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try mother h.t~ biUd s raflroad before abe waS aarrtéd to my Pz~tbsr,. My motherts tt~V~ hûsiaM was *alt any (rota berg shuo1~s, . some ot the masters dSdn‘ t este. hot they treated buSs
. bande, wives, :perente an4 children; any of them mip)tt~ bi eøpftflia ted from the other, A good pflce tot a n%g€er‘ use 8i8OO on, ctovn and. if one was what was c4slled a sta1Ito~ (healthy), able

to eét plenty ebtidren he would )rtnj; abmt SaSoo. • ‚ . .

.	‚ . ‘They had what ne called lejaljnoney s

some ot it tutsuesa it was lnrned *ön t lost ~ house by tin
a Zew years atio,	~ .	. ‚ ~

	•!Ti~w, my master had three bo~e‘aM two @rls; his wife, !itsabeth, was atnut Ukethe à..tnaxl,rnlLsnsg ?ZastAr . Da!te was good, but positive; . he dt6ntt allow other whites to• bothrr hLI slaves, ~ . ‚ s ~ ‚

.	“When the ~wa? CaRte, his two thysi went tiret, final»

7~asthr Thsvis went; he art one s~ri. never. r~ttzrmd,	‚

...‚	. $1mo Yankees killed cows, eth~ se th«y went along tnt did not destroy~ any property tr~*&nd where I was0

	“We had pret‘~chere ar4 d~ootore, butno schools; the Wb&%e~, preachers told us to çfr*y tnxi would z‘eaû the Bible (ihiob we could

not understand) cwtd told us nob to steal s~s, ‚ Most of thé ~ect~i
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usetl boite from the woqda nt~ 04unt Jane0 arid ‘Uncle Bob0 nt‘s ~ ••

known toi, ustn€ 64%$S& S Snake 1¼‘ ‘bett,‘ s shoe~stn.nt~ ter

atott~eb troubtee .*H øt~v~~ Myrtl~~ tor tevers~ *hSV* ~$Od 1*11e •

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