Alabama
~84

right dar, an‘ tek off ~ hat; you sho‘ ‘s lookin‘ wèil, an‘ I‘se‘ proùd
	toseeyou.	~ ~. .

	NYaS, rna‘am, I sho‘ was borned in slavery tithes, an‘ 1 wish to G~awd I could git now what ~ useter hab den, tcaze dem was good times for de black folks. Dese free niggers don‘t know.what ~tiS to betuk good

~	keer Of~7~.


	“Co‘se I means dat! I was borneä. on a big plantation near ‘bout to L±nden ‚ ‘ my Oie Marster was name Harris ‚ yassum, Dj~k Harris ‚ an? my Ole Mi~ti~ was Mj88 Mandy. Bofe dey boys fit in de wah, ant I ‘members ~en dey went off wid. de sojers, ‚ole Mi~tiø she cry art‘ hug dem boys an‘ kiss ‘em goodbye, an‘ dey was gone a long time. I was a leetle gal whenst f de~,r went to de wah, an‘ I was mos‘ a grown ‘omar~ when dey come home, an‘ dey bofe had whiskers. Young Masse Rjch~rd he limpin‘ an‘ loOk mighty ~a1e ‚ an ‚ dey say he been wounded ‘ stay in ~i~s~n on Mister ~ohnson ‘s island, sumrriuz up de ribber; but Marge Willis, he look all right, Lcep~int v~higker8. Oie Marster had a big house, an‘ dat same house standin‘ dar

ri:f,ht now. Ug had plenty to eat art‘ plenty to wear, an‘ dat‘s mo‘n what
~	~
~~folks got now.

	11Ole I~arster was good to all he niggers, an‘ my papp~bofe belonged ‚to tim. Dey was a slave—yard in Urijontown, afli.. ev‘y time a spec‘later

•CU~n vrid a lot of newniggers5 Oie Marster he buy ‘four or five niggers, an‘ dat‘s how he come~buy my pappy, atter de spec‘iater brung him an‘ a VTho].e passel of niggers from North C‘lina. My mammy herej~aJready ‘long to Oie a~arster, her was born~d his‘n. ~
	;	a‘

	“Sometime a no ‘count nigger tek an‘ runned erway; but de ober~Se~~r, he put de houn~s on he track, an‘ dey rün hirn up a tree, an‘ de Oberseer fotch h~m back nex‘ mawnin‘, all tuckerediit, an‘ he glad to st~.:f home for a spell an‘ ‘have hese‘f. Oie Marster had a good oberseer, ~ too. ‘Cose he wan‘t no quality, lak Oie Marster an‘ 01e Misti~, but he