Code No.	No. Words_______
Project, i~5.-(i)	Reduced f~m  ~Words
Prepared by Annie Ruth DaVis	Re‘irritten by
Place, Marion, 8.0.	                     •	77
Date, September 21, 1937	h~—•-Lç;-- -~•-~


called de slaves fore day. Hear him say, ‘Rob, come, corne. Aaron, corne ‚ corne • ‚ We dithi‘ wo rk hard though. Didn~ iork ill hot BUfl in June, July en August cause in slavery time dey allow us to take out at 10 or Il o‘clock en go swirnrnin. Den we bad to be back in de field bout three o‘clock. Had plenty poor white neighbors bout dere en boss hire me to man like dat one t irne • Poor man give bout l~ hours for ~oon whe ‚ I get two hours back home en I never go back de next day. Boas say, ‘Why don‘ you go back to work?‘ I tell him dat fellow WOU1&i‘ give me long enough time for noon. My boas wouldn‘ force me to go back when I tell hirn dat.“

	‘$1 see one or two slaves whipped in alavery time, but I didn‘ see anybody whipped bad. If a slave on one place was accused of takin a thing on another place, dey have a trial bout it. Justice might tell dem how many licks to give him en point man to do it. I hear dat some been whipped way off till dey died, but old man £verett Nichols wouldn‘ never whip his slaves. He had son dat whipped some rough darkies dat he go t off another plac e cause old man Nichol s ~ want strange darkies to marry girls on his place. I hear way up de country dat dey whipped dem till dey died right dere.“

	“Dey had jails in slavery time at Marion for de slaves. If dey caught slaves dat hadrun away, dey would put dem in jail till dey Massa sent after dem. Sometimes dey would hold dem en sell dem for debt. Dey tell me some put on stand en sold dere