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he blowed to wake up desiaves- Re blowed it long ffore~day. SO:
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äst dey couldeát ~ out dere tnde fie1~a~Wa1tin!:,
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for de suri to rise so: dey could ~ee bow to wuk, and dey~:s~aye& oi~it

dar and wukked ‘til.black.dark. When a rainy.sp~ei1 comeandde ~ grass got to growin‘ fast, deywukked dem sieves at night, even

when de moonwarn‘.t éh1nin~‘4 Ondern darknights one set o~ slaves helt lanterns for de ot1èrs~ to see how to chop de weeds out of de

e3tt~n and corn. Wuk was~ ShO‘ tight déni days. Evvy si&ve had a ~ task to do atter dey got back to dem ~ab1ns at night. D~y ~achOne ~E~d to spin deir stint same as ~e ‘amans, evvy night. ~ ~. ~

	“Young ~ and old washed d.eii clothes Sadday nights .

Dey hardly knowed what SUnday was. Dey didn‘t have but one d~y~1n de Christmas, and deoniy dLtt‘unce dey seed dat day was datde,~give: ~ tera some biscuits on ehristmas day. I~ew Year‘s ‘Day wa~ râïi-~1ittin‘
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clay. Dey was told howrnany rails was to be out, and dem Nig~ers ~. better split dat many or somebody was gwine ‘to glt beat up. ~

	“I don‘t ‘member much ‘bout ~iat us played, ‘eëpt• de ~~‘ay us run ‘round in a ring. Us chillun was allus s~e~ to play

~: ~ n~€h de house ‘causeRaw xiea~andBlood~i3one~lived der. Dcv used to skeer us out ‘bout red ‘tatar S . • D~ey~ I~s fine
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!taters red on de outsidé and pretty and white ôn~de inside, but

7thite folks called ‘em ‘nigger~kiliers.‘ ~ flat‘ was one of deir tricks to ~ ~ bere wern‘t nothin‘ wrong wid ~ dem ‘taters; dey was jus‘ as good and healthy as any other ‘taters.