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~1e belonged in his days of slavery, to a Williams fatally, in Carter County, Kentucky.

	Another slave, George MoVodie, belonging to the Poage family, of Boyd Co., escaped and went to Canada, no as to whether he ever cerne back later.

	A sister o~ George Davis was sold to a planter in Loulsana where she lived until 1877, when she returned to Boyd County as a free women.

	As negroes, in slavery days, were regarded as beasts of burden not much intorest was taken in the welfare of their souls. Some kind heartad masters would allow them the privflege of meeting in religious service, where some one of their race in spite of the conditions of the times, could read and explain the Bible, would preach. Other masters would not allow this to be done. Anegrowould become, in oharacter much like the familywho owned him, i.e., an honest, moral and kindly master would have slaves of like qualities, * while a cruel, dishonest master would usually affect his slaves so that they wouldbe tricky and unreliable.

	Where the master did not personally supervise his slaves and left them to the mercies of a hired “overseer,“ their lot was usually much worse, as these task.-masters were alinost always tyranical and were not restrained by a sense of .wnership from abusing the helpless creatures under their auththrity as were the master‘s, whose money was invested in them.

~	On one oco.asio~a, a young negro saw his own sister stripped naked and unmercifully whipped by one of these over~seers. He gathered up all of his small belongings and tied them in a bundle and securing a club of wood, laid in wait for the cruel ‚ bos s ‚ unt il dark, when he killed him with the o lab • He

.	then escaped, via the “Underground Rajlrœ. d .„

	One thing he was oareful to do, was to avoid all telegraph poles, as that he thought trie wires could detect andbetray him, the telegraph was a mystery