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~l~?l~S ‘til atter de warb	~ ~ ~ . I ~ ~ . ~No Main, dere warn‘t no special cornahuokin‘s

a~-jd c:tton pickin‘s on Marse Alec‘s place, but of oou.rse dey d~~d quilt in de winter ‘cause dere had to be lots of ~uiItin‘
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~one for eli dein s.lavesto have plenty of warm kivver, and you

•~flO7•~S, Lady, ‘omens can quilt better if dey gits a passel of ‘ein to~ether to do it. Marse Alec ~j Marse Lordnorth never ‘lowed dore slaves to mix up wid other folkses business niuch.

	“Oh Lord~ Us never played no games in slavery tiies, ‘cept sus‘ to run around in a ring and. pat our hands. I never suns ~ sonjs ‘caus€ I warn‘t no singer, and don‘t talk ‘~cut no R&W liead and, Bloody Bones or nothin‘ lak dat. Dej used to skeer us ehillun so bad ‘bout dem sort of things dat U,s use,d to lay inbedat night a-~shakin‘ lak us was ilavi~n~‘ chills . ~ ~ Not~ lor~g atter I riad left ~rawfQrdvi1Ie and moved to athena, I tiad been in bed jus‘ a little while one ni~Jat, and was jus‘ dozin‘ off to sleep when I woke up and sot right spang up ~n bed. I seed a white man, dressed in white, standin‘ before me. ~ I silo ~idn‘t say nothin‘ ~ hirn for I was too skeered. Dé very last ti:~e I went to a ~ianee, sornepin got attermeand skeered rae so my h~ir riz up ‘tu I couldntt git m.y hat on my haid, and 4s~
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c~ored rae of gwine to dances. I ain‘t never been to/more si~h