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They wasn‘t so bad but I had to work harder. They never give me nothing. I aeen Mr. Spence twice after I left but he never seen me. If he did he never let on. I never seen his wire no more after I left her. I didn‘t see him f~or tour years after I ‚ then in three more years I seen him 1~t the hotel had burned.


Freedoni

	“Mr. Spence told me I was tree. I didn‘t leave. I didiL‘I have sense to know where to go. I didn‘t know what freedom was. So he went to the free mens‘ bureau and had me bound to him till I was twenty~.one years old.

He told me what he had done. lie was to clothe me, feed me, send me to

school so many months a year, give me a horse and bridle and saddle and one hundred fifty dollars ehen I was twenty-one years old. That would have been eight or nine years. Seemed too long a time to wait. I thought I could do better than that. I never done half that good. I never went to school a day in my life. I was sorry I run off after it was too late~

	“I heard too much talking at the hotel. They argued a whole heap more than they do now. They set around and talk about slavery and freedom and everything else. It made me rèstless arid I run off. I was ashamed to be seen much less go back. Folks used to have shame.


Ku Klux

	“In 1868 1 lived with J‘ohn Weleh one year. I seen the going out and cOEning in. I heard what they was doing. I wasu‘ t afraid of tham then. I lived with one of ‘em and I wasn‘t afraid of ‘em. I learned a good deal about it. They called it uprising and I found out their purpose was to hold down the nigger. They said they wanted to make them submissive.