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lhsn th.y cc~ along they try to gst ths colored aen to go With them and that‘i the ~y they got tr.atsd. 1 didn‘t know where anybody was iiade to stay on sttsr‘ tba war. Thsy was lucky it they had a piao. to stay at.

There iaen‘t anything to do with if they stayed. Timsa wae awful unaittled for a long tias. Peopl. whut wsnt to ths oitis8 di,d. I don‘t know thsy caught diseases and changing th. ways of eatin‘ and Livin‘ I

•1•u whut don• it. Th.y died mighty fast for awhile. I ~owsd sc~ of them and I heard ‘em talking.

	•That psriod attsz‘ the wer wae a hard tim. It eho was hard•x than the dsprssaion. It lasted s long tim. bike got a lots now b.sides what they i‘tt up with then. 8s~sd liks thsy thought if they ha frss they nv•r hav• no work to do sud jesa have plinty to sat and wsar. They . found it diffsrent and when it was cold th.y had no wood liks they bsn used to. I don‘t believs in th colored race bsing slaves canas of ths color but the war didn‘t asks tim. aich bitter for a long time. 8o~
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of thum had a worss tii~. So ny soon got sick and‘ disd. They died of

Consumption and fsvers and nearly fross. Scias nsar ‚ bout starved. TM

colored folks just scattsrsd ‚ bout huntin‘ work after thi war.

	•1 hssrd of thi Ku Klux but I nvir s~n one.

	1 nevsr voted. I don‘t b.li.v. in it.

	•1 ns~sr heard of any uprisings. I don‘t know nobody in that rebal~ lion (Nat Turner).

.1	used to sing to ~y ohiidrin end in th. field.

	Iliv.donth.fs~tiUIscs.to~dsughtsrstoliv. Ilik.it bettsr than in town. Ii hsm.stead.d a place at ~unfisld (Zint) and my sistsr bought it. Ni barsly asds a living and nsvsr had ~ny to lay up.