‚ “Oh yessuni~ Us heared ‘bout~ ‘ein, but none of us never seed no patterollers on U~rse Alec‘s plantation. ne never ‘iov:ed ‘em on hisland, and ne let ‘em know dat he kept his slaves supplied wid passes whenever dey wanted to go piaees so ~s dey could cor~ie and go when dey got good end ready. Thur8day E~fld ~adday nights was de main nights dey went off. Uncle Stafford‘s wife was Miss Me~ry ~tephen‘s cook Uncle Jim‘s wife lived
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on de Finley place, and uncle isom~s belonged to de liollises, so dey tiad regular passes all de time and no patterollers never
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bot!aered ‘ein none.

	“Whenever ~1arse L~lec or Marse Lordnorth wanted to send a message~ dey jus‘ put ~eorge or Mack on a horse and sont ‘ein on but one thing sho, dere warn‘t no slave knowed what was in dem letters. ~

“Marse Alec sho had plenty of mules. Some of.‘em
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w~s named: Pete, Clay, Rollin, Jack, and Sal. Sal was £Llen‘s

~‘low mule, and he set a heap of store by her. Dere was a heap ~~re mules on dat place, but ï can‘t call back dere names right


	‚ “Most times when slaves went to deir quarters at ni~ht, mens rested, but sometimes dey holped. de ‘ornans c~yard de cotton• and wool. Young folkses frolicked, sung songs, and
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visited from cabin to cabin. When dey got behind wid. de field

wuk, sometimes slaves wuked atter dinner Saddays, but dat warn‘t often. But, Oh, dein Sadday nights~ Dat was when slaves got to~ether and danced. George, he blowed de quills ‚ and he sho
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~u1d blow prend dence ~nu~ic on ‘ein.
Dem Ni~.gers would jus‘