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CHARLIE E. HUNTER, 80 years old,
2213 Barker Street
West Raleigh


	“~r full naine is Charlie H. Hunter ~ I wus borned t reared in Wake County ‚ N • C • ‚ born May ‚ 1857 . ~r mother

wus Rosa Hunter an‘ jr~ father wus named Jones. I never saw my father • We belonged to a family naine d Jones first ‚ ant
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tnen we 1wus sold to a slave owner seven miles ~ort1~~est ~ ~ ~ ~• by the name Joe Hayes an. ‚ a terrib le man he wus • He would get mad ‘bout most anything, take my mother, chain her down to a log and whup her unmercifully while I, a little boy, could do nothing but stan‘ there an‘ cry, an‘ see her wlthpped. ~ie had fairly good food an‘ common clothing. We had good sie eping plac e s . ~y mother wus so Id to a man named Smith. I married first Annie Hayes who lived sixteen months.

.	“No prayer meetings wus allowed on de plantations

an‘ no books of any kind. I can read an‘ write, learned in a school taught by Northern folks after the surrender, ~fr• an‘ Mrs. Graves who taught in Raleigh in the rear of the African Methodist Episcopal church. The school house wus owned by the church. We played no games in slavery titues • I saw slaves sold on the block once in. Raleigh.