GEORGE YOUNG AGE 91 ALABAMA #20 I WAS BORN ON WHAT WAS KNOWN AS DE CHAPMAN PLACE, FIVE MILES NORTHWEST OF LIVINGDTON, OF AUGUST 10, 1846. MY NAME WAS GEORGE CHAPMAN AND I HAD FIVE BROTH ERS, ANDERSON, HARRISON, WILLIAM, HENRY AND SAM, AND THREE SISTERS, PHOBE, FRANC ES AND AMELIA. MY MOTHER'S NAME WAS MARY ANN CHAPMAN AND MY FATHER'S NAME WAS S AM YOUNG, BUT HE BELONGED TO MISTER CHAPMAN. US ALL BELONG TO GOVERNOR REUBEN C HAPMAN OF ALABAMA. ,HE OVERSEER'S NAME WAS MISTER JOHN SMITH, AND A O,H 'S NAMEWAS MISTE R LA WLER. HE WAS DERE DE YEAR I WAS BORN, AND THEY CALLED IT "LAWLER YEAR." BOTH O F EM WAS MEAN, BUT LAWLER, I HEAR TELL, WAS DE MEANEST. DEY HAD OVER THREE HUND RED SLAVES, CAUSE DEY HAD THREE PLANTATIONS, ONE AT BODKA, ONE IN HUNTSVILLE AND DIS HERE ONE. I CAN'T SAY MARSE CHAPMAN WASN'T GOOD TO US, CAUSE HE WAS ALL DE TIME IN HUNTSVILLE AND JES COME DOWN NOW AND DEN AND BRI G8HIS6FA I$Y O2 EE ABOUT THINGS. BUT DE OVERSEERS WAS SURE MEAN. I SAW SLAVES PLENTY TIMES WITH IRON BANDS AROUND THEIR ANKLES AND AHOLE IN DE BAND AND AN IRON ROD WHAT WENT UP DE OUTSIDE OF THEIR LEG TO DE WAIST AND FASTEN TO ANOTHER IRON BAND AROUND DE WAIST. DIS WAS TO KEEP EM FROM BENDING T HEIR LEGS AND RUNNING AWAY. DEY CALL IT PUTTING DE STIFF KNEE ON YOU, AND IT SU RE MADE EM STIFF] SOMETIMES IT MADE EM SICK, TOO, CAUSE DEY HAD DEM IRON BANDS SO TIGHT AROUND DE ANKLES, DAT WHEN DEY TOOK EM6OFF IVE , I GSWAS UNDER EM, A $` DAT IS WHAT GIVE EM FEVER, DEY SAY. US HAD TO GO OUT IN DE WOODS AND GET MAY APPLE ROOT AND MULLEN WEED AND ALL SUCH TO BOIL FOR TO CURE DE FEVER. MISS, WHERE WAS DE LORD IN DEM DAYS? WHUT WAS HE DOING? BUT SOME OF EM RUNNED AWAY, ANYHOW. MY BROTHER, HARRISO), WAS6ON(, AND D(Y SET DE NIGGER DOGS ON HIM LIKE FOX HOUNDS RUN A FOX TODAY. DEY DIDN'T RUN HIM DOWN TILL ABOUT NIGHT, BUT FINALLY DEY CAUGHT HIM, AND DE HUNTERS FETCHED HIM TO DE DOOR AND SAY:"MARY ANN, HERE HARRISON." DEN D(Y T RNED DE S O EON HIM AGAIN, AND SUCH A SCREAMING YOU NEVER HEARD. HE WAS ALL BLOODY AND MAM*Y6WAS8H OLLERING, "SAVE HIM, LORD, SAVE MY CHILE, AND DON'T LET DEM DOGS EAT HIM UP." MISTER LAWLER SAID:"DE LORD AIN'T GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS HERE," AND IT SURE LOOK LIKE HE DIDN'T, CAUSE DEM DOGS ABOUT CHEWED HARRISON UP. DEM WAS HARD TIME S, SURE. D(Y DIDNT LEARN US O,HI G AND DIDNT AL OW US O LE N5 O, !.IF DEY CAT CH US LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE, DEY CUT OUR HAND OFF. DEY DIDNT ALLOW US TO G O TO CHURCH, NEITHER. SOMETIMES US SLIP OFF AND HAVE A LITTLE PRAYER