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EX-.SLAVE STORY


An interview with Martha Allen, 78 of 1318 South Person Street, Raleigh.


	UI wuz borned in Craven County seventy eight years ago . My pappa wuz named Andrew Bryant an ‚ my mammy wuz named Harriet. My brothers wuz John 13~‘ank1in, Alfredan‘ Andrew. I am‘ t had no s isters • I reckon dat we is what yot call a general mixture case I am part Injun, part white,

an ‚ part nigg er .

	(~ ttMy xnanrniy belon~ged ter Torn Edward Gaskin an~ she wuzn‘t hal±~ fed. De cook nussed de babies while she cooked, so dat de niarmnies could wuck in de fiel‘s ‚an‘ all de marmnies done wuz stick de babies in ~t de kitchen do‘ on dere way ter de fiel‘s. Itse hyardmamrny say dat dey went ter wuck widout breakfast, an‘ dat when she put her baby in de kitchen shetd go by de slop bucket an‘ drink de slops from a long handled g~:)

	TtDe slave driver ‘.vuz bad as he could be) an‘ de slaves got ~wf‘ul beatin‘s.

	(f “De young mar~ter sorta wanted my manimy~but she tells hirn nth ‚ s o he chunks a lightwood knot an‘ hits her on de haid wid it • De se white mens what had babie s by nigger wimmens wuz called ‚ Carpet ‘ • ~y father‘ s father wuz one o‘ dem.~)