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B• never would run away frog Miss Buaan. She ~aa good to hia ill she got	S that old nigger beatsr.s~Pbipp.. Rsr huabend, Reed, was called a niggsr spoiler. My father wets en old man when ?hippe wae an overeeer and waan‘t able to tight ich then.

	“Pliippa mire was a bad men, Ha waan‘t so bad neither; but the niggers waa soared of him. You Iaio~ In slave ttit~s, sosietimee ih•n a master would git too bad, the nigger~ would kil]. hiin—.tole him off out in the woods somewherea and git rid of him. Two or three of them would git together and aohen~ it out ‚ and then two or thre of them would git him way out and kill ‚ 1m. • Rit they didn‘t nobody ever pill nothin‘ like that on

Phippa. They was acared of him.

	wOns tii~ I saw the Yenkeei a long way off. They had on blue

uniforme and waa on coal black horesa. I‘ hollered oet ‚ ‚ Cb, I ese ac~~ thin‘.‘ My mlatras said, ‘What?‘ I told her, and ehe aald, ‘Them‘s the Tankee8.‘ ~ie went on in the house and I went with her. She sacked up all the valuablea in the houe • She said, ‘Hers ‚ ‚ and ehe threw a sack of silver on me that was so heavy that I went right on down to the ground.

Then ehe took hold of it and hoip me up and hoip me carry it out. I carried it out and hid it. She bAd three bdokskin sacka~‘all full of allvr. That wasn‘t now; that was in alavez,y ti~s. D‘xing the War, J~eff :E~vli gave out Confederate money. It died out on the folks‘ hands. Ab~t tisl~e hundred dollars of lt died out on my father‘ a hands. ~it ther wasn‘t nothin‘ ~t gold and silver in them sacke~

	•1 heard them till the slaves they were free. A n~an nau~d Captain Barkue who had his arm off at the elbow called for the three near..by plantations to meet at our place. Then he got up on a platform with another man beside him and declared peace and frsedo~. H. p‘ inted to a color.d men