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Lots of de colored people nearly starved. Not much to get to do and not irnich house rocm. ~evereJ. families had to live in one house. Lots of the colored folks went up north and froze to death. They couldn‘t stand the cold. They wrote back about them dieing. No they never sent them back. I heard some sent for money to come back. I heard plenty bout the Ku ~.ux. They scared the folks to death. People left Augusta in droves. About a thousand would all meet and walk going to hunt work and new home8. Some of them died, I had a sister and brother lost that way. I had another sister come to Louisiana that way. She wrote back.

	I don‘t think the colored folks looked for a share o±~ land.. They never got nothing cause the white folks didn‘t have nothing but barren hills lett. About all the mules was wore out hauling provisions in the army. Some folks say they ought to done more for de colored folks when dey i~ft, but dey say dey was broke. Freeing all de slaves left em broke.

	That reconstruction was a mighty hard pull. Me and ma

	dn‘ t live • A. man paid our ways to Carli sie ‚ Arkansas and we come. We started working for Mr. Einenson. He had a big store, tearns)and land. We liked it fine, and I been here fifty-~sii years now. There was so much wild game living was not so hard. If a fellow could get a little bread and a place to stay he was all right. After I come to dis state I voted some. I have farmed and worked at odd jobs. I farmed mostly. Ma went back to her old master. He persuaded her to come back home. Me and her went back and run a farm four or five years before she died. Then I come back here,