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Patro11~ra

	“I was at a ball one night. They had fen~ce rails in the fire. PatroUer knocked at the door, stepped in and closed lt behind him. Nigger pulled a rail out of the fire and 8tuck it ‘galnst the patrofler and that patroller stepped aside and let that nigger get by. Niggers used to tie ropes across the road so that the patrollers‘ horses would trip up.
	~	Mulattoes

	“I never seed any IrlUiattOe8 then. That thing Is something that just come up. Old Dempsey Brown, if he seed a white man goin‘ ‘round with the nigger women on hi s place ‚ he run him away from there • ~it that‘ s gwine on In the full now.

	“That ought not to be • If God. had wanted ~ them people to mix, he ‚ d have mixed ‘em. God made ‘era red and white and black. And I‘m goin‘ to stay black. i: ain‘t climbed the fence yet and I won‘t climb it now. I don‘t know. I don‘ t believe in that . ~ IC you are white be white ‚. and if you are black be black. Children need to ~o out and play but tbese boys ought not to be ‘lowed to ran after these girls.


Whippings

	“Your overseer carried their straps with thexa. They had ‘em with ‘em all the time. J~ust like them white folks dc~ down to the County Farm. Used to use a man just like he was a beast. They‘d make him lay down on the ground and whip him. They‘d had to shoot me down. That is the reason I tend to my business. If he wouldn‘t lay down they‘d call for help and strap him down and stretch him out. Put one man on one arm and another on the other. They‘d pull his clothes down and whip the blood out of him. Them people didn‘t care what they done since they didn‘t do right.