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and beocme very proficient in arithmetio.

	He says that had he had the opportunity to study that we have today he could have been the smartest man in the United States. He also says, that before freedcm, the negroes in his neighborhood were allowed no books, if found looking at a book a slave was whipped unmercifully.

	John‘s master, in allowing his slaves to marry, was much more liberal than most other slave owners, who allowed their slaves no such liberty.

„	As a rule negro men were not allowed to marry at all, any attempt to. n~ate with the negro women brought swift, sure horrible punishment and the speobs

were propogated by selected male negroes, who were kept for that purpose, the owners of this provileged negro, charged a fee of one out of every four of

his offspring for his services.

.	The employing class of Kentuokians, many of them descendents of slave


owners, are prone to be reactionary in their attitude towards those who toil, this is reflected in low wages and inferior working conditions, a conditIon which affects both white and black labor alike, in many sections of the state. (Bibliography: Rev. John R. Cø~ (colored) Catlettsburg, Kexrt~uoky. Born 1t352 (does not know day. and month), Minister A.M.E. Church. First truant officer Qatlettsburg, Kentucky. Interviewed Dec. 23, 1936.

WAY~ 00. (Gertrude Vogler)

.	“After the War was over mammie ‚ s old man did not want us with them, so


he threatened to kill us. Then my old msxnmie fixed us a little bundle of what few clothes we had and started us two Öhildren out to go back to the Campbell family inA].bany.. The road was just a wilderness and full of W1]4 animals

.	and varmints. Mazamie gave us some powder and some matches, telling us to put a little down in the road every little while and set fire to it. This would scare the wild animals away from us.

~‘We got to the rii~er a~ almost dark and s orne old woman e et us across the