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	“Oiie old log house there used to be old lady Lucy Goobian‘ a hc~, It has foui‘ rooma. It has a hail running through lt. It waa built in slave times. There la a spring about two hundred yards from it. That ja about ten 01 twelve feet deep. There la a big C7~1O88 tree trunk hollowed out and sunk down in lt to nzke a curbing. That cypress is about two or three feet acrOss. The old man, Henry Goodman, sunk that cypress down in there in slavery time. He drove an ox team all the time. That is ai]. the work he done. She would tell all the overseers, ‘Now, don‘t you too]. with Henry because we ain‘t never whipped him ourselves.‘

	“I don‘t know who lt is that is living now. It‘s been fifty years ago since I was there.


Right After Freedcii

	“Right after freedom, when the surrender came ‚ my mother was just a girl ‘bout fifteen or sixteen. She married after treedcsa. Her and her husband farmed for a living—-you know, sharecropped.


KU flux Klan

	‘~The Ku Klux and the pateroles were the same thing, only the Klan was more up to date. ‘ s all set up with a hellish principle • It‘ s old Pharaoh exactly.

	“The ia~ iaux Klan didn‘ t have no part iculai~ effect on the NegrO except to scare him~

	“i?hen the emancipation caxr~ about, the people of the South went to work to see what they could do about it. The whole South was under martial law. Soriie of the people forn~d the KiL Klux Klan to keep the Negro down. I never ~OBieniber that they bothered any of our family or the people in our houas.

~it they scared aune and whipped more ‚ and killed a~.