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?15 W. Eighth Street, Little Rock, Arkan~ias

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	“My grandfather was named J~oe Glaas0 lila master was named Glass. I forget the first narre. My grandfather on my mother‘ s side was named &alth. His old master was named ~nith. The grandfather 3‘oe was born in Alabama. Grandfather ~n.tth was born in North Carolina.


Whippings

	“There were good masters and mean masters. Both of my old grand.. fathers had good masters, I bad an uncle, Anderson Fields, who had a tough master. He was so tough that Uncle Anderson had to run away. They‘d whip

him and do around, and he would ruzi away. Then they would get the dogs after him and they would run him until he would climb a tree to get away from them, They would cc~ae and surround the tree and make him cœe dom and they would whip him till the blood ran, and scmetimes they would make

the dogs bite him and he couldn‘t do nothing about it. One time he bit a dog‘s foot off. They asked him why he did that and he said the dog bit him

and he bit him back. They whipped him again. They would take him home at night and put what they called the ball and chain on him and some of the others they called unruly to keep them from running away.

	“They didn‘t whip my grandfathers. Tust one time they whipped Grandfather 3~oe. That was because he ~uldn‘t give his consent for

them to whip his wife. He wouldn‘t stand for it and they strapped him,
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