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..1511.







	The greatest event in the lue of a slave was about to occur, and the most soLroWful in the life of a master, FREEDOM ~ at hands A Negro was seen coming in the distanoe, mounted upon a mule, approaching Mr. Jami8on, who stood upon the poLoh • He told him of the liberation o1~ the eLves, Mr. Jamison had never before been heard to ourse, but this was one day that he let ~o a torrent of words th~t are unworthy to appear in rrint. ife then broke down and cried like a s1~ve who was being lashed by his cruel rn~ster. He called Mary‘s mother and father, Phyliss and Sandy, ‘I ain‘t got no more to do with you, you are free, ‚ he said, ‘if you want to stay with rue you may and I‘ll give you one~.third of what you~ise.‘ They decided to st~ty. ~hen the crop Was harvested the master did not do as he had prontised, lie bave them nothing. Mary slipped away, mounted the old mule ‘Mustang‘ and gt~lloped away at a mules snail speed to Newnaneville where she related‘what had happened to a Union Qaptain. He save her a letter to give to Mr. ‘Jamison, In it he reminded him that 1f he di dn‘ t give Mary‘ s family ‘what he had promi s od he would be put in jail. Without hesitation the old m~ster complied with these pungent orders,


	After this incilent Mary and her family left the good old boss to seek a new abode in other parts. This Was the first time that the master had in any way displayed any kind of unfairness toward them, perhaps it WtLS the reaction to havin~ to liberate them.


:~ ~R~I~GEg

	There waa no inarriabe d~rin~ slsvery according to oivil or reli~ioue

~	CLLstOnt among the si ayes . If a sI ~ve saw a woman whom he desired ho told his ~ster, IL‘ the woman in question belonged on another plantation, the master ~Ould consult her master; ‘one or my boys ~.nte to marry one of your gals,‘ he wouj. d say • As a rul e it ~ agresabi e that they should li ye together &8 ma~ and wile. This was encouraged ±or it increased the sl~vo population by