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	“My grandmother was roug)ily treated and she had pretty near lost her eyesight from the ill treat~nt. sue got so ~etore &ie died that ehe could hardlY see to go nowhere • I don ‚ t know what it waa they done to her that made her eyesight bad, but she insleted that lt wa~ due to bad treatment in slavery time.

PatroUera

	WI have heard that the paterolea used. to run the slaves it they didn‘ t

have a pass from their mistress and master. The paterolea would run th~ and catch them and whip them.


How Freedom Cerna

	“All my mother knew was that it got out that the Negroes were trees The day before the old woman told them that they were free, my grandfather, Henry Goodman iho was a ~~ater, old mie‘ called him and told him to tell all the darkies to come up to the house the next day.

	“Next morning, she said, ‘Henry, you forgot what I told you. I want you to cal]. all the darkies up here this morning. ‚ Henry had a voice like a fog-horn. He started hollering. I wish I could holler the way he did, but I got to consider the neighbors. He hollered, ‚ ‘Tention, ‘tention, hey; Miss Lucy says she wants you ail up to ths big house this morning.

She‘s got 8oXnepin to tell you.‘

	“They ai]. come up to the yard before the house. When they got there, 8he says to him-.not to them; she wouldn‘t talk to them that morning; mayhe she was too full~‘Henry, you all just as free now as I a~. You can stay here with Misa Lucy or you can go to work with whoensoever YOfl will. YOU don‘t belong to M1S~ LUCy no more.‘