MEETING BY OURSELVES IN A OLD HOUSE WITH A DIRT FLOOR. DEY WOULD GET HAPPY AND SHOUT AND COULDNT NOBODY HEAR EM, CAUSE DEY DIDNT MAKE NO FUSS ON DE DIRT FLOO, AND6ONE STANDING IN DE DOOR AND WATCH. SOME FOLKS-PUT DEY HEAD&rN& EWASH POT TO PRAY, AND PRAY EASY, AND SOMEBODY WATCHING FOR DE OVERSEER. US GET WHrPPEDFoOREEenY THING IF IT WAS PUBLIC KNOWED. US WASNT ALLOWED TO VISIT NOBODY FROM PLACE TO PLACE, AND I2S W-JrM D O), THIS HERE IVERSON DAWSON'S DADDY; I SAW HIM STAKED OUT6WI,H ST K \. D(YLAID HIM DOWN ON HIS BELLY AND STRETCH HIS HANDS OUT ON BOTH SIDES AND TIE ONE TO ONE STAKE, AND ONE TO DE OTHER. BOTH HIS FEET WAS STRETCHED OUT AND TIED TO DEM ST AKES. DEN DEY WHUPPED HIM WITH A WHOLE BOARD WHAT YOU COVER A HOUSE WITH. DE D ARKIES HAD TO GO DERE IN DE NIGHT AND TAKE HIM UP IN A SHEET AND CARRY HIM HOME, BUT HE DIDNT DIE. HE WAS ACCUSED OF GOING OVER TO DE NEIGHBORS PLANTATION AT N IGHT. NINE O'CLOCK WAS DE LAST HOUR US HAD TO BE CLOSED IN. HEAD MAN COME OUT A ND HOLLERED "OH YES] OH YES] EVERYBODY IN AND DOORS LOCKED." AND IF YOU WASNT , YOU GOT WHIPPED. WASNT NOBODY ALLOWED TO COURT. US JES TOOK UP GE,HnR jND7 O HEA<, ND D AT THING WASNT FIXED TILL AFTER SURRENDER. EPATTEROLLES COME FROM DIFFERENT PLACES, AND DE TANKSLEYS, DE POTTS, DE C OCKERELLS AND DE GREGORYS WAS NEIGHBORS. I MAY OF WENT TO DEY HOUSE AND DEY CLA IM TO PROTECT ME PLAYING WITH DEIR LITTLE NIGGER CHILLUN, BUT IF DE PATTEROLLERS CATCH ME, DEY CLAIM DET WASNT RESPONSIBLE. ONE DAY, DEY TOOK OUT AFTER ME AND I COME RIGHT HERE IN LIVINGSTON, BUT I WAS GOING TO RUN AWAY ANYHOW, CAUSE I HA D SEEN OLD UNCLE THORNTON DAT MORNING. SEE, I WAS DE CALF NURSER AND SOON AS I LEFT DE HOUSE I MET HIM, AND HERE COME DE OVERSEER, MISTER SMITH. HE SENT AFTE R ME AND HE SAID:"I SAW SIX NIGGERS IN DE WOODS WHAT RUN AWAY, AND ASKED DID I S | OLD MAN THORNTON. I SAID " NO, I AINT SEEN NOBODY." HE SAID:"NEVER MIND. I MAKE YOU TELL A BETTER TALE DAN DAT IN DE MORNING." O6>HEN I6WENT6WI,H DE2s O P TO THEM CALVES I GOT TO THINKING ABOUT THAT WHIPPING SO I COME RIGHT HERE. MISTER NORVILLE HAD A WOOD SHOP RIGHT ACROSS DE ROAD DERE BY DE WHITE6FOLKS ' BAPTIST CHURCH AND I HID IN DE BACK OF IT DAT NIGHT. BUT DEY FOUND ME AND TOO K ME BACK. DEN DEY STOPPED ME FROM CALF NURSING AND PUT ME IN DE FIELD UNDER TH E HEAD MAN. I WAS GLAD OF DAT, CAUSE I WANTED TO BE WITH DE OTHER HANDS, BUT WH EN I WAS OUT HOW IT WAS, I WANTED TO BE BACK. IT WAS A HARDER TASK DEN WHEN I WAS NURSING CALVES AND KEEPING EM FROM BREAKING IN DE FIELD AND EATING UP DE CRO P. I WAS