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w old mistress said she would whip as. Thrb she didn‘t, ~h.n w. g~ to ~ mothà‘ s, ~ I said, ‘Raw old is I?~ She said, ITou are sixbeen.‘ She didn‘t sa~• 31~~ubbß1 she didII~t sey y.arB, she didn‘t s.~j weeks~ she didn‘t ss~r dayeg she just aaid~ ‘You are sixteen.1 And n~ oase uorker told me that ~de me ninety yes~s old~.

	“I was tu E~npstead Couxrby on ~rm Bisho~~s plan~atioz~ Tb ~e J~.ss Pol3~ Karmon‘s wife, that told a. I was tree, and give me ~r ags.

	ni ~uow freedcm so~ before i865~ because n~‘ brothers would t,ll me be ecm~e hŒD~o frCIt Nashville whore I would b. ssnb to do rnzrsing b~r ~ old ais..

tress and ~ster too to mine for ~r yotng mi~bress.	. ~ -

	. ~ ~ old terz ~ props~ i~. di~j4.d, I~ don‘t ~ i~~y‘.~-hO ~asaa‘t dead nor flOt~1~tiu*i fell to ii.. ~vsi~n bvb I stq.d 5it ~ahvill. iorkt~g fOr Ii.. Je2mie N.lsœi, one of Raii~n‘ s dang)rb.rs. Miss J.~mie uae iq yo~g mistress. • W brothsrs were already fr.s. I don‘t brow h~r Misa Pol3~ o~ to tell me 3~ sas free. Btd~ n~ brothers would iso me and tell me to rw~ a~ and ocmte on hcme and they would protoct ms but I sas Afraid to try ib. FiVaI3y Ilias Pol3~r found tIM ehe couldn‘t keep me a~ longer and she o~ an4 told me I was free. Birb I thought that abs was fooling me and ju,b wanted to sell me to the speculators.



	n~ mether ‘was the mother of tvnty ohildrea~ and I am the mother of eighbeœi. W ïoun~.at ii forby-fivs. 3: don‘t ~ wbether ..~ of ~ ~~tIier‘ e ohilth‘œi; te liviiag ~ or not. I l.ft the,a that didn‘t 3oiz the militia in 1IU~EbSI4 Ootmby fifty-seven y~rs ago. Thea that joined tba. militia wsnb off~ I don‘t knw nothin‘ about them. I bave two girl. 1iviz~g. that I ~ aboa~~ E had two boys w~ub to Franos end I n«ver heard nOtbin‘