SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

She lenane loose and hollered* Then she oalled for William to come and heat
me* William -was one of the colored slaves* William come to do it* Ma had
been peeping out from the kitchen watehin* the 'whole thing* When William
come up to beat me, she come out with a big carving biife and told him,
*That*s w child and if you hit him, 1*11 kill you**
"Then she sent for Tully to come and whip me, I mean to whip vgr
mother* Tully was BQT young master* Tully come and said to my mother, * I
loiow you ain*t done nothin* nor your child neither, but 1*11 have to hit you
a fevr light licks to satisfy ma**
"Blount come the next day and went dorai to where pa was making shoes*
He said, * Daniel, you* re looking migjhty glum**
"pa said, *You*d be lookin 1 glum too if your wife and chile had done
been beat up for nothin***
"When he said that, Blount got mad* He snatched up a shoe hammer and
hit pa up side the head with it*
11 Pa said, *By God, don*t you try it again**
"Blount didn*t hit h3m again* Pa was rea