A GOOD HAND AND OBEYED DE OWNERS AND DE8HEAD MAN AND NEV R8HADN O BU SE ABOUT WORK. I WENT ONE TIME TO BENNET'S STATION, TEN MILES BELOW HERE, WITH JES SEVEN MORE NIGGERS FROM DE CHAPMAN PLACE, AND US DRIVE OVER A ,+OUSANDHEAD OF CATTLE TO ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AND NEVER HAD NO TROUBLE. I WAS EASY PLEASE<,7G IVE ME A PIECE OF CANDY AND I'D LICK IT TILL MY MOUTH WAS SORE. I RECKON IT WAS ALL RIGHT, BUT I DONT KNOW. ALL THE NATIONS COULDNT RULE JES LIKE IT IS O>, D E STRONGEST PEOPLE MUST RULE. AFTER SURRENDE, DEY TOOK A DARKY FOR PROBATE JU G(, BUT DAT GG R IDNT K NOW NOTHING AND HE COULDNT RULE; SO DEN THEY TOOK A WHITE MAN NAMED SANDERS AND 8HE DONE ALL RIGHT. WE WAS UNDER HARD TASK MASTERS AND I AM GLAD D(Y SET ME6 RE E, CAUSE I WAS UNDER BURDEN AND BOUND. BUT IGNORANCE CANT RULE, IT SURE CANT. WE IS DARKIES, AND WHITE FOLKS OUGHT TO BE FAVORABLE. SOME SPEAKS BETTER WORDS DAN OTHERS, BUT EVERYBODY GOT DE SAME HEART, AND DAT IS ALL I KNOWS. NO, MAM, I DONT KNOW NOTHING ABOUT NO SPIRITS, EITHER, BUT CHRIST APPEARED TO DE APOSTLES, DIDNT HE, AFTER HE BEEN DEAD? AND I HAVE SEEN FOLKS DONE BEEN D EAD JES AS NATURAL IN DE DEY AS YOU IS NOW. ONE DAY ME AND MY WIFE WAS PICKING OTTON R!HT OUT YONDER ON MISTER WHIT('S PLAC(,AND I OOKED P ND2S W A M N A LL DRESSED IN BLACK, WITH A WHITE SHIRT BOSOM, HIS HAT SITTING ON ONE SIDE, RIDI NG A BLACK HORSE. I STOOP DOWN TO PICK SOME COTTON, DEN LOOK UP AND HE WAS GONE. I SAID TO M Y WIFE -- I CALL HER GLOVER BUT SHE GO BY TWO NAMES -- I SAID,"GLOVER, WONDER WH ERE DAT MAN WENT WHAT WAS RIDING ALONG YONDER ON DAT PACING HORSE?" SHE SAY:"WHAT PACING HORSE AND WHAT MAN?" I SAID:"HE WAS COMING DOWN DAT BANK BY DAT DITCH. DEY AINT NO BRI GE DER(, AND NO HOSS COULD JUMP IT." GLOVER SAID:"WELL, I'M GOING IN DE HOUSE CAUSE I DONT FEEL LIKE PICKrNG OT TON TODAY." BUT I AINT SCARED OF EM. I GETS OUT OF DE PATH PLENTY OF TIMES TO LET EM B Y, AND IF YOU CAN SEE EM, YOU WALK AROUND EM. IF YOU CANT SEE EM, DEN DEY WILL WALK AROUND YOU. IF DEY GETS TOO PLENTIFUL, I JES HANGS A HOSS SHOE UPSIDE DOW N OVER DE DOOR, AND DONT HAVE NO TROUBLE. BUT EVERYBODY OUGHT TO HAVE DAT KIND OF MIND, TO HONOR GOD. HE APPEARED TO DE DISCIPLES AFTER HE DIED, AND HE SAID A LSO:"PETER, I WILL GIVE YOU DE KEYS TO DE KINGDOM." BUT PETER DIDNT HAVE NOBODY 'S KEYS EXCEPT HIS OWN. DONT YOU KNOW IF HE HAD OF GIVEN PETER ALL DEM KEYS, TH ERE IS A HEAP OF FOLKS PETER GOING TO KEEP OUT OF DERE JES FOR SPITE? GOD AINT GOING TO DO NOTHING THAT FOOLISH. PETER DIDNT HAVE NOBODY'S