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	“When Henry git back Mr. Harvey say, ‘Henry, where your sack? And how come you am‘ t pickin‘ cotton atid runnin‘ off like ‘ Henry say he done burnt he sack up, Wid dat Mr. Harvey lit in to him like a bear, lashin‘ him right and left. Henry broke en run • den to de cook house where he maiimy~ tAunt Mary‘, was, enMr. Harvey right after him wid a heavy stick of wood dat he picked up often de yard, Mr. Harvey got Henry cornered in de house and near ‘bout beat dat nigger to death. In fact, Mr. Harvey, he really think too dat he done kilt Henry ‘cause he called ‘Uncle Nat‘ en said, ‘Nat, go git some boards en make er coffin Thr di8 nigger what I done kilt.‘

	“~t Henry wasn‘t daid though he was beat up terrible en they put him in de sick house • For days en days ‘Uncle Wsrner‘ had. to ‚ tend to him, exil wash he wounds ‚ en pick de maggots outen his sores. 1~t was ‘ de way dat Mt‘. Harvey Brown treated de niggers every tiii~ he git a chanet. He would evex~ lash en beat de wiunnens~

	“01e mars had a right good size house in dar ‘mongat de quarters where dey kept all de babies en right young chillun whilst dey mez~vnies workin‘ in de fields pickin‘ en hoein‘ tine. Old ‘Aunt Hannah‘, an old grannywonian. ‚ . she ‚ tend to all dem chillun. De chillun‘ a inennies, dey would come in from de fields about three times er day to let de babies suck. 1~re was er young nigger woman nau~ Iessie what had a young baby. One day when ~eaaie oo~ to de house to let dat baby suck, Mr. Harvey think she gone little too long. He give her a hard lashin‘.

	“01e mars had a big cook house on de plantat Ion right back in behind he own house en twix his house en de nigger‘ a q~uarters. ~t was where all de cookin‘ done for all de niggers on de entire place. Aunt Mary, she de head cook for de n~.ra en all ot de niggers too. All of de field hands dunn‘ crop time et dey breakfast en dey dinners in de field. I waited on de table