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RI uaed to study my 1e88o31. I turned th• whole c1a88 dom onc. It

wa~ a. class in • splling. I. tUrflfd the claie dom on ‘Publication‘ —p-u—b-

1-i—c—a—t—i-o-n.	Th.y couldn‘ t apel]. that. But I‘ll. tell the world they could apell it the n•xt day.

	“My teacher had a great big crocua sack, and ehen she got tired of whipping them, she would ~it them in the eack. ~ie never did put ~ in that sack one tUe. I got a whipping moe‘ every day~ I uad to tight, and when I wasn‘t fightin‘ for myself, I‘d b. fighting for other childrn that would be seared to tight for theireelv•s, and I‘d do their fighting for them.

	~That whippin‘ in your hand 18 the worst thing you ever got. Brother,

hurts. I :i*Lt a teacher in jail that‘d whip one of my children in th•
	Occupational Hiatory and Iemily	~

	“My ~ aaid I was six yeara old when the War ended end that I wae born on the first day of October. Diring the Jar, I run up end down the yard and played, and run up end dom the atreet and played; end when I would make too much noise ‚ they‘ d whip me and eend m back to my mother and tell her not to whip ~ no more, because they had already done it. I would help look after my mother‘ e children. There were five children younger than I waa. Everywhere she wsnt, the white people wouid want me to nuree their children, because thsy eald, ‘That little rawboneded on ii goin‘ to be the emarteat one you got. I want h.r. ‚ And my ma would asy:

	w ‘You ain‘t goin‘ to git ‘er.‘ ~e had two other girl.~~Martha and Sarah. Thsy waa older than ‚ and she would hire them out to do nursing.

They work.d for their master during slave tim., and they worked for money eiter slavery.