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	nÎ~1y Cather was a blacksmith and my mother was a weaver0 There was a lot of those slavery folks ‘round the bouse, and they tell nie they didn‘t work them till they were twenty‘~one ‚ they put them in the field when they. were twenty4wo. If you didn‘t work they would beat you to death, My father killed his overseer and went on off to the War,

	“The pateroles used. to drive and whip them, They would catch the slaves off without a pass and whip them and then make the boss pay for them when they took them back.0 I never seen the pateroles but I have seen the Ku Klux and they were the same thing.

	“The jayhawkers would catch you when the pateroles didn‘t, They would carry you to the pateroles and. get pay for you, and the pateroles would turn you over to the owners, You had to have a pass. If you didntt the paterolee would catch you. and wear you out ‚ keep you t ill the next morning, and then send you home by the jayhawkers. . Thčy didn‘ t cal]. them that though, they called them bushwhacker8~

	‘tThe Ku Klux came after the War, They was the same thins as the pateroles-.-4hey come out from thex~i, I know where the Ku Klux home is over here on ~ighteenth and Broadway. That is where they broke up. It ain‘t iiever been open since. (Not correct~—ed.)

	“I saw the Yankees coins in the yard on the Webb place. That was in the time of the Ware The old mati got on his horse and flew. The Yankees went Ii~ the smokehouse, broke it open, got all the meat they weiited. They didn‘t p~y you nothing in slavery time. But what meat the Yankees didn‘t take for themselves ‚ they give to the niggera.

“My folks never got anything for their work that I know of, I heard my
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fliother say that nobody got paid for their work. I don‘t know whether they

han a chance to make anything on the side or not.,