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Project ‚ i&5-.~(i)	Reduced from ~	 Words
Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis	Rewritten by
Place, Marion, S.C.	 ~  ~	~ 25
Date, January 7, 193e	~age~.



lot whet dey would have a lash en a paddle to Whip ~OU with Oh, dey would bave a swarm of black people up to de lot at sunrise on a rnornin to get whip. Would make dem drop dey body frock en would band dem down to a log en would put de licks to dem. Ma was whip twice en she say dat she stay to her place after dat. I hear talk dey giv~e soue of dem 50 lashes to a whippin. Dat how it was in slavery time. Poor colored people couldn‘ never go bout en talk wid dey neighbors no time widout dey Massa say so. I say, ‘Ma, if dey been try to beat rue, I would a jump up en bite dem.‘ She say,‘You would get double portion den.S Just on account of dat, am‘ many of dem slavery peopleknockin bout here now neither, I tell you. Dat first hide dey had, white folks just took it off dem. I would a rather been dead, I say. I remember, we chillun used to set down en ax Ma all bout dis en dat. Say, ‚ Ma, yunnah couldn ‚ do nothin? ‚ She say, ‘No ‚ white people had us in slavery time.~

	“My God a mercy, I think now de best titne to live in cause I am‘ gettin no beatin dese days. If I had been big enough to get whip in slavery tune, I know I would been dead Cause I would been obliged to fight dem back en dey would kill folks for dat in dem days. If anybody hurt me, dey got to hurt back again, I say. Oose us had us task to do in dem days, but us never djdn‘ have to bother bout huntin no rations en clothes