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would WhUp‘eIE ‘bout dat. Mareter never had to take nOne or his Niggers to court or put ‘em in jails neithei~,,4m anade~overseer~ sot ‚ ein right . Long as miss S~flie lived de carriaee driver driv
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her snd ~arse Lewis around lots, but atter~~ she died dere warn‘t so much use ofde carriage. lie j~‘ driv for ~arse Lewisand pid.dled
‘r~iund de yard den.	. S

“Some slaves larnt to read and write. 1±‘ dey went
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to meetin‘ dey had to go wid deir white folks ‘cause dey didn‘t have

no sep‘rete churches for de Ni~gers ‘tU atter de war. On our Merster‘s place, slaves didn‘t go off to rneetin‘ a t‘all. Dey_jus‘ went ‘rDund to OneanOther‘~Q~S and sung songs. Some of ‘eia reed de Bible by heart. Once I hčarčda man preach what didn‘t know
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hoi~ t~ read one word in de Bible, and he~j~n‘j even have no	~it.

“De fust p~~zin‘ I éver seed was átter [ was

nigh tbout grown. Ifa slave from our place ever jined up w~d a church ‘fare de war was over, I never hearęd tell nothin‘ ‘bout.it.

.— ~	“Lordy, Misse I didn‘t know nothin‘ ‘bout what

‘3 funeral was dem days. If a Nigger.died disniomin‘, dey shô‘

did,n‘t v‘aste no time a~puttin‘ him right on down in de ground dat

s~~€ c‘ay. Dein coffins never had no s1a€~pe to ‘em; dey ~as jus‘ squar~

‘~Ji~Ted rifle boxes. Now warn~t dat turrible?

“Slaves never went nowhar widout dein patterollem
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b::L_~	up if dey		didn‘t have no pass.

“Dere was hunderd~s of acres in dat dere plantation.
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:.1~r~e Lciwis had a heap of slaves. Deovers~er,he hadabu~le what