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	Aunt Amy paused as she worked. among the small plants ~ h~r ~rden, removing a weed here and there. ~he pushed back the sunbonnet that shaded her eyes and began:
	N1 was bawn on Governor Reuben Chapman‘s place five miles

north of Livingston on May 14, 1843.. My name is A~~~man. My mother was Clary Chapman an‘ my pappy was Bob Chapman. Dey both come from Virginny; my mammy from Petersburg an‘ my pappy t‘uxn Richniond, Dey was driv‘ down to Alabanly lak cattle an‘ Marse . Reuben bought ‘em. He had. a 1o‘~t of“siaves caze he had a heap of plantations, but hirn an‘ his wife stay most of de time in $un~tsviUe ~n‘ dey had a heap of white oberseers. I ha~ a plenty of ohiUuns b~t not as many as my mammy.

	7ho was my husban ‚ ? Law chile, I am ~ t never had no special

~ I even forgits who was de pappy of some of dese chilluns of mine. . ~

	“Us had a mean oberseer, an‘ since Marse Reuben warntt never ~t home, dem oberseers useter treat us somp‘n awful. One day ~~rse Reuben come hone an‘ wben he foun‘ out dat de oberseer was :~an to de slaves he commence to give him a lecture, but when Miss T~~erlicia tuk a han~~ in de business, she didn‘t stop at no lecture,

‘he toi‘ dat oberseer die: ~I hear you take my women an‘ turn ~.ere clothes ober dere haids an‘ whup ‘em. Any man date got a family ~n‘ would do sich a thing oughter be sham‘ of hisseif, an‘ iff en ~:ov, Chapman can‘t make you leave, I kin, so you see dat road. dere?