Storiea Prom Ex-Slaves ~- (~i11iam Pratt)
Pace 2 2~?8~

	“±ier the war the Ku Klux didn‘t bother us but the Red Shirts come and wanted us to join them, that is they wanted my brother to join. He wouldn‘t join though. i~iy brother.~.in~1aw joined arid wore one of the shirts with them. He ~vanted 7ade Hampton elected as he believed it was best for us. He was a Democrat and said they all ought to wear them. Once some mischief was played on a Negro who was a Republican and voted for Chamberlain. He was given a card and told to go to a certain merchant and s~tow the card to him, that the mer~ chant was a Chamberlain mari and would ~zive him supplies. He showed the card to the merchant who ~ot mad and told the Negro i±~ he didn‘t get out 0±! his store he would kill him.

	“Some o1~ the old folks sometimes saw ghosts. A negro went

to church one night on a horse, and somebody slipped up behind and spurred the horse. The Ne8ro went home as ±bast as he could, saying that he had seen a ghost. ~

	~	“When Preedom come, Old iiian Kennedy took it well and saie • we was all free, but his wife just cursed us and said, ‘Dam~j you, you are free now‘. Old Marse Kennedy had some sons killed inthe war. Jamesand Douglas Kennedy lived in Chester County after the war.

	.	“We used to dance jigs byourself, and. we danced the ihack~ back‘, skipping backwards and forwards ~acin~ each other. When one danced a jig he vvouldsin~, ‘Juber this, Juber that, Juber kills a yellow cat‘. iViy brother used to singa cotton picking song: ‘My mammy got meat skin laid away; grease my belly three times a dayt.
~We was Baptist arid baptized by immersion. An old Baptist		:~:
	song that was SUfl8 at the baptism was: ‘Trouble water today, trouble	t~

water today, trouble water today. He wilisave you, He ~vill save you; come to Jesus today, come to Jesus today, come to Jesus today. He ~vil1 save you, He will save you, just now. t

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