‚	Mabel Parrior,
	À1aba!~~a	• . :tC~9o~	Lois Lynn,	~	46
	~	Montgomery, Alabama.
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	(Martha Bradley) .	r .‚
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	Aunt Martha as she is known to ai]. her ttwhite folks ‚ „ claims to be 100 years öh~-. She was a slave to Dr. It~icas of Mt. I~eigs neighborhood long before the !ar between the States. Dr.Lucas is one of the well 1~own Lucas family, with whom

General LaFayette spent some time while toaring the United States in. l~21I.
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UQ~ Marster wuz sho good. to all his 11niggers“ She said. Us allus had plenty

to eat and. plenty to wear, but de days now is hard, if white folks gin you a nickel or dime to git you suinpin‘ t‘ eat you has to write everything down in a book before you can gît it. I allus worked in the field, had to carry big logB,had strops on my arms and. them logs was put in de strop and. hauled to a pile where they all w~iz.

One morning hit was rairiin1 ail I Œidn‘ wanna go to the field, but de overseet he come and got me and started whooping me, I jumoed on him and bit and kicked him ‘tu he lemme go, I d.ithi‘ t know no better then, I didn~ t know he was de one to do dat. U

‘!But Marster Lucas gin. us big times on Christmas an.d July. Us ‘ud have big

dinners and all the lemonade us could drink. The &iimer‘d be spread out on de

~ou21d au1 all the ~dggers would stand. rount ax~.d eat aU dey wanted. What was lef‘ lis‘ d~ take it to our cabins . Nancy Lucas wuz de cook fer eber‘ body. Well, she‘d sho cook good cake and had plenty of ~em but she wouldn‘t lak to cut dem cakes often. She keep sein in a safe. One day I go to dat safe and. I seed. some and I wa~ted it so

bad. till I jes‘ had to have some. Nancy sa~j to me, ‘Martha, did you cut dat cake? ‘I Say, No sir! dat knife just flew ‘roun by itself and. cut dat cake.‘

	UOne day I w~iz workin‘ in de field and de overseer he come roun and say siimpin‘ to i~ie he had no bizness say. I took ~r hoe and. knocked. hirn pli~in down. I knowed I ‚ se ~ne surnom‘ bad. so I r~ to de bushes. Marster Lucas come and got me~arted

	W~QQQj~$ me. I say to Marster Lucas whut dat overseer sez to me and Marster Lu.cas ~ did~‘ hLt me no more. Marse Lucas wuz allus good to us and. he wouldn‘ let no~ody run
Över h~s niggers. I~