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	“There ~raz plenty whit e ~lks dat ~raz sho bad to de niggers ‚ and. specially dein overSeE~rS. L nigger whut lived on the plantation jinin~ ours shot and killed au overseer den he run 1way. He come to de river and seed. a white man on udder side an~ say ‚ ~ Come and git me • ‚ !ell ‚ when dey got him dey foimd out whut he ‚ 8. done, and ~riiz gwine to burn him ‘live. Jedge Clernents, the man dat keep law and. order, say :~e would-n‘ t burn a dog ‚ live ‚ so he lef * • ~ut dey sho burn. dat nigger ‚ live for I

seed him atter he wu.z burned. up.

	“Us ‚ ~ go to meetin‘ to de Ant loch Church some ~i.mdays .	1 ~ go t o de house and git a pass. When. us‘d. pass by the patterole, us jes‘ hold. up our pass and den us‘d.

go on. Dar wuz a ‚ idt 1 twixt de niggers and de white folks . De whi te preacher‘ cl.

-oreach; den de colored nian.~ Us‘ d. stay at church most aU day. When we dicin‘ go to church, us‘d gît together in the quarters and. have preachin‘ and. singin‘ amongst ourselves. ~

	“In cotton pickin‘ time us‘d. stay in de field. till way atter dark and. us‘d pick ‘~y candle light and. den carry hit arid. put hit on de scaffold. In de winter time ~is‘~ quilt; jes‘ go from one house to anudder in de quarter. Us‘d weave all our ever1 clay clothes but Marster Lucas‘d go to Mobile ever1 July and Christmas and gît ~ur Smiday clothes, gît us dresses and shoes and. we‘d sho be proud of 1em.0

	“In slavery time dey doctored de sick folks dif‘funt frum what dey does now.

I seed a man so sick dey had to put medicine down his tho‘at lak he ~iz a horse.

Dat mangotwellandsho livedto turnakeyindejail. Efltwaz indese days

~~at man would b e cay ‚ d t o de hospital and. cut oper~ lak a hawg. ‚~

	“Dere wuz a slave whut lived in Macon county~ He run ‘way and when he w‘az cotched &ey dug a hole in de ground and put him crost it and beat him nigh to
death,“	I



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