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Were free, that they ãjã~Th‘t be1on~ to him any more, that A~raham tlnco:bn had aet them free. Of course, I didr(~t know what freedom was. They brought the news to them one evening,and them ~igger3 danced nearly all night.

	I remember also 8eelng a ru~~wa~lave. Ne ~aw the slaves first, and the dogs came behind cha8ing them. They passed through our field about half an hour ahead of the hounds, but the dogs would be trailing them. The hunters didn‘t bother to atop and questiOn US because they~cnew the hounds were on the trail. I have
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known slaves to run away and stay three years/at a time. Master
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w ould whip them and they would run away . They ~ would n t t have no

place to ~o or stay so they would corne back after a while. Then they would be punished again. They iivoulfn‘t punish them much, however, because they might run off again.

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	If I went on a plantation and saw a girl I wanted~t~ marry,

I would ask my master to buy her for me. It wouidTh“~t matter if she were somebody else‘s wife; she would become mine. The mas~ ter w3uld pay for her and bring her home and say, “john, there‘s your wife. That is all the marriage there would be. Yellow women useL~ tO be a novelty.then. You wouiCii~‘t see one-tenth as many then as nowl In some cases, however, a man would retain his wife
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