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Slave DrOves

	“The drove passed through Alabama, but my father du‘ t know wher lt came frcin nor where it vent. They wer sefling slaves. They would pick up a big Lot of them somewhere, and they would drive them across the couiitry sefling some every place they stopped. My master bought my mother out of ‚ the drove. Droves came throii~h very often. I don‘ t know where they ce~ from0


War Memories ~	.

	“My father reimbered coming thrOugh Alabama. 11e remembered the soldiers coming through Alabama. They didn‘t bother any çolored people but they killed a lot of white people, tore up the tci~n and took some White babies OUt and bu8ted their brains out. That is what my father said. ly father died in 1910. He was pishing eighty then and maybe ninety. He had a house full of drown children and grandchildren end great grandchildren. Ho wasn‘t able to do no work when he died. It was during the War that my father ran away Into Georgia with me ‚ too.


Breeding

	‚I(y father said they put medicine in the water (cisterns) to make the young slaves have raore children. If his old master had a good breeding woman he wouldn‘t sell her. He would keep her for himself.


. Worship

	“When they were praying for peace they used. ~ to turn down the wash kettles to keep ~the sound down. In the master‘s church, the biggest thing
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that was preached to them was how to serve their master and mi4tias,