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	“N~o Mam, I never knowed how many acres dere was ir~ de plantation us lived on, and Marse Alec~had other places too. He hsd land scattered evv:ywhar. Lord, dere was a heap of ~T~:~gers on dat place, end all of us was kin to one another. ‘~rE~ndrn~ Becky and Grandpa ~~tafford was de fust slaves ~arse hJec ever had, and dey sho had a passel of chillun. One thins sijo I~arse Lordnorth wOuldn‘t keep ~ on clot pl~nt~tio~ if he could help it. Aunt i~iary was a bricht colored Nigger and dey said dat Marse John, Marse .~ordnorth‘s br~tiier, was her Pa, but anyhow Marse Lordnorth never had no ~ for her ‘cause she was a bright colored Nigger.

	%	“Marse Lordrîorth never had no certain early time ~r his slaves to ~it up nor no s2ecial late time for ‘eni to :ju!t wuk. De hours dey wuked was ‘cordin‘ to how much wuk was aheod to be done~ Folks in Crawfordville called us ‘Stephens‘
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b~~t he let us do pretty much as us pleased. Us never had no s::Try piece of a Marster. He was ~ good man and he made a sho ‘nou~h good Marster. I never seed no Nigger git a beatin‘, ~nd wkaat‘s moiLe I never heared of nothin‘ lak dat on our place. ~ere was a Jail in ‘~rawfordviIle, but none of us Niggers on ~orse Alčcis placewarn‘t never put in it.

	~	‚~ “No Lord~ None of us Niggers never knowed rlothixi‘~ ‘bout readin‘ and writin‘. Dere warn‘t no school for