X XXX ANDREW BOONE I BELONGED TO BILLY BOONE IN SLAVERY TIME. HE WAS A PREACHER. HE LIVED AN D WONED A PLANTATION IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY. THE PLANTATION WAS NEAR WOODALND. THE NEAREST RIVER TO THE PLACE WAS THE ROANOKE. MY OLE MISSUS' NAME WAS NANCY. WHEN OLD MARSTER DIED I STAYED AROUND WITH FIRST ONE, THEN ANOTHER OF THE CHIL LENS, 'CAUSE MARSTER TOLD ME JUST BEFORE HE DIED FOR ME TO STAY WITH ANY OF 'EM I WANTED TO STAY WITH. ALL DEM OLE PEOPLE DONE DEAD AND GONE ON. NIGGERS HAD TO GO THROUGH THICK AND THIN IN SLAVERY TIME, WITH ROUGH RATION S MOST OF THE TIME, WITH JUST ENOUGH CLOTHIN' TO MAKE OUT WITH. OUR HOUSES WERE BUILT OF LOGS AND COVERED WITH SLABS. DEY WAS RIVED OUT OF BLOCKS OF TREES ABO UT EIGHT FEET IN LENGTH. DE CHIMLEYS WAS BUILT OF STICKS AND MUD, DEN A COAT OF CLAY MUD DAUBED OVER 'EM. DE CRACKS IN DE SLAVE HOUSES WAS DAUBED WITH MUD TOO. WE6WORKED FROM SUN TO SUN. IF WE HAD A FIRE IN COLD WEATHER WHERE WE WAS W ORKIN' MARSTER OR DE OVERSEER WOULD COME AND PUT IT OUT. WE ET FROZN MEAT AND B READ MANY TIMES IN COLD WEATHER. AFTER DE DAY'S WORK IN DE FIELDS WAS OVER WE H AD A TASK OF PICKIN' DE SEED FROM COTTON TILL WE HAD TWO OUNCES OF LINT OR SPIN TWO OUNCES OF COTTON ON A SPINNIN' WHEEL. I SPUN COTTON ON A SPINNIN' WHEEL. DATS DE WAY PEOPLE GOT CLOTHES IN SLAVERY TIME. I CAN'T READ AND WRITE BUT DEY LEARNED US TO COUNT. DEY LEARNED US TO COUN T DIS WAY. OUGHT IS AN OUGHT, AND A FIGGER IS A FIGGER, ALL FOR DE WHITE MAN AN ' NOTHIN' FOR DE NIGGER. DEY SOLD SLAVES JUST LIKE PEOPLE SELL HOSSES NOW. I SAW A LOT OF SLAVES SO LD ON DE AUCTION BLOCK. DEY WOULD STRIP 'EM STARK NAKED. A NIGGER SCARRED UP O R WHALED AND WELTED UP WAS CONSIDERED A BAD NIGGER AND DID NOT BRING MUCH. IF H IS BODY WAS NOT SCARRED HE BROUGHT A GOOD PRICE. I SAW A LOT OF SLAVES WHIPPED AND I WAS WHIPPED MYSELF. DEY WHIPPED ME WITH DE CAT O' NINE TAILS. IT HAD NIN E LASHES ON IT. SOME OF DE SLAVES WAS WHIPPED WID A COBBIN PADDLE. DE HAD FORT Y HOLE IN 'EM AND WHEN YOU WAS BUCKLED TO A BARREL DEY HIT YOUR NAKED FLESH WITH DE PADDLE AND EVERYWHERE DERE WAS A HOLE IN DE PADDLE IT DRAWED A BLISTER. WHE N DE WHIPPIN' WITH DE PADDLE WAS OVER, DEY TOOK A CAT O' NINE TAILS AND BUSTED DE BLISTERS. BY DIS TIME DE BLOOD SOMETIMES WOULD BE RUNNIN' DOWN DEIR HEELS. DEN DE NEXT THING WAS A WASH IN SALT WATER STRONG ENOUGH TO HOLD UP AN EGG. SL AVES WAS PUNISHED DAT WAY FOR RUNNIN' AWAY AND SUCH. 9 F8>OU6WAS OUT WITHOUT A PASS DEY WOULD SURE GET YOU. DE PATTERROLLERS SUR E LOOKED AFTER YOU. DEY WOULD COME TO DE HOUSE AT NIGHT TO SEE WHO WAS THERE. IF YOU WAS OUT OF PLACE, THEY WOULD WEAR YOU OUT. SAM JOYNER, A SLAVE, BELONGED TO MARSTER. HE WAS RUNNIN' FROM DE PATTERROL LERS, AND HE FELL IN A OLE WELL. DE PATTERRO,LER WENT AFTER MARSTER. MARSTER T OLD 'EM TO GET OLE SAM OUT AND WHIP HUM JUST AS MUCH AS DEY WANTED TO. DEY GOT HIM OUT OF THE WELL AND HE WAS ALL WET AND MUDDY. SAM BEGAN TAKIN' OFF HIS SHO ES, DEN HE TOOK OFF HIS PANTS AND GOT IN HIS SHIRTTAIL MARSTER, HE SAY, WHAT YOU TAKIN' OFF YOUB CLOTHES FOR, SAM? SAM, HE SAY, MARSTER, YOU KNOW YOU ALL CA N'T WHIP DIS NIGGER RIGHT OVER ALL DESE WET CLOTHES. DEN SAM LIT OUT. HE RUN SO FAST HE NEARLY FLEW. DE PATTERROLLERS