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	“I had a sister naxnad Martha Qirtia after hi8 youn.g wife~ I had a

brother named Rousy Patton. They are both dead. now, Pa lived to be ninety. eight years old. My mama was as white as you is but she was a nigger woman. Pa was lighter than I is now~ i‘m getting darker ‘cause l‘in getting old, My pa was named Benjamin Washington,

	“I heard my pa talk about Nat Turner. (~‘he knew who he was o .k. —ed0)

He ~ot up a rebellion o~ black folk back in Virginia. I heard my pa sit and tell about him~. Moses Kinnel was a rich white man wouldn‘t sell Nellie ‘cause of what h~a wire said~ She was a housemaid, He wrote o~wn free pass book and took her to Maryland~ Father‘s father wanted to buy Nellie but her ovnier wouldn‘t sell her, He took her,

	“My mother had fourteen ohildren~ Me and Archie was the youngest,

	“Moses Kinnel was a rich white man and had lots of servants. He promised never to sell Nellie and keep her to raise his white children. She
;as his maid, He promised that her dying bed,	~it father‘s father stole
her and took her to Maryland.	          ~

	“Pa run away and was sold twice or more. When he was ~na11 chile his mother done fine washing. She sent him to go tetob her some fine laundry soap what they bought in the towns ~ Two white insu in a two..~wheel open buggy say, ‘hey, don‘t you want to ride?‘ ‘I ain‘t got time.‘ ‘Get in buggy, we‘ll take you a little piece.‘ One jumped out and tied his hands together.

They sold him. They let him go to nigger traders.~ They had him at a doctor‘s examining his fine head see what he could stand. The doctor say, ‘rie is a fine man. Gould ti~st him with silver and gold—his weight in ‘ They bruni hini to Mississippi and sold him for a big price. He had these ~pers the doctor wrote On him to show,