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	But they did take them &v~ay from their b8bies, I i~emember my grandmother telling about it. The wagon would drive down into the field and pick up a woman. Then somebody would meet her at the gate and sbe would nurse her baby for the last time. Then she‘d have to go on. Leastwise, if they hadn‘t sold her baby toot

	It was pretty awful. But I don‘t hold no ~‘ud~e against anybody. White or black, there‘s good folks in all kinds. I don‘t hold. nothina against nobody. The good Lord knows what he is about. Most of the time it was just fine on any 1~ioodfork place. Master had so many places he couldn‘t be at tern all. VIe lived down on the border ‚ on the Arkansas~Louisiana line sort of joining to Grand Lake. Master was up at Nashville, Tcrmessee. Most of the time the overseers was good to US.

	But it• wasn‘t that way on all the plantations. on the next one they was mean. Vlhy you could heer the sound of the strap for two blocks. No there wasn‘t any blocks. But you could hear it that fer. The “nig~ah drivah“ would stand and hit them with a wide strap. The overseer would stand off and split the blisters v:ith a bull whip. Some they whipped sO hard they had to carry them in. J~ust once did anybody on the Woodfork place ~et whipped that way.