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e~~1augh1n‘ fit to kill. She looked ‘round to see what d~ey was
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tickled ‘bout and dere roliowin‘ her lak a baby was dat pig. Dem

yankees was perlite lak, and dey never bothered nothin‘ on our place, but dey jus‘ plumb ruint evvything on some of de plantations right close to our‘n. Dey tuk nigh evvything some of our neighbors had t‘eat, most all deir good hosses, and anything else dey wanted. Us never did know why dey never bothered our white folkses‘ things.

	“When dey give us our freedom us went right on over to Marse BIllie Battle‘s place and stayed dar wid Daddy ‘bout a year; den iiaddy corne wid us back to Marse Henry‘s, and dar us stayed ‘tu Old i~~arster died. Long as he lived atter de war, he wukked most of his h!~ ~ and seed dat us was tuk keer of jus‘ lak he had done when us all b‘longed to him. Us never went to school much ‘cause Mammy said white folks didn‘t lak for Niggers to have no hirnin‘, but atter de war was done over our Old Mist‘ess i~t~ colored cr.i11unhavesome1esso~i~ .. ~ ~ .~.. ~ builtin de back ~r~ardfor de white chillun to go to sonool in.

	“Atter dey buried our Old Marster, us moved down to ~ï~ncock County and f‘~rmed dar, ‘cause dat was all us knowed how to do. Us got tog~ther and raised money tobuy ground enough for a churchyard and a graveyard for col‘ored folks. Dat graveyard filled ~ç so last dat dey had to buy more land several times. Us holped tern build de fust colored church in Hancock Gounty.

	*School for colored chillun was held den in our church house. Our teacher was a white man, Mr. .L‘om Andrews, and he was