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*we didn‘t ~e no r~1 hard time after ths war. We w•nt to

Osorgia to work on Arastrongi term. W. didn‘t stay there long. Is ient to Atlanta and m.t a toilez huntin‘ hands down at 8ardie, Mississippi. I. coi~ on there. Bob Richardson brought the family out here. I been here round Biaooe 58 year. *en it was eho nut swamps sud woods.

	‚ .1 don‘t think the Ku Klux ev.r got after any us but I assn am, I recksn. I don‘t know but mighty little. The paddyrollera is what I dreaded. Sometime the overseer was a paddyroller. My tolks didn‘t go to war. We didn‘t know what the war was Thr till it had been going on a year or so. The news got airoulated round ths North was fighting to give the black ~n freedcm. 8o~ of em thought they said that so theId follow and get in the lines, help out. Soete did go long, so~ didn‘t want to go get killed. Nobody never got mithin, didn‘t know much when it was freedom. I didn‘t ass ch difference for a year or mors. Is gradually quit gsttin~ provisions up at ths house end had to take a wagon and team and go b~y what we bad. We dldn ‚ t have near as ~ioh. Money then like it is now, it don‘t ~iy ~ch. It made on differnce. You could change places and work for differsnt ~n. They had ovsrssera just th. esme aa they did in slavery.

	“The Reconstruction time was like this. You go up to a man and tell him you and your family want to hire ter next year on his place.

He say I‘m broke, the war broke ~. Move down there in the best empty house you find. You can get your provisions furnished at certain little store in the closest town about. You say peser. When the crop ~d bout aU you got was a little money to take to give the man what run you