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Isaac Slaughter (colored)
Bridgeport, Alabama

Jennie Sue Williams
Bridgeport, Alabama

[handwritten in top right corner] AL-85
Fair.
that's all. EC.
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ISAAC SLAUGHTER

Isaac Slaughter said: "I wuz borned on March 15, 1845 in
Greensboro, Georgia, the slave of John I. Slaughter. This is
what my sister, Dosha, says in the family Bible. Sister Dosha,
she lives in Dadeville, Alabama, and she is one and one-half
years older than me. I wuz on Flint River in Georgia during the
Civil War, and lawse, de sights I did see! I seed men and hawses
laying all around me dead, and I wuz scared jest 'bout half to
death."

"Now, papa, be careful what you tell, you know yo' don't want
to be tellin' things what ain't true." admonished his daughter,
Tura. With this Slaughter hushed his war tales.

"Well, we moved to Dadeville, Alabama, from Georgia with de
Slaughters, and dey's a place called Slaughter's Crossing there now,
I [strike through] reclaims [end strike through] recollects, and my sister, Dosha, she still lives there. I's got
two sisters and two brothers living yet, I [strike through] reclaim [end strike through] reckon. Haven't heard
from them in a long time but I [strike through] reclaim [end strike through] recollect as how some of the folks
would have writ if they wuz any of them dead. My sister, Sophia,
lives in Birmingham but lawse have mercy me, child, I haven't seed
her in a long, long time."

"Well, Slaughter, where did you come from when you moved here?"

"I's done moved here from Fort Payne, Alabama in 1891. I's
worked on de railroad when I's over in Fort Payne. I's worked at
de ice plant when I's first come here, and den I done started to
butchering for Mr. Ciders. I'se lived at de slaughter pen and
raised sheep, pigs and cattle for Mr. Ciders to kill. Don't guess
you remember Mr. Ciders but you daddy do. Den I'se butchered for

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