SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

dies Sood was the name of the patroller* It was like it is now* There
were certain white people who didn f t allow any of their niggers to be
whipped. I never seen a patroller on my place. I have heard of them in
other places, but the only one to come on our place was the one Uncle Hobb
beat up. He had to take it, because you couldn't put anything over on
Harris t plantation* My people was rich people* They didn't allow anybody
to cone on their places and interfere with them—their niggers.
f, I have heard my mother say that no white man ever struck her in her
life. I have had uncles that were struck* Two of them, and both of them
Killed the men that struck them. Uncle Saul killed Sdmund Smith and Uncle
George killed Ed McGehee. Uncle George's full white sister (his half-
sister) sent him away and saved him. They electrocuted Uncle Saul—they
executed him*
"White men struck them and they wouldn't take it. They didn't do
nothin' at all to Hobb Baron* He got to his boss and the white folks was
'fraid to come there after him. All of this was in slavery. My people
ain't never had no trouble with anybody since freedom; white people would
get mad with my uncles and try to do something to them, arid they wouldn't
w&rie it.
"There were three races in the neighborhood where I was raised—
niggers, Indians, and white folks. They never sent the Indians out until
1576 when I was a grown man. They sent them over there to Utah when it
became a state. I had a lot of Indian friends that went along at that
time.
"Bad blood was mixed up there and you couldn f t do nothing to anybody
^d get away with it*
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