MtA1~I‘ S FIX.. SLAVES




~	There Is a unique or~aAizatioA in the colored population of Miami known as the ~Ex Slave Club.“ This club no~ olainis twenty-five members, all over 88 years of age and all of whom weresla.ves in this oountry prior to the Civil War. The members of this interesting group are shown iii the aooompanyin~ photograph. The stories of their lives as given verbatim by these aced men and women are recorded in the following stories:


	MN~ TRIP: ‘My name‘s Annie Trip. How my name‘s Trip, I married a Trip, but I was borned in Georgia in the country not so very far from Thomas.. ville. Pm sure you must ha‘ heard of Thoxnas‘rille, Georgia. Well, that‘s where I was borr~ed, on Captain Hamliri‘s plantation.


	~Captain FIa.rnlin, he was a greatest lawyer. Henry Hamlin, you know he was the greatest lawyer what ever was, so dey tel]. me. You see I was small. My niother and father and four brothers all lived there together. Some of the rest were too small to remember rnuoh, but dey ‚wuz all borned dare just de sarney. Wish I wuz dare right now. I had plenty of food then. I didn‘t need to bother about money. Didn‘t have none. Didn‘t have rio debts to pay, no bother not like now.


	“Now I have rheumatism arid everything, ~t no money. Didn‘t need any money on Captain Hainlln‘s plantation.“ And Annie walked away oomplainin~ about rheunatism and no money, eto. before her exaot a~e and address oould be ob~ tal ned.


	~	JAillie Sampson, l82~(. 14th St. Miami, florida, was born in Manning, S. C. only three years ~bfo‘ Peaoe‘.

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