Oklahoma Wri ters1 Proj ect
Phoebe Bar~ks -.2-‘
and lots of slave children. The slave men work in the fields, chc~ping cotton, raising corn, cutting rails for the fences, building log cabins and. fireolaces, One time when father was cutting down a tree it fell on him and after that he was only strong enough to rub down the horses and. do light work around the yard. He ~ot to be a good horse trainer and. long time after slavery he heloed to train horses for-the Pree Fairs around the country, and I suppose the first money he ever earned ~vias made that way.

	Lots of the slave owners didntt want their slaves to learn read~ng and writ-. ±flE, but the Perryrnans didn‘t care; they even helped the younger slaves with that stuff. Mother said. her master didn‘t care much what the slaves do; he was so lazy he didntt care for nothing.

	They tell me about the /ar times, and that ~ s all, I remember of i t. Before the War is over some of the Perr~inan slaves and. some from the McIntosh place fix up to r~n away from their masters.

	My father and my uncle, Jacob Perryman, was some of the fixers. Some of the Creek Indians had already lost a few~ slaves who slip off to the North, and they take what was left dowr into Texas sois they couldntt get away. Some of the other Creeks was friendly to the 1~orth and was fixing to get away up there; that~s the ones my daddy and ~incle was fixing to join, for they was afraid their masters would take up ~id move to Texas befor e they could ge t away.

	.	They call the old. Creek, Who was l~aving for the North, tiOld Gouge“ (Oooetiileyohola), All our family join up with him, and theré was lots of Creek Indja~ ~a~nd sĎaxes in the outfit when they made a break for the North. The run-‘ awa7s wa~ ridiz~ pônies stolen from their masters.

	.	‚. When they get into the hilly country farther north in the country that be-‘ long to‘ the“Chei‘okéč Indians‘, ~they make ~ampon a big creek and there the‘Reb~l