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	i~x~s1ave Stories	.	page 4,,
~ 5th District	~ ~ .	/1cm
~~~d~erbUTgl1 County	jo(~e~Tifl ~
1n~iana
~auafla Creel.

	for negro rul~rs to come to the olantatjon and whip all the negroes that ~ had not obeyed the overseei‘s. Â big barrel lay near the barn and. that was always the ~hip~in place.TT Uncle Joe remembers two or three profession~

:~‘ slave whi-m~ers an~ recalls the ~e~th off two o~ the 1ilssissip~~i whippers. He relates ti~e story as follows: “Lars Garaner ha~ one of the finest black

	smiths that I ever saw. His arms were strong, his muscles stood. out on. his breast an~L should~ers and his legs were never tired. He stood there and. shoed . horses and repaired tools day a±‘ter daj ana there was no work ever made him
tired.“	.

	o~d negro man so vivialy ~e~cribe~ the noble blacksmith that he almost peared in person, as the story advanced. ~‘I donTt know what he had. done to rile up Mars Gardner ‚ but all o±~ us knew that the Blacksmith was go ing to be flogged. ~1hen the whippers from Li~Si~s1pri got to the plantation. Thc blE.cksrnith worked on day and. night. all ~.ay he was shoein horses and 111 the spare time he had. he v~as ~akin a knife. ~7hei~ the whippers got there

11~ ~f ~ WêTe brought out to watch the whip~in but the blacksmith, Jim ~rthier did. not wait to feel the lash, he jumped right into the bunöh of

	sers and negro whipDers and, knifed two whippers and one overseer to ath; then stuck the sharp knife into his arm and. bled to death.t‘


~	se~emed the only hope for this man of strength. . He could not humble 1lm~el±‘ to the brutal ordeal 0±1 be ing beaten bY the slave whippers. .


~::3I1 the war started, we kept hearing atout the sol~iiersand finally they up their camp in the forest near us. The corn was read.y‘to bring into

~	barn and the soldiers told LTr. Mooney to let the slaves gather it and.

~	it into the barns. Some of the soldiers helped gather and. erib the :

1.	~ Wanted to help. but Miss P)ss was afraid they would press me into

~.-- ~ ~‚ ~ !‘~ hid.e in the •céllar. There was a big keg of apple cider
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