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~	“My mother said that they had bean waiting a bug time to hear what had become of the War, perhaps ofle or two we•ks~ One day when th.7 w~ in the field moulding corn, going round the corn hoeing it and ~nitting a little hill around it, the conk sounded at about eleven o‘clock, and thy • knew that the long expected time had cc~. They dropped their hoes and went to the big hous. They went around to the back where the master always met . the servants and he said to them, ‘You are all. free ‚ fr., as I am. You can go or come as you pleaae.• I want you to stay. If you will stay, I will give you half the crop.‘ That was the beginning of the share cropping system.

	“My mother came at once to the quartera, and when she found she pulled the end out of a corn sack, stuck holes on the sides, put a cord through the top ‚ pulled out the ~ end ‚ put it on me ‚ put on the only dresa . she had ‚ and made it back to the old hc~ (her first master‘ s folk).


Ihat the Slaves £xpect•d ~

	“When the slaves were treed, they got ihat they expected. ~ They were glad to get it and get away with it, and that was what mother and them did.


&ar ~ Time Preaching

	“One time when an old white man caine along who wanted to preach, the white people gave him a chance to preach to the nigger.. The aubatenca of his sermon was this:

*	‘Now when you servants are working for your masters, you ~at b

honest. When YOU go to the mil1,~ don‘t carry along an extra sack and ~nit

SOlDß Of the neal or the flour in for yourself. And when you women are cooking