Slave Interview	. Page 7
Rachel A. Auetin ~
Jacksonville, Florida ~
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	Emancipation ea~iie and. with it great rejoicing. He recalls that Republicans were called ~Radica1e~ jUBt after the close of the Civil War. ~

	. ‚ ‚	Mr. Lane was able to save a].]. of hi~ rn~a~t,. silver, and. other valixablea during the war by having a cave dug in the hog pasture; thehogs trampled over it daily.

	“Parson“ states that among the papers in his

trunk he has a piece of. money called “shin plasters“ which was ueed. during the Civil War.

	The slaves were not allowed to attend schools of any kind; and. school facilities inmiediately following Emancipatiorx were very poor; when the first teacher, Miss Smith, a Yankee, cathe to Sparta, Georgia and began teaching S~rxday School, ai]. of the children were given testaments ~or catechisnie which tneir parente were afraid for them to keep lest their masters whip them, but the teacher called on the parents and~ explained to them that thèy were as free as their former masters.

	~	ftParsonid states that when he was born, his mas~ ter named him “Monk“ His grandfather, Willis Andrews, who was a free man of Pittsburg,Pennsylvania, purchased the freedom of his wife Lizzie, but was never able to purchase their four child— ren; hie father, also named Willis, died. a slave, was driven in an ox-cart to a hole that had. been thtg, put in it and covered up;
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