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He sure was a tine looking man en he wore a beard on he face ~ I~ general, he had a big plantation down der. in Coahoma County where he would coma ever so offen. A lot of times he would cone to our place en take dinner wid oie mars, en I would be er waitin‘ on de table er takin‘ dem de toddies on de front gallery where dey talkin‘ ‘bout dey bizness.

	“Boss, you axed u~ if dey was any sich thing in slavery times as de white men molestin‘ of de darky wimrnen. J~re was a heap of dat went on all de tiras an‘ ‘course de wiimi~ns, dey couldn‘t help deyselves and Jus‘ had to put tip wid it, I~ trouble wasn‘t trom de mars of de wirmnens I‘se ever knowed of but from de overseers en de outside white toiks, O~ course ail dat couldn‘t have been goi.n‘ on like lt did without de mars knowin‘ it, ]~y

	t bound to know dat it went on, but I‘ se never heered ‚ bout ‚ em dom ‚ nothin‘ to stop it. It jus‘ was dat way, en dey ‘lowed. it without tryin‘ to stop all sich stuff as dat. You know dat niggers is bad ‘bout talkin‘ t mongst demselves ‚ bout sich en s ich er goin‘ on, and some of mars‘ darkies, dey say dat Sam and Dick, what was two real light colored boys, dat us had was mars‘ chlllun0 1~t was all talk. I nebber did believe lt ‚ cause dey nebber even looked like mars en he nebber cared no more for dem dan any of the rest of de hands.“