'Lord God, here comes the devil.' Volume 3. True Stories of American Slave Encounters with the Ku Klux Klan - Free Kindle Book

'Lord God, here comes the devil.' Volume 3. True Stories of American Slave Encounters with the Ku Klux Klan
by Stephen Ashley and Federal Writers Project

True Stories of American Slave Encounters with the Ku Klux Klan.

"Yes'm, I seen the Yankees bout a year fore the war ceasted. They come to get somethin' to eat and anything else they could get. Got the mules and things and took my two brothers and put em in the war. One come back after surrender and the other one died in the war. They said they was fightin' to free the niggers from being under bondage.

"I seen the Ku Klux. Looked like their horses could fly. Made em jump a big high fence. They come and took my father and all the other men on the place and was goin' to put em in the Confederate army. But papa was old and he cried and old mistress thought a lot of him so they let him stay. I just lay down and hollered cause they was takin' my brothers, but they didn't keep em long. One of my brothers, six years older than me, come up here to Pine Bluff to jine the Yankees.

"We could hear the guns at Marks Mill.