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Interviewer Samuel S* Taylor
Person interviewed Amanda Hogs
817 Schiller Street, Little Rock, Arkansas
Age 82
"I was nine years old in the time of the surrender* I know I was here
in that time, I don f t know nothin f f bout their carryin'-on* I know they
whipped them with hobble rods. You don't know wha*t hobble rods isiU Ain f t
you seen these here long thin hick'ry shoots? They called hobble rods© I
don f t know why they called f em hobble rods# I know they made you hobble*
They'd put f em in the fire and roast f em and twist 'em* I have seen f em
whip them till the blood run down their backs* I f ve seen 'em tie the women
up, strip f em naked to their waist and whip f em till the blood run down
their backs. They had a nigger whipper, too*
ago.
"I was born in Salem, Alabama* I came up here about twenty-five years
n Isaac Adair was the name of the old man who owned me* He owned my
mother and father too, Hester and Scip. Their last name was Adair, the same
as their master 1 s*
n I don't remember the names of my grandfather and grandmother, 'cause
we was crossed up, you see* One of my grandmothers was named Crecie and the
ether was named Lydia* I don't remember my grandfather's name. I spect I
used to call 'im master* I used to remember them but I don't no more*
Nobody can't worry me 'bout them old folks now* They ast me all them ques-
tions at the Welfare* They want to know your gran'pa and your gran'ma* Who
w ere they, what did they do, where did they live, where are they now? I
don't know what they did* That's too far back for me*