KEYS EXCEPT HIS OWN. I WAS BORN ON WHAT WAS KNOWN AS DE CHAPMAN PLACE, FIVE-MrLESNORTHWEST OF LIVINGDTON, OF AUGUST 10, 1846. MY NAME WAS GEORGE CHAPMAN AND I HAD FIVE BROTH ERS, ANDERSON, HARRISON, WILLIAM, HENRY AND SAM, AND THREE SISTERS, PHOBE, FRANC ES AND AMELIA. MY MOTHER'S NAME WAS MARY ANN CHAPMAN AND MY FATHER'S NAME WAS S AM YOUNG, BUT HE BELONGED TO MISTER CHAPMAN. US ALL BELONG TO GOVERNOR REUBEN C HAPMAN OF ALABAMA. THE OVERSEER'S NAME WAS MISTER JOHN SMITH, jND jNOTHnR'S-NjME WAS-MIScnRLA WLER. HE WAS DERE DE YEAR I WAS BORN, AND THEY CALLED IT "LAWLER YEAR." BOTH O F EM WAS MEAN, BUT LAWLER, I HEAR TELL, WAS DE MEANEST. DEY HAD OVER THREE HUND RED SLAVES, CAUSE DEY HAD THREE PLANTATIONS, ONE AT BODKA, ONE IN HUNTSVILLE AND DIS HERE ONE. I CAN'T SAY MARSE CHAPMAN WASN'T GOOD TO US, CAUSE HE WAS ALL DE TIME IN HUNTSVILLE AND JES COME DOWN NOW AND DEN AND BRING HIS FAMILY TO SEE ABOUT THINGS. BUT DE OVERSEERS WAS SURE MEAN. I SAW SLAVES PLENTY TIMES WITH IRON BANDS AROUND THEIR ANKLES jND A qOLE IN DE BAND AND AN IRON ROD WHAT WENT UP DE OUTSIDE OF THEIR LEG TO DE WAIST AND FASTEN TO ANOTHER IRON BAND AROUND DE WAIST. DIS WAS TO KEnP nM oROM BnNDrNG T HEIR LEGS AND RUNNING AWAY. DEY CALL IT PUTTING DE STIFF KNEE ON YOU, AND IT SU RE MADE EM STIFF] SOMETIMES IT MADE EM SICK, TOO, CAUSE DEY HAD DEM IRON BANDS SO TIGHT AROUND DE ANKLES, DAT WHEN DEY TOOK nM-OFF-LIVE THr S6f S un nR&n*,&A ND DAT IS WHAT GIVE EM FEVER, DEY SAY. US HAD TO GO OUT IN DE WOODS AND GET MAY APPLE ROOT AND-MuLLnN WEED jND jLL SUCH tO2kOrLFoOR3 OCCu EDE FEVER. MISS, WHERE WAS DE LORD IN DEM DAYS? WHUT WAS HE DOING? BUT SOME OF EM RUNNED AWAY, ANYHOW. MY BROTHER, HARRISON, WAS-ONE, jND&DEY SET DE NIGGER DOGS ON HIM LIKE FOX HOUNDS RUN A FOX TODAY. DEY DIDN'T RUN HIM DOWN TILL ABOUT NIGHT, BUT FINALLY DEY CAUGHT HIM, AND DE HUNTERS FETCHED HIM TO DE DOOR AND SAY:"MARY ANN, HERE HARRISON." DEN DEY TURNED DE mOGSLOOSE ON HIM AGAIN, AND SUCH A SCREAMING YOU NEVER HEARD. HE WAS ALL BLOODY AND MAMMY WAS H OLLERING, "SAVE HIM, LORD, SAVE MY CHILE, AND DON'T LET DEM DOGS EAT HIM UP." MISTER LAWLER SAID:"DE LORD AIN'T GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS HERE," AND IT SURE LOOK LIKE HE DIDN'T, CAUSE DEM DOGS ABOUT CHEWED HARRISON UP. DEM WAS HARD TrME S, SURE. DEY DIDNT LEARN US NOTHING AND DIDNT ALLOW US TO LEjRN-NOTHrNG.