Oliver Bell
Livingston, Alabama
“I’ll tell you the first thing I remember, and I don’t know what started it. One day my mammy done something, and old master made her pull her dress down round her waist and made her lay down across the floor. Then he taken a leather strap and whooped her. I remembers that I started crying and Mistus Beckie said, ‘Go get that boy a biscuit.’ “