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	“They didn.‘ t have anyth~~g but homemade turnitur ~ We never had no bed bought frcm the atore~nothin‘ like that. We j~iat had ac~thing stioking againat ~ the wall • It wae ~ilt in a corner iith one post out • They iiiads their table and used benohsa-..two4eggad end aoiaetlmea four~le~ged. ~he two-legged benches was a long bench with a wide plank at each end for lege.

	~Por food we got just what the white folk8 got. We didn‘t have no quartera. They didn‘t have enough hands for that. They raised their own meat. They had about seven or eight. There was ~n, Teas, Bill, Steve. They bought Bill and Steve tro~i Kentucky.

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“Old free J‘ack J~enkina, a colored man, aold them two men to ol‘ z~aater.
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J~enkina was the only Neço a~.av~e trade1~ I ever Icuowed. He brought thei~ down one evening and the old man was a ~ long time trading. He made theia run and jump and do everything before he would buy them. He paid one thouaath five hundred dollars tor each one of them. ‘Free Jack‘ made him p~y~ it part in ailver and acme in gold. He took ao~ Confederate paper. It wac circulating then. ~it he uldn‘ t take much of that paper money.

	91e stole those boys from their parents in Kentucky. The boys said he tooled them away from their homes with candy. Their parents didn‘t know where they were.

	“Then there were my brothers~i.t~ of them, John Alexander and William Hamilton. They were half.brothers. That makes six x~n altogether on the place • I might have made a miscount • There was old man Wash Pearson and his two boys ‚ J‘oe end Nathan. That made ten parsons with myself.

	*Brumbau.gh didn‘t have such a large family. I never did know how large

it was.