GOT ON DEIR HOSSES AND RUN HIM BUT DEY COULD NOT KETCH HIM. HE GOT AWAY. MARSTER GOT SAM'S CLOTHES AND CARRIED 'EM T O DE HOUSE. SAM SLIPPED UP NEXT MORNING, PUT HIS CLOTHES ON, AND MARSTER SAID N O MORE ABOUT IT. I WAS A GREAT BIG BOY WHEN DE YANKEES COME THROUGH. I WAS DRIVIN' A TWO MU LE TEAM AND DOIN' OTHER WORK ON DE FARM. I DROVE A TWO HOSS WAGON WHEN DEY CARR IED SLAVES TO MARKET. I WENT TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT PLACES. MY MARSTER WAS A PREACHER, BILLY BOONE. HE SOLD AND BOUGHT NIGGERS. HE HAD FIFTY OR MORE. HE WORKED THE GROWN NIGGERS IN TWO SQUADS. MY FATHER WAS NAMED ISHAM AND MY MOTHER WAS SARAH BOONE. MARSTER BOONE WHIPPED WITH DE COBBIN PADD LE AND DE CAT O' NINE TAILS AND USED THE SALT BATH AND DAT WAS 'NOUGH. PLENTY B ESIDES HIM WHIPPED DAT WAY. MARSTER HAD ONE SON, NAMED SOLOMON, AND TWO GIRLS, ELSIE AND ALICE. MY MOT HER HAD FOUR CHILDREN, THREE BOYS AND ONE GIRL. THE BOYS WERE NAMED SAM, WALTER AND ANDREW, DATS ME, AND DE GIRL WAS CHERRY. MY FATHER HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN, 'CAUSE HE HAD SEVERAL WOMEN BESIDES MOTHER. MOLLIE AND LIL A LASSITER, TWO SISTERS, WERE ALSO HIS WOMEN. DESE WOMEN WAS G IVEN TO HIM AND NO OTHER MAN WAS ALLOWED TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH 'EM. MOLLI E AND LILA BOTH HAD CHILLENS BY HIM. DERE NAMES WUS JIM, MOLLIE, LIZA, ROSA, PE TE, AND I CAN'T REMEMBER NO MORE OF 'EM. DE YANKEES TOOK JUST WHAT DEY WANTED AND NOTHIN' STOPPED 'EM. 'CAUSE DE SU RRENDER HAD COME. BEFORE DE SURRENDER DE SLAVE OWNERS BEGUN TO SCATTER DE SLAVE S ABOUT FROM PLACE TO PLACE TO KEEP THE YANKEES FROM GETTIN' 'EM. IF DE YANKEES TOOK A PLACE DE SLAVES NEARBY WAS MOVED TO A PLACE FURTHER OFF. ALL I DONE WAS FOR THE DE REBELS. I WAS WITH 'EM AND I JUST DONE WHAT I WA S TOLD. I WAS AFRAID OF DE YANKEES CAUSE DE REBELS HAD TOLD US DAT DE YANKEES W OULD KILL US. DEY TOLD US DAT DE YANKEES WOULD BORE HOLES IN OUR SHOULDERS AND WORK US TO CARTS. DEY TOLD US WE WOULD BE TREATED A LOT WORSER DEN DEY WAS TREA TING US. WELL, DE YANKEES GOT HERE BUT THEY TREATED US FINE. DEN A STORY WENT 'ROUN AND 'ROUND DAT DE MARSTER WOULD HAVE TO GIVE DE SLAVES A MULE AND A YEAR'S PROVISIONS AND SOME LAND, ABOUT FORTY ACRES. BUT DAT WAS NOT SO. DEY NEVER DID GIVE US ANYTHING. WHEN DE WAR ENDED AND WE WAS TOLD WE WAS FREE, WE STAYED ON WITH MARSTER 'CAUSE WE HAD NOTHIN' AND NOWHERE TO GO. WE MOVED ABOUT FROM FARM TO FARM. MOTHER DIED AND FATHER MARRIED MARIA EDW ARDS AFTER DE SURRENDER. HE DID NOT LIVE WITH ANY OF HIS OTHER SLAVE WIVES DAT I KNOWS OF. 9I8HAVE WORKED AS A8HAND ON DE FARM MOST OF DE TIME SINCE DE SURRENDER AND DADDY WORKED MOST OF DE TIME AS A HAND, BUT HE HAD GARDENS AND PATCHES MOST EVE RYWHERE HE WORKED. I WORKED IN HEW YORK CITY FOR FIFTEEN YEARS WITH CRAWFORD AN D BANHAY IN DE SHOW BUSINESS. I ADVERTISED FOR 'EM. I DRESSED IN A WHITE SUIT, WHITE SHIRT, AND WHITE STRAW HAT, AND WORE TAN SHOES. I HAD TO BE A PURTY BOY. I HAD TO HAVE MY SHOES SHINED TWICE A DAY. I LIVED AT 18 MANILLA LANE, NEW YO RK CITY. IT IS BETWEEN MCDOUGALL STREET AND SIXTH AVENUE. I MARRIED CLARA TAYL OR IN NEW YORK CITY. WE HAD TWO CHILDREN. THE OLDEST ONE LIVES IN NEW YORK. T HE OTHER DIED AND IS BURIED IN RALEIGH.