right in de same field. dat sne whip me. It was so hot I dig holes en put my foot in de hole en dat de reason she whip me. Den if he Lind anyone steal a thing, he whip dem for dat.“

	“Dey didn‘ hAve no jails in dem days3 out I recollects one woman hanged on de galleries &gallowe). aang dem up by harness en broke neck for wrongdo ing like kill in somebody or tryin tö kill. Old. woman cookin for de Sootts, named ~eggy, tried to poison de Sootte. Mean to her, she say, en she put poison in de coffee. iiy mother walked bout 10 miles to see dat hangin cause dey turn d.c slaves loose to go to a hangin. Took her from de quarter in de wagon en I heard her tell dat de old lady, Peggy, was sittin on her coffin. 1~Iy mother say she used to use so much witchcraft en some one whispered, v~1y don‘ you do somethin bout it?‘ ~he say, ‘It too late now.‘ I hear tell bout dem hangin, but I am‘ see none of it.“

	“j~{y boss had. four slave house dat waS three or four hundred.

yards.from his house en I reckon he had bout 25 slaves. One was pole house wid. brick chimney en two rooms petitioned off en de other three waS clay house. Us had frame bed en slept on shucks en hay mattress. Dey dldn‘ give us no money but had. plenty to eat every day. Give us buttermilk en sweeten potatoes en meat en corn bread to eat mostly. Catch nigger wid wheat, dey give him ‘wheat‘. Den dey let us have a garden en extra