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Slave ‚ Interview .			!~ page	4
Rachel A. AuStiu~ .	.		~EC .
Jacksonville, Florida ~		~	 ~ .


man who was called the ~waiter0 there was ~o top to the Beat and the“waiter“ was exposed to the weather. He recalls when wood—. en elate and tightened ropes were used for bed springs; also the patience of “Aunt Letha“ an old. woman slave who took care of the children in the reighborhood while thei~~parents worked, and how they enjoyed watching “Uncle TJniphrey“ tan.‘ cow and pig hides.

	“Parson“ describes himself as being very fri~sky as a boy and states that he did. but very little work and got but very few whippings. Twice he ran a~way to escape being whipped and hid in asparagus beds in Sparta, Georgia until nightfall; when he returnea the. master would not whip him because he was apprehensive that he might rim away again and be Btolen by poorer whites and thuß cause trouble. The richer whites, he relates, were afraid of the poorer whites; if the latter were madeangry they would round up the owners‘ sheep and turn them loose into their cotton fields and, the sheep would eat the cotton, row by row, S

	S He compares the~relationship between the rich and poor whites during slavery with that of the white and. Negro people of today. .

	With a face full of frowns, “Parson“ teilsof a white man persuading hie mother to let him tie her to show that he was mae t er ‚ promt si rig no t t o whip her ‚ and eh e bel i eve d h im • When he had placed her in a buck (hands tied On a stick so that the BUck would turn her in any direction) he whipped her until the blOod ran down her back. .