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The slaves were tasked and given certain amount 8 t o accomplish. I don‘ t know the exact amount nor just how lt was determined.


Opinions

	“It js too bad that the young Negroes ‘ t know what the old Negroes think and what they haire done. The young folks could be helped if they would take advice.“







Interviewer‘s Comment ~‚

	Badgett‘s distinctions between jayhawkers, Ku Klux, patrollers, and Ku Klux Klan are most Intere 8t Ing.

	I have been slow to catch it. All my life, I have heard persons with ex.-slave background refer to the activities of the Ku Klux among slaves ;i‘rior to 1865. 1 always thought that they had the Klux Klan and the patrollers confused. . . I

	Badgett‘s defInite and clear—cut memories, however, lead me to believe that 1D8JLY of the Negroes who were slaves used the word Ku Klux to denote a t/pe of persons who stole slave8. It was evidently in use before it was applied to the Ku Klux Klan.

	The words “Ku Klux“ and “Ku Klux Klan“ are used indiscriminately in current conver8ation and literature. It is also true that many persons in the present do, and in the past did, refer to the Ku Klux Klan 8iUIply ai “Ku Klux.“

	It is a matter of record that the organization did not at first bear the na~ “Ku flux flan“ throughout the South. The na~ ‘%~ flux“