Oode No.	No. Words________
Project, i~5~(i)	Reduced f~~Tri  ~à~ds
Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis	Rewritten by	•
Place, Marion, S.C.		: lb
Date, December i6, 1937	Page 5.



talk dey would wash dem wid. dey blood. Dat first hide dey had, white folks would whip it off dem en den turn round en grease dem wid tallow en make dem work right on. Always would inflict de punishment at sunrise in de mornin fore dey would go to work. Den de women, dey would force dem to drop dey body frock cross de shoulder8 so dey could get to de naked skin en would have a strap to whip dem wid. Wouldn‘ never use no board on de women. Oh, dey wo~ild have de lot scatter bout full of dem what was to get whip on a rnornin.“

	~You see, de colored people couldn never go nowhe‘ off de place widout dey would get a walkin ticket from dey Massa. Yes,rnam, white folks would have dese pataroller walkin round all bout de country to catch dem colored people dat never had no walkin paper to show dem. En if dey would catch any of dem widout dat paper, dey back would. sho catch scissors de next niornin. ~

	“Well, I dOII~ know as de white folkewould be meanin to kill any of dey niggers, but I hear talk dey would whip dem till dey would die some of de time en would bury dem in de night. Oouldn‘ bury dem in de day cause dey wouldn‘ have time. When dey would be gwine to bury dem, I used to see de lights many a time en hear de people gwine along singin out yonder in dem woods just like dey was buryin buzzards. Us would set down en watch dem gwine along many a nicht wid dese great big torches of fire. Oh, dey would have fat I ightwood torches. De se here big hand splinters . Had. to