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My mother and father had six children~.five boys and one girl, All born atter freedom. There were three ahead ot me. The oldest was boni before the War, not afterward.

	“In my country where I was raised the Negroes weren‘t treed uhtil 1865. My uncle, Tim Shane-..that is the only name I ever knew him by..-, he ran away and come to this eountry and made money enough to come back and buy his freedœi0 ~uat about tine he got himself paid for, the War closed and he would have been freed anyway. The money oudn‘ t have done him no good any... how because it was all Confederate money, and when the War closed, that wasntt no good.

	“My father ran away when the War broke out. His master wanted to carry him to the army with him and he run off and stayed in the woods three years. He stayed until his little miatress wrote him a letter and told. him she would set him free it he would cc~ houie. He stayed out till the War closed. He wouldn‘t take no chances on it.

	~The pateroles mad.. my father do everything but q~uit. They got him about teaching night school. That was after slavery, but the paterolee still got after you. They didn‘t want him teaching the Negroes right after the War. He had opened a night school, and he was doing well. They just kept him in the woods then. •
	.	KuKlux

	~There was a bunch of Ku Klux that a colored man id. He was a fellow by the naine of Fount Howard. They would coxr~ to his house and he would call himself showing them how to catch old people he didn‘t like. He told them how to catch my old ~n. I have heard my mother tell about it tii~ie and ~ime again. The funny part of it was there was a cornfield right back of the kitchen,