Oklahoma Vïriterst Project	~‚	~7~j




to the cotton farms, they throwed it in the river, Taking ~em to them cotton farms is jest the reason niggers is so plentiful in the South today.

	I aintt got no education a~taU. In dem days you better not be caught with a newsDaper, else you got a beating and your back almost cut off. Then ni~gers got free, whitefoiks killed tem by the carload, tcause they said it was a nigger uorising. I used to lay On the flo1 with the whitefolks and hear tem pass. Them patrollers roved tryîn~ to ketch niggers without passes to whup tem. They was sometimes called bush whackers.LXf~

	Vie went to white folks‘ church. I was a great big girl before vie went to cullud church. We ‚ d stay out and. play wh±le they worshipped. VTe jest played marbles — girls, white chillun and all.

	The Yankees come thoot and took all the meat and everything they could find. They took horses, food and. all. Mammy coolceci their vittles. One come in our cabin and took a sack of dried fruit ~rith ~y m~yt s shoes on the top. I tried to make tem leave xnarnmyts shoes too but he didntt.

	I stayed in the house with the vihitefolks till I was 19. They lak to kept me in there too lone. That‘s why Itm selfish as I a~. VTithin three weeks after I was out of the house, I married William Douglass. Thitefoiks nov;‘ don‘t want you to tech teni, and. I slept with white chillun till I was

19.	You kin cook for tem and put your hands in they vittles and they don‘t say nothing, but jest you tech one!

	Vie stayed on, on the place, three or four years and it was right then mammy give us our pappyt s name. ~e moved from the place to one three or four miles from our master‘ s place, and. mammy cooked there a long time.

	Abraham Lincoln gits too much praise. I say, shucks, give God the praise. Lincoln come thoo Gallitan, Tennessee and sto~ped at Hotel Tavern with his wife. They was dressed jest lak tramps and nobody knowed it was him