slave St~ries	.
th District
~~cl.erburgh County		~7age&~3~ 45
auafla Creel.	Joc~epn ~i11iam Carter,


	had a gOQ~1 dog called. T:I~CtO~. Hector ~:~as as gooi a coon aog as there as to be ±1ound in that ~rt o:~ the country. That ~ay we ~boys c1im~ed u~ n the mill shea to watch the sw‘ms in B1e~soe Creek ana ~ soon noticec3. a reat big fish hawk catehin~. the gosithgs. It made us ~ and. we deejc1e~3, o 1d~Ii the hav%~k. I went 1DaC~ to thé house and got an o1~ flint lock rifle ars~ Tiooney had let me carry ~7hen ~e went hur~t1~ig. ~Then I got back where or&e was, the big birl was still bus:~i catching go~Iings. m~ ±~irst shot fired broke its wing and~ I clecilecl I Woulti catch it ana take it home with

e.	The birci put up a terrible eight, cuttin~. me with its bill and. talons. ector carne running. ana tried to help me but the bird cut hirn until his w is brought help from the fle1ö~.. Mr. Jacob G~reene was passing alo~ag and. me to us. He tore me away from the bird but I could not walk and. the b1~od. as running from my body in dozens o±~ places. Poor o13. Hector, was crip~led cl. bleeding for the bird was a big eagle ani wou]Ä have killed. both o11 us

k help ~ not come~ The ola negro man still shows signs o~ his encounter Lth the eagle. He said it was öaptured an~ livea ~bo,ut four months in cap~ Lvitybut its wtng never healed.. The boiy o±~ the eagle was stuffed with leat bran, by G-reene Harris, and- Diaced in the court yard in Sumner County. ~he C~~il ~1ar changed things at the Mooney plantation,“ said the olä~ man. ‘Before the ~Var Lir. iIoone~ never had. been cruel to me. I was Mistress Puss‘s rooerty and she would never have allowed. me to be abused, but some of the ~thér slaves enthired. the most cruel treatment and were worked nearly to ~aath
	Uncle Joe‘s memory o~ slavery embraces the whole story of bondage and.

ie helpless position held. bY strong bod.ied. men and women o~ a hardy race, verpowered. by the narrow ideals of slave owners an~ cruel overseerers.~ When I was a little bitsy child and. still lived. with ~ Garä.ner,“ saie

he old. man, “I saw many o~ the slaves beaten to death. Master~ Gard.ner‘ .~ . • . L]4fl‘ t do auy of the whIpp in ‚ but ever~ Cew months he sent to Mississ i~i~I