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MARY ~ GLADDY,

EX—SLAVE

Place o:t birth:	On the Holt plantation, iii M~iscoges County, nsar Colu.mbua, Georgia.

Date or birth:	About 1853.

pre8ent residence:	In rear o~ 8O6~ - 6th Avenue, Columbus, Georgi a.
Interviewed.:	July 30, 1936.




	Her story:	~I was a small girl when the Civil Wax‘ broke out, but I remember it distinctly. I also remember the whisperings

among the slaves - - their talking of the possibility of freedom.

“My father was a very large, powerful man. During his master‘s absence, in ‘63 or ‘64, a colored foreman on the Hines Holt place once undertook to whip him; but my father wouldn‘t allow hirn to do it. This foreman then went off and got five big buck Regroes to help him whip father, but all six of them couldn‘t ‘out-man‘ my daddyl Then this foreman shot my daddy with a shot-gun, inflicting wounds from which he never fully recovered.

“In ‘65, another Negro foreman whipped one of my little brothers. This foreman was named Warren. His whipping my brother made me mad and. when, a few days later, I saw some men on horse-back whom I took to bi Yankees, I ran to them and told them about Warren - a common Negro slave - whipping my brother. And they said ‚ ‘well ‚ we will see Warren about that . ‚ But Warren heard
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