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References
1(A) Mrs. Belle Butler -daughter-823 Worth Capital St.
2(B) Anna Pritchett -Federal Writer-1860 Kenim Ave.Belle Butler, the daughter of Chaney Mayer, tells of the hardships her mother endured during her days of alaway,
0(B)
(Page #2, Topic #240, Anna Pritchett)This, of course, hurt him so very bad he had to stop their punishments and never attempted to whip than again. He
1told them he would surely put them in his pocked (sell them) if they ever dared to try nothing like that again in life.
3(A)
Not so long after their fight, Chaney was given to a daughter of their master, and her sister was given to another daughter and taken to Passais County, N.G. (A) On the next farm to the Coffer farm, the overseers would tie the slaves to the joists by their thumbs, whip them
unmercifully, then salt their backs to make them very acre. (A)
When a slave slowed down on his corn hoeing, no matter if he were sick, or just very tired, he would get manylashes and a salted back. (A)One woman left the plantation without a pass. The overseer caught her and whipped her to death. (A)
The slave was over allowed to look at a book, for fear he might learn to read. One day the old mistress caught a slave bey with a book, she cursed him and asked him what he mount, and what he thought he could do with a book. She said he looked like a black dog with a breast pin on, and forbade him to ever look into a book again. (A)
All slaves on the Coffer plantation were treated in a most inhuman manner, scarcely having enough to eat, unless they would steel it, risking the risk of being enought and receiving a severe beating for the theft. (A)
Mrs. Butler lives with her daughter, has worked very hard in
"her days." (B)
She has had to give up almost everything in the last few years, because her eyesight has failed. However, she is very cheerful and enjoys telling the "tales" her mother would tell her. (B)
Submitted December 28, 1937
Indianapolis, Indiana
By:Anna Pritcibit
Field Writer
(Ex-Slave Stories 5th District, Vanderburgh County, Lauana Creel"