&IF DEY&CAT CH US LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE, DEY CUT OUR HAND OFF. DEY DIDNT ALLOW US TO G O TO CHURCH, NEITHER. SOMETIMES US SLIP OFF AND HAVE A LITTLE PRAYER MEETING BY OURSELVES IN A OLD HOUSE WITH A DIRT FLOOR. DEY WOuLD GET HjPPY jND SqOUT jND COULDNT NOBODY HEAR EM, CAUSE DEY DIDNT MAKE NO FUSS ON DE DIRT FLOOR, jNDONE STANDING IN DE DOOR AND WATCH. SOME FOLKS PUT DEY HEAD rN DE WASH-POT tOPRAY, AND PRAY EASY, AND SOMEBODY WATCHING FOR DE OVERSEER. US GET WHIPPED FOR EVERY THING IF IT WAS PUBLIC KNOWED. US WASNT ALLOWED TO VISIT NOBODY FROM PLACE TO PLACE, AND I SAW JIM DAWsON, THIS HERE IVERSON DAWSON'S DADDY; I SAW HIM STAKED OUT WITH STAKES. DEY LAID HIM DOWN ON HIS BELLY AND STRETCH HIS HANDS OUT ON BOTH SIDES AND TIE ONE TO ONE STAKE, AND ONE TO DE OTHER. BOTH HIS FEET WAS StRETCHEDOUT AND TIED TO DEM ST AKES. DEN DEY WHUPPED HIM WITH A WHOLE BOARD WHAT YOU COVER A HOUSE WITH. DE D ARKIES HAD TO GO DERE IN DE NIGHT AND TAKE HIM UP IN A SHEET AND CARRY HIM HOME, 2BUT HE DImNT DIE. HE W S ACC bEDOF GOING OVER TO DE NEIGHBORS PLANTATION AT N IGHT. NINE O'CLOCK WAS DE LAST HOUR US HAD TO BE CLOSED IN. HEAD MAN COME OUT A ND HOLLERED "OH YES] OH YES] EVERYBODY IN AND DOORS LOCKED." AND IF YOU WASNT , YOU GOT WHIPPED. WASNT NOBODY ALLOWED TO COURT. US JES TOOK UP tOGETHnR jND pO AHEAD, jnD&D AT THING WASNT FIXED TILL AFTER SURRENDER. DE PATTEROLLES COME FROM DIFFERENT PLACES, AND DE TANKSLEYS, DE POTTS, DE C OCKERELLS AND DE GREGORYS WAS NEIGHBORS. I MAY OF WENT TO DEY HOUSE AND DEY CLA IM TO PROTECT ME PLAYING WITH DEIR LITTLE NIGGER CHILLUN, BUT IF DE PATTEROLLERS CATCH ME, DEY CLAIM DET WASNT RESPONSIBLE. ONE DAY, DEY TOOK OUT AFTnR-ME jnD I COME RIGHT HERE IN LIVINGSTON, BUT I WAS GOING TO RUN AWAY ANYHOW, CAUSE I HA D SEEN OLD UNCLE THORNTON DAT MORNING. SEE, I WAS DE CALF NURSER AND SOON AS I LEFT DE HOUSE I MET HIM, AND HERE COME DE OVERSEER, MISTER SMITH. HE SENT AFTE R ME AND HE SAID:"I SAW SIX NIGGERS IN DE WOODS WHAT RUN AWAY, AND ASKED DID I S EE OLD MAN THORNTON. I SAID " NO, I AINT SEEN NOBODY." HE SAID:"NEVER MIND. I MAKE YOU TELL A BETTER TALE DAN DAT IN DE MORNING." SO WHEN I WENT WITH DE sLO P TO THEM CALVES I GOT TO THINKING ABOUT THAT WHIPPING SO I COME RIGHT HERE. MISTER NORVILLE HAD A WOOD SHOP RIGHT ACROSS DE ROAD DERE BY DE WHITEFoO KS ' BAPTIST CHURCH AND I HID IN DE BACK OF IT DAT NIGHT. BUT DEY FOUND ME AND TOO K ME BACK. DEN DEY STOPPED ME FROM CALF NURSING AND PUT ME IN DE FIELD UNDER TH E HEAD MAN. I WAS GLAD OF DAT, CAUSE I WANTED TO BE WITH DE OTHER HANDS, BUT WH EN I WAS OUT HOW IT WAS, I WANTED TO BE BACK. IT WAS A HARDER TASK DEN WHEN I WAS NURSING CALVES AND KEEPING EM FROM BREAKING IN DE FIELD AND EATING UP DE