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in the nation, I never would have been a slave, and I wouldn‘t need to be beatixi‘ around here trying to get just brčad and meat.

	“After freedom, she taken her mother‘ a name by her free husband, Gillespie, and she made her husband take lt too. That hoi T got the na~ of Gillespie. ~

Oc~p~tlOfl of Forefathers O •

	“After they were made slaves, my grandmother cooked and x~ mother waited table and worked as a hOuse girl. My graiidma used to make clothes too, and she could work on one of these big looms.


Patroilsra

	“My ~ mother told me that . ihen the boys mould go out to a tance ‚ they would tie a rope across the road to make the horses of the patrollers
stumble and give the dancers time to get away.	• &meti?n~a the horses‘ legs
would be broken.	O


.	~‘, s Occupation O

	“I wants to mork and can‘ t get work; so they am‘ t no use to worry. I used. to cook. That is all I did for a living. I cooked as long as I could get something for it • I can ‚ t get a pension.


Slave Houses O

n ~ didri‘ t see no log houses ~en I vowed up. ~verything was fr~,


Right After the lar

	“Bight after the lax, my mother stayed around the house and continu~ed to work for her master. I don‘ t knov what they paid. her. I an‘ t remember just how they got free but I think the soldiers gave ‘em the notification.