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	“I seen people sell babies out of the cradle. Poor white people buy babies ~ind raise them,

	“The Battles had gins arid stores in North Carolina and Williems had farms, nothing but farms.

	¶~1ien I was a ~irl I nursed the nigger warnen‘s babies and seen after the chIldren. I nursed Tom Williamst boy, IohnnyWilliams. He run to me, said ‚ ‚ Them killed my pape. • ‚ I took him up in my arms • Then was when the Yankee soldiers come on the place. Sid Williams went to war. I cooked when the regalar cook was weaving. Mother carded and- spun then. I had a ounce of cotton to card every night from September till March. ~ien I‘d be dancing around, ~tiss Heiland harris ~illiarris say, ‘You better be studying

:Tour pewter days. t Meant for me to stop dancing.

	“Mistress Polly married a Perry, then Right Hendrick. Perrys was rich folks. When Larrnaduke Battle died all the riggers cried and cried arid bellowed because they thought they would be sold and. get a mean master.

	“They had a mean master right then-~.Ri~ht Hendrick. Mean a maxi as ever God ever wattled a ~ut in I reckon. That was in Mississippi. They took us back and forth when it suited them. We went in hacks, surreys arid stagecoaches, wagons, horseback, and all sorts er ways. We went on big river boats sometimes. They sold off a lot of riggers to settle up the estate.

•Jhat Ď want to know is how they settle up estates now.

	.	“They parched persimmon seed and wheat during the war to make coffee. I ploughed during the Civil War. Strange people come through, took our 3nuff and tobacco. Master Tom said. for us not have no light at night so the robbers couldn‘t find us so easy. He was a good man. The Yankees said they had to subdue our country. They took everything they could find, Times was hard. That was in. North Carolina.