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and she come runnin‘ • I was under the house by that t line but she called me out and whipped me and told me to get back in the house. I know I didn‘t turn it over no more ~

	“The Yankees never said nothin‘ to xne-~-talked to my mother though, and oldmis‘.

	“They said they was fi~itin‘ to free the niggers. There was a boy on the place and while old master was gone to war, he‘d just go and come and get the news. He didn‘t do that when old master was home. I know he brought the news when peace declared, Patrollers got him one night.

	sI ‘member when peace declared ever‘body went around shoutin‘ and

	it ‚ ‚ The niggers I s ‚ the niggers is free Z‘

	“Oui‘ folks stayed there on the place right smart while after freedom, I ‘rriember I was gwine out to the field and Woodson, he was the baby I up— set, he wanted to go along and wanted me to tote him and I know old master said, ‘Put him down and let him walk.‘

	“They told rae I was twenty when I was married--the white folks told. me. I know my mother asked how old I was and they said I was ‘bout twenty. I ‘member it well enough.

	“I never went to school but I knowed my ~BC ‚ s and could read some in the first reader. I ain‘t forgot about it. I thinks about it sometimes,

	“The bigge at work I has done is tarin work.

	“I‘ve had nine chiliun and raised all of ‘ein but one.R