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whuppin‘ hisse‘f. He had. a big black boy name Moee, mean ae de debil an‘ 8tX~Oflg as a ox, and de obereeer let him do all de whuppin‘ . An ‚ ‚ man, he could shO ‚ lay on dat rawhide lash. He whupped a nigger gal ‘bout thirteen years oie so hard she nearly die, an ‚ allue atterwa‘ de she hab spell s of fi ta or 1 ~ Dat maJ~e Mares John pow‘ful mad, 80 he run dat oberseer off de place an~ Mose didii‘ do no mo‘ whuppin.

	N Same time JL~ree John buy mammy an‘ us boys, he buy a black. man name Joe. He a preacher an‘ de marster let de slaves buil‘ a bresh arbor in de pecan grove ober in de big pa8tur‘, an‘ when de wedder warn.‘t too cold. all de slaves was ‘lowed to meet dar on Sunday t fo‘ preachin‘ . .

	‘Yaseuli, oie Joe do purty good. I speck he had mo‘ ‘ligion dan some of de hifalutin‘ niggere ‘tendin‘ to preach nowadays. De
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white folks chu‘ cli, kU~t at Hope H~].l ober on de stage road, ~‚ sometimes dey fetch ‘dere preacher to de plantation to preach to de elave8. But dey druther heali Joe.

	‘Nawsuh, we d.idn‘ git no Behoolin‘ ‚ cep‘ in‘ befo‘ we got big ‘nough to wuk in de fiel‘ we go ‘long to school wid. de white eh.tllun to take care of ‘em. Dey show us pictures an‘ tel). us all dey kin, but it didn‘t ‘mount to much.

	N When de war started ‚ mo ~ all I know ‚ bout it was ail de white mens go to Montgomery an‘ jine de army. My brudder, he . ‘bout fifteen year oie, so he go ‘long wid. d~ ration wagon to Montgomery ‘moe‘ ebryweek. One day he come back from Montgomery an‘ he say, ‘Hell done broke loose in Gswgy.‘ He couldn‘t tell us much ‚ bout what done happen, but de slave s dey get all ‚ o~ted ‘caze dey clidn‘ know what to ‘epect. Purty soon we fin‘ out dat some of de big mens call a meetin‘ at de dapitol on Goat Hill in