FOLKLOR~~ SUB3~CTS
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Name of Interviewer ~— s. :~. Taylor subject ~- Slaves: Pig~it with Master (Junior) Story or Information
	~ ~— ————~———~—~—— MY mother‘s first ma5ter was nanied Easly, ana her second was named

NeelY. She and her young master, John McNeely,who was raised with her anl who wai about the same age as she was ~ got to fighting one day and she whipped him clear as a whi8tle. After she whipped him that fight went all over the country. She was between sixteen and seventeen years old an he was about the same. She had never been whipped by the white folks.

	She was in the kitchen. I don‘t know what the trouble started over. But they had an argument. There were some other white boys in the kitchen with her young master, and they kept pushing the two of them up to fight. He wanted to show off; so he told her what he would do to her if she diCn‘ t hush her mouth. She told him to just try it, and the fight was on. So they fought for about an hour, and. the other white boys egged them on.

	She said that her old master never did whip here and she %ire wa~ •n‘t going to let the young one do it. I never heard that they punished her for whipping her young master. I never heard her say that anybody tried to whip her at any other time. My mother was a strong woman. She could lift One end of a log with any man.

	~ —————~—~—~ — ~ — — ~ — This infovmation given by Bliaa Washington ( Negro Woman )

Place of residence ~- 151? ‘Nest 17th Street, Little Rock, Arkansas

Occuoati on ~— Washing and Ir oning ‚ when able ( Age about 7?.)