Alabama		Preston K~ein,
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L~ii:i~i		Jack Kytle, ~d1tor.
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	CarrieDavis said. “Honey, dere was a lot of cruel things done in Elavery ~j~~g•I~


	She was washing when I arrived at. her shanty near Smith‘s Station, A1~.barna. She asked, as so many of the old Negroes do, “Has you come to help me?“ I said: 11No, Carrie; I want you~to tell me about slavery.“

	She shook her gray head, recalled: “Dem was good an‘ bad times, i.istus; good an‘ bad. I had a purty good marster; but de marster on de ~~ntation dat ~‘ined our‘n was mighty mean. He was a bad. man, no

:atter if de slaves behaved. or not.

	L “Hofley, I ‘members dat he had regular days to whup all de slaves ~ v:~ strops. De strops had holes In ‘em so dat dey raised big blisters.

~ D~sr dey took a hand saw, cut de blisters and/washed ‘em in salt wat~‘.

I O~r 0]) I~iistus has put salve on aheap of hacks so dey could ~1t delr

\ ~irts off. ~e si~irts‘d stick, you see. De slaves would come to our ~i: ~ for water an‘ ~istus would see ‘em. )

	Asked about her life as a slave, she sald “I w~s borned. in

:~~:(.lS 0ounty, ~eorgia, an‘ was ~ ten or twelve when freedom come.

: :« ::.animy an ‚ pappy was Liartha an ‚ Nathan Perry and had s eben chi hun. ~~es me, dere was Amy, Ide, Knoxie, Jim, Abraham, an‘ Franklin.

	~‘U~ lived in de Perry quarters. De cabins was made of split

~ ‚ put up edgeways and daubed wid mud inside an‘ out. Dey was ‘bout

~ .‚ ~:.red yards from de big house, whar Marster Bj11~ an‘ Mistus Nancy

:~~:; lived. Deir chillunwas Clara 1~aria, Malinda, 5ara, Alec, 31m, an‘ :~TT. Dey was real good to us, too. Us et at de big house. Course

~ :~-):)d was cooked on de fireplace, but us had meat and greens btv~• ~4 ..~ch biscuits. Us had couards an‘ cabbage, too.

	“Sometimes us would have wIld game, ‘ca‘se de men hunted lots