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It was hard to have your child took ott and never eec or hear tell of

it.	Meen man buy it and bat it up. ~ of them was drove off to be sold at auction at New Orleans. That wae where BOaS took ths~ cause they could ~st big money for them.

	I never knowd of a master to ‚ive th slavee a dime when they become free • They never promiased them nothing. The Yankeee might have to toll them off. The banda all stayed on John Freeman‘e place and when it was over he give them the privilege of staying right on in their houses. Some left after awhile and went somewhere they thought they could do better.

	They didn‘t have the Ku Klux but it was bout like it what they had. They wore caps shine de coons eye and red caps and red garments. Red symbolize blood reason they wore red. They broke up our preaching.

Some folks got killed, Some was old, some young —— old devilah ones.

They was like a drove of ~arments. I guess you be scared. They run the colored folks away from church a lot of times. That was about equalization after the freedom. That was the cause of that.

	There was uprisings like I‘m telling you but the colored folks didn‘t hava nothing to go in a gun if he had one. Thite folks ~*ke them give up a gun.

	The first votin I done I was workin for young flenry Larson back in Mississippi. lie give my mother $120 a year to cook for his young wife and give her ~hat ehe eat and I workd on his farm. He told me to go vote, it was election day. I ask him how was I going to know how to vote. I could read a little. I couldn‘t writs. The ballot box was at Pleasant Mount. Ozan set ovr the box. He was a Tenkss.