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L~i~aY ~ .id~~GADY

(Princess Quango Hennadonah Perceriah)
1110 Oakwood Avenue ‚ Raleigh ‚ No rth Carolina.


	UI was eighteen years old in 1875 but I wanted to get married so I gave my age as nineteen. I wish I ~ould re— call some of the oie days when I was with my missus in Orange County, playing with my brothers and other slave children.

	UI was owned by Mr. Franklin Davis and my madam was Mrs. Bettie Lavis. I and my brother used to scratch her feet and rub them for her; you know how old folks like to have their feet rubbed. ~y brother and I used to scrap over who should scratch and rub her feet. 3he would laugh and tell us not to do that way that she loved us both. Sometimes she let me sleep at her feet at night. She was plenty good to all of the slaves. Her daughter Salue taught me my A B C‘s in •~Jebster‘s Blue Back spelling Book. ~Ihen I learned to Spell B-a-k-e~r, Baker, I thought that was something. The next word I felt proud to spell was

su.h_a~d~y, shady, the next l~a-d-y, lady. I would spell

them out loud as I picked up chips in the yard to build a fire with. My misaus Bettie gave me. a blue back spelling book.