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they soon got sold off. They mated a heap of them and sold them for speculation. No main I didn‘t like slavery. We had plenty to eat but they worked for all they got. Rad good fires and good wari~ houses and good clothes but I did not like the way they cive out the provi.. E3~OflS. They blowed a horn and measured out the weeks paratta for every family. They cooked at the cabins for their own farailies. There was several springs and a deep rock walled well at old. mistress‘ house. Old mistress always lived in a fine house. I slept at my mother‘s house nearly all the time. ~he had a big family. White folks raised me up to play with Ed till I thought I was white. They taught me to do right and I ain‘t forgot it. I never was arrested. I married three times, bought three marriage license all in Prairie County. All three wives died.

	I owns dis house ‘cept a mortgage of ~5O. One of my boys got in a difficulty. I don‘t know where he is to get him to pay it off. The other boy ‘ s not man enough either to pay it oft.

	I never did know jess when the Civil War did close. I kept hearing ‘em say we are free. I didn‘t see ~mi~ch difference only when Colonel Williams come back times wasn‘t so hard. Then. he sold out and come to Arkansas. Then each family raised his own hogs end chickens and. finally got to have cows.

	I was as scared of the Ku Klux Klan as of rattlesnakes. In Tennessee they come up the road and back Just after dark. They rode all night and if you. wasn‘t on your master‘s own land and didn‘t have a pass from him or the overseer they would set the dogs on you and nui you horns. Sometimes they would whip them.