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	“My mars, he didn‘t go to de War but he sure sent er lot er corn en he sent erbout three hundred head er big, fat hogs one time dat I ‘members, Den too, he sent somepin like twenty er thirty niggers to de Confedrites in Georgia. I ‘members it well de time dat he sent dem niggers, They was all young uns, ‘bout grown, en. dey was skeered to death to be leavin‘ en goin‘ to de War, I~y didn‘t know en cose but what dey gwine make ‘em fight, ~xt mars tole ‚ em dat dey jus‘ gwine to work diggin‘ trenches en sich; but dey didn‘t want to go nohow en Yeff an‘ Randall, they runned off en come back home all de way from Georgia en mars let ‘em stay.

	“Boss, you has heered me tellin‘ dat my mars was er good, kine man en dat his overseer, Mr. Harvey Brown, was terrible cruel, en mean, en would beat de niggers up every chance he git ‚ en you ask me how come it was dat de mars would have sich a mean man er working for him. Now I‘ se gwine to tell you de reason, You know de truth is de light, boss, an‘ dis is de truth what I‘se gwlne to say. Mars, he in love with Mr. Harvey Brown‘s wife, Miss Mary, and Miss Mary‘s young daughter, she was mars‘ chile. Yas euh, she was dat, She wasn‘t no kin er tall to Mr. Harvey BrOwn. Her name was Miss Markis, dats what ft was, Mars had done willed dat chile er big part of his property and a whole gang of niggers. He was gwine give her Tolliver, Beekey, Ai.uit Mary, Austin, an‘ Savannah en er heap more ‘sides dat, D.it de War, it coins on en broke mars up, en all de darkies sot tree, en atter dat, so I heered Mr. Harvey Brown en Miss Mary, and de young lady Miss Markie, dey moved up North some place en I am‘ t never heered no more from dein.

	“Mr. Clarke and Mrs. Clarke what de town ot Clarksdale is named for, dey lived not far from our place. I knowed dem well. Albert, one of mars‘ darkie s, married Cindy, one of Mr. Clarke ‚ s women. General Forrest ‚ I know you is heered of him. I speck he ‚ bout de bes ‚ general in de War,