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	“Ne chullun had nothing to do wid coffee. We drunk milk out little bowls. We ‚ d turn it up or lap it out wi~icii one could do the best ~ They fed ug. TIe‘d ask for more till we got filed up.

	“I recollect the soldiers cc~ by in Jb.].y 1863 or 1864 and back in December~ I heard talk so long ‘fore they got there I knowed who they waa. They took my oldest brother. He didn‘t want to go. We never heard from him. He never come back. My white master hid out, He didn‘t go to ware One son went and co~ back. It was the Yankeea made my olde8t brother go. The firat crowd in 3~uly swapped their wore-out scrub stock for our good stock. That second crowd cleaned them out, took oui‘ hogs. Mies Betty had died ‚ fore they come in ~u1y. That second crowd come in December. They cleaned out everything to eat and wear. They eat the house ‚ fire several times with paper and coal oil (kerosene). It went out every tii~. One told the captain. He come up behind. It went out every tine • He said, ‚ Le‘ s move on.‘ They left it clean and bare. We didn‘t like them. We had meat hid In the cellar. We got hungry that spring sure as you born.

	“The old man married pretty soon after freedom. He married young to what he wasp

	“I didn‘t find nuich tault to slavery ‘cepting the abuse. We et three times a day and now if I get one piece I do well. Mother cooked, washed, ironed and spun four cats a day. We all et at the master‘ s kitchen three ti.riies a day. We had thirty.4wo families, I‘ve heard that ag~ j~j time and a~‘1n so as I recollect it till now. We didn‘t have to work no harder ‘en we do now if you have a living.

	“Master waited till a].]. there • He had a horn made sorter like a bu,~1e for that business. Called us to our D1$&1.8. We sta~red a 7ear.