“My mother’s masters used to tie her down before the dairy door and have two men beat her. She has told me that they used to beat her till the blood ran down on the bricks. Some white people in slavery times was good to the niggers. But those were mean, that’s the reason I ain’t got no use for white folks. I’m glad I was not old in that time. I sure would have killed anybody that treated me that way. I don’t know that my father’s people beat him up. I think his people were kinder and sorter humored him because he was so small.” Eliza Hays, Ex-Slave, 2215 W. Twentieth Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 77 or more at time of interview
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 12:34:00 +0000
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