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She showed the nigger women how to 8~W, ~A11 the women on the place

could card and spin. They set around and do. that vthen too bad weather to be on the ground. They show‘ didn‘t teach them to read. They whoop you 1f they see you have a book. If they see you gang round talkin, they say they talkin bout freedom or equalization. They scatter you
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	When they sell you, they take you oft. . See drove pass the house, Men be ridin vdd long whips o±~ cow hide wove together and the dogs. The slaves be walkin, somecryin cause they left their folks. They make eta stand in a row sometimes and sometimes they put em up on ~ high place and auction era,. ~

The pore white folks whut not able to bu~r hands had to work their ~own land. There shorewas a heap of white folks what had no slavea.

Some ob dem say theys glad the nig~jers ‘got turnèd loose, maybe they could get them to work for them sometimes cnd pay era.

	When you ~o to be sold you have to say what. thej tell you to say. When a i1~)afl be unruly they sell him to ~et rid o~ him heap of tirae8. They call it sellin ni~€er meat. 1~o use tryin iun off they catch you an brin~ you back.

	I don‘t know that there v~as ever a thought made bout freedom till they vas fi~htin. Said thet was v;hat it was about. That was a white mans ~var cept they stuck a i~ew ni~ers in front ob the Yankee lines. And some ob the men carried off some iaan or boy to ~~ait on hira. He so

I used to bein waited on. I ain‘t takin sides wid neither one o~ dem I tell you.