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~	SlAVERY DAYS IN FRA~Ś~IN COUNTY

An interview with Lily Perry, 84 years old, of 9 McKee ~3treet, Raleigh, N. C.

	UI wus borned on ae plantation of Mister Jerry Ferry near Louisburg, about eighty-‘four years ago. I~r S daddy ‚ Riddick ‚ ‚ longe d ter him an ‚ s o did my mamm~r ‚ do she ‚ longed ter a Mist Litchford tfor e she married daddy.

	“De fu~st thin~gs dat I can remember wus bein‘ a house gal, pickin‘ up chips, mindin‘ de table an‘ feedin‘ de hogs. De slop buckets wus heavy an‘ I had a heap of wuck dat wus hard ter do. I done de very best dat I could but often I got whupped ~ist de same.

	“V~en dey‘d start ter ~hup me I‘d bite lak a run-

.	mad dog so dey‘d chain my han‘s. See hyar,. byars de scars made by de chains . ~ U also p i ck me up by de y ears ant

~) I	fling me mun‘ ‚ see hyar, I can wiggle rr~r years up an‘ down j j st lak a mule e an ‚ an‘ I can wiggle ‚ em ro un‘ an~ roun‘ lak dat, seel

	“One day I ain‘t feelin‘ so good an‘ de slops am soheavydat I stops an‘ pours out some of it. De oberseer, Zack Terrell, sees me an‘ when I gits back ter de house he grabs me ter whup me . ~