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	If der was . anything to be knowed the white folks knowed it • The

. niggers get passes and visit round on Saturday evening or on Sünday jes IJ1O]2g8t theirselves and mOflg$t folks they knoweci at the other fams round.

.	When th~t war ~.as done Georgia was jes like bein~ at the bad place.

You, couldn‘ t stay in the house s fear some Ku Klux come shoot under yo

; door and burnst in. wid hatchets, Folk8 hide out in de woods mostly. ~ if

dey hear you. talkin they say you. talkin boutequalization. They whoop you. You eou.ld.n‘t be settin or standing talkin. They come and a$k you

what he been tell you. That Ku. Klux killed white men too. They say they

put eia ~xp to hold offices over thera.~ It was heap worse in Georgia ater

\	freedom than it was fore. I think the poor nigger have to suffer ft what

~ de white man put on hirn. ~ had. a hard. time. Some of em down there in ~Georgia what di~li~‘t ~et into the cities where tbey could get victuals and a few rags fo cold weather ~ot so pore out i~ the woods they nearly starved and died. out. I heard era talk bout how they died in piles. Niggers have to have meat to eat or he ~et v~eak. Thi,te folks didn‘ t have no meat, no flour, ~ ~

	The folks v~as after some people and I nui off and kept goin till I took up with some people. The white folks brought them to Tennessee Covin~ton ~ I cozue too. They come in wagons. ~y father, he ~ot shot and I never seed him no mo. He lived on another i~arm fo de wart I lived wid. thera white folks till bout nine ye~rsand I ~aarried. My oldman wanted to come to dis new country. Heard so much talk how fine it was. Then I had iij.n across m~y‘ brother. He followed‘nie. One brother was killed in the war somehow. My brother. liked L~Ieria~his an he stayed there. We come on. the train. I never did like no city.