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	wFreedcm was something mysterious. Co1~red folks didn‘t talk it. White folks didiit t talk it • The first I realized something different, Master Stone was going to whip a older • brother. He told mama something I was too small to know, She said, ‘Don‘t leave this year, son. I‘m going to leave.‘ Master didn‘t whip him.

	“Ma8ter Stone ‚ s oou8in kept house for him. I remember her well • They were all very nice to us always. He had a large fana. He had twenty servants in his yard. We all lived there closetogether. My sister and marna oooked~ We had pleùty to eat. We had beer In spring and eun~r.

Mutton and kid on special occas ion8 • We had ~ hog in the taU and winter. We had geese, ducks, and chickens. We had them when we needed them. We had a field garden. He rai8ed corn, wheat, oats, rye, and tobacco.

	ROnce a year we ~ot dreseed up. We got shirts ‚ a suit ‚ pante and shoes,

and what else we needed to wear. Then he told them to take care of their clothes • They got plenty to do a year. We didn‘ t have tine clothe8 no time, We didn‘t eat hein and chicken. I never seen biecuit-~only scme~ times.

	“I seen a woman sold. They had on her a ~ short dress ‚ no sleeves, so they could see her muscles, I reckon. They would buy them and ~it them with good healthy men to raise young slaves0 I heard that. I was very ~neU when I seen that young wcinan sold and years later I heard that was what was
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	“I don‘t know when freedczn come on.. I never did know. We was five or six years breaking up. Master Stone never forced any ot us to leave. He give SŒD.9 of them a horse when they left. I cried a year to go back. It was a dear place to me end the memories linger with me every day.