"I 'members de Ku Klux Klan, an' I ain't got nothin' 'ginst 'em, case dey had ter do somethin' wid dem mean niggers an' de robber Yankees, who had done ruint us all. I knowed some niggers what ain't got 'long so well an' dey done mean, case dey blame de white folks; but atter awhile dey sees dat it am Massa Lincoln's fault, so dey gits quiet. I said dat we wuz glad dat de Yankees comed. We wuz, jist cause our massa warn't good lak some massas, an' at dat, we ain't want ter be free."
| N.C. District: | No. 2 |
| Worker: | Mary A. Hicks |
| No Words: | 273 |
| Subject: | A SLAVERY STORY |
| Person Interviewed: | Martha Organ |
| Date of Interview: | May 18, 1937 |
| Editor: | Daisy Bailey Waitt |
[TR: Date stamp: JUN 1 1937]
[HW: Story about the girl being burnt in front of fire.
Good. But not remarkable.
used]
A STORY OF SLAVERY
As told by Martha Organ of Cary as she heard her mother tell it many years ago.
"I doan know nothin' 'bout slavery 'cept what I hyard my mother tell, an' dat ain't so much.