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~It she Was in th house and she could ateal the pâpera and send them döWa, Later she could slip off and they would t.Ï1 her the newa, ai~d then shs

could slip the papers baok~	~ .

	‘Her master drank so ich he couldn‘t walk wIthout tailing end she would have to help him out. Her mistress was really good. She never allowed the overseer to whip her. ~e was only whipped once In slave t~me while my father‘s mother was whipped more times than you. could count,

	“Her rnaáter often said, ‘I‘ll drink myself to death before I‘ll go to war and be shot down like a damn target . ‚ She said in living with them in the house ‚ she learned to ~ eues from him. She said she was a eussin‘ soul until she became a Christian. She wasn‘t ‘fraid of them because she was kin to them in • some way. There was another woman there who was so~ kin to them

and she looked enough like my grandma for them to be kin t each other, We	•

talked it over several times and said we believed we were related~, but none

of us know for sure ~

	“When the slaves wanted soi~thing said they would have my grandma say it because they knew she wouldn‘t be. whipped tor it. ‘Ihite Ma‘ wouldn‘t let nobody whip her if she iœew it. She cussed the overseer out that tine for whipping her,

~/‘ “When grandma was	old they locked her up in the seed house once or twice for not going to church, You see they let the

white folks go to the church in the mornin€ ~ and the colored folks in the evening, and my grandma didn‘ t always want to go. 3h would be locked up in the seed bin and she would cuss the preacher out so he could hear her. She

Would say, ‘Master, let us out . ‚ And he would say, ‚ You. want to go to Church?‘ And she would say, ‘No, I don‘t want to hear that saie old sermon:

“Stay out o~ ïoi~r misajat ~ master‘s hen house. Don‘t steal ~ ~~ss1s‘