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Her folks slashed their nig~erc and she tried to make him do that too, Ee wouldn‘t. They said she wore the breeches t cause she ruled h~n.

	“She was Mistress He]iand B~arris Williams. She took our big hogs avv~y frœa evexy one of us. We raised ‚ em up fine big hogs. She took thoen away froen us. Took all the hogs Master Torn give us back. She had pleiit;y land he left her and cmvs, sœae hogs. She xnarri.ed Allen Hopkins. They had a boy. He sent him to Te~œ.s, then he left her, She was so mean. Followed the boy to Texas. The~r a].]. said she couldn‘t rule AUen Hopkins like she did Tœa Williams. She didutt.

	“~h~i freedcœi oœie on, mother and me both left her tcause I seen she wouldn‘t do. 1t~r papa left too and he had raised a little half white boy.

‘Cause he was same age of Brutten Wi11ia~aa, Tcza took Brutten‘ ~ little nigger

child and give libi to papa to raise. His rmme Wilks. His ov~ii black mama beat hùa. When freedœa cœr~e on, we went to Cal Pieroe‘s place. They kept

Wilks. He used to run off and corne to us. They give him to somebody else

t ~way off. Torn had a brother in Georgia. It was Tœnt ~ wife wouldn‘ t let Wilks go oil living with us.

“Old nistress just did rave about her boys mixing up With theta niggera

but she was better than any other white wc~ien to WilkS and Fenna and George.

	‘t ‘Big Whit could do ~nuch as az~r two other niggera. V~hen thoy bougIr~

h~mn a axe, it was a great big axe. They bought hitti a great big hoe, They got a nevr overseer. Overseer said he use a hoe and axe like everybody else.

TBig Will? killed the overseer with his big axe, J~i Battle v~as gone off.

His son Mi~rmaduke Battle put hiw~ iii jail. vihen Jim Battle oomne back he said

Mar~naduke ought to sent for hini, not put hin in jail. Jim Battle sold ?Big

Will‘. We never heard or seen him no more. His family stayed on the plantation

and worked, ‘Big W~31~ could split as many more rails as anybody else on the place.