CRO P. I WAS A GOOD HAND AND OBEYED DE OWNERS AND DE HEAD-MjN jNDNEVER HAD NO ABU SE ABOUT WORK. I WENT ONE TIME TO BENNET'S STATION, TEN MILES BELOW HERE, WITH JES SEVEN MORE NIGGERS FROM DE CHAPMAN PLACE, jND US mRIVE-OVnR A TqOUbjnD&HEAD OF CATTLE TO AtLjNTA, GnORGIA, jND-NEVnR HADNO TROUBLE. I WAS EASY PLEASED, G IVE ME A PIECE OF CANDY AND I'D LICK IT TILL MY MOUTH WAS SORE. I RECKON IT WAS ALL RIGHT, BUT I DONT KNOW. ALL THE NATIONS COULDNT RULE JES-LrKE IT IS-NOW, D E STRONGEST PEOPLE MUST RULE. AFTER SURRENDER, DEY TOOK A DARKY FOR PROBATE JUDGE, BUT DAT-NIGGnR&DImNTK NOW NOTHING AND HE COULDNT RULE; SO DEN THEY TOOK A WHITE MAN NAMED SANDERS AND HE DONE ALL RIGHT. WE WAS UNDER HARD TAsK-MASTnRS jND I jM&plAD&DEYSET ME FRE E, CAUSE I WAS UNDER BURDEN AND BOUND. BUT IGNORANCE CANT RULE, IT SURE CANT. WE IS DARKIES, AND WHITE FOLKS OUGHT TO BE FAVORABLE. SOME SPEAKS BETTER WORDS DAN OTHERS, BUT EVERYBODY GOT DE SAME HEART, AND DAT IS ALL I KNOWS. NO, MAM, I DONT KNOW NOTHING ABOUT NO SPIRITS, EITHER, BUT CHRIST jPPEjRED TO DE APOSTLES, DIDNT HE, AFTER HE BEEN DEAD? AND I HAVE SEEN FOLKS DONE BEEN D EAD JES AS NATURAL IN DE DEY AS YOU IS NOW. ONE DAY ME AND MY WIFE WAS PICKING COTTON RIGHT OUT YONDER ON MISTER WHITE'S PLACE,AND I-LOOKED uP jND SAW A-MjN&A LL DRESSED IN BLACK, WITH A WHITE SHIRT BOSOM, HIS HAT SITTING ON ONE SIDE, RIDI NG A BLACK HORSE. I STOOP DOWN tO-PIlK SOME lOTTON, DEN-LOOK uP jnD&HE6f SG n(. I SAID TO M Y WIFE -- I CALL HER GLOVER BUT SHE GO BY TWO NAMES -- I SAID,"GLOVER, WONDER WH ERE DAT MAN WENT WHAT WAS RIDING ALONG YONDER ON DAT PACING HORSE?" SHE SAY:"WHAT PACING HORSE jND WHAT-MjN?" I SAID:"HE WAS COMING DOWN DAT BANK BY DAT DITCH. DEY AINT NO BRIDGE DnRE, AND NO HOSS COULD JUMP IT." GLOVER SAID:"WELL, I'M GOING IN DE qOUSE CAUSE I mONT&FEnLLIKE PICKING COT TON TODAY." BUT I AINT SCjRED-OF nM. I GETS-OUT-OF DEPATH PLENTY OF TIMES TO LET EM B Y, AND IF YOU CAN SEE EM, YOU WALK AROUND EM. IF YOU CANT SEE EM, DEN DEY WILL WALK AROUND YOU. IF DEY GETS TOO PLENTIFuL, IJES HANGS A HOSS SHOE UPSIDE DOW N OVER DE DOOR, AND DONT HAVE NO TROUBLE. BUT EVERYBODY OUGHT TO HAVE DAT KIND OF MIND, TO HONOR GOD. HE APPEARED TO DE DISCIPLES AFTER HE DIED, AND HE SAID A LSO:"PETER, I WILL GIVE YOU DE KEYS TO DE KINGDOM." BUT PETER DIDNT HAVE NOBODY 'S KEYS EXCEPT HIS OWN. DONT YOU KNOW IF HE HAD OF GIVEN PETER ALL DEM KEYS, TH ERE IS A HEAP OF FOLKS PETER GOING TO KEEP OUT OF DERE JES FOR SPITE? GOD AINT GOING TO DO NOTHING THAT FOOLISH. PETER DIDNT HAVE NOBODY'S KEYS EXCEPT HIS OWN