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	“Marster had. mighty good. keer tuk of his slaves when dey got sick. .Üere warn‘t many doctors dem days. Dey jus‘ used home-~rnade medicines, mostly teas raad.e out of yarbs (herbs). I jl~13‘ can‘t git up no ricollection of i~jhat yarbs dey did put In dem teas. I does ‘member dat chillun had to live wid. bags of assfiddy (asafetida) ‘round deir necks to keep off ailments. Ma give rae and Bob, each one, a bio~k of dat assfiddy for good luck. I throwed fly block ‘way a few yesrs ago, and I ain‘t had nothin‘ but bad luck ever since. Dat‘s why I can‘t git up de things you wants to know ‘bout. My minci jus‘ don‘t wuk right no more.

	“Dem yankees was on de go all “e time. One of ‘em come to old ~erster‘s house and axed one of my uncles to go off wid him. Uncle was old and skeered and he thought de yankees might kill him or somepin lak dat. Then de 7T~r was done over, old Marster told us ‘bout how things was. ~±e said us was free and would have to do de best us could for ourselfs. Dem was happy days for Niggers. Dey sho‘ didn‘t take no more foolishinent off of white folks atter dat, and dey don‘t pay ‘em no mind now. Niggers got so bad atter dey got deir freedom dat de Ku Kiuxers come ‘round and made ‘em be‘have deirselfs. One of dem Eluxers corae to our house and set down and talked to us ‘bout how us ought to act, and r~ow us was goin‘ to have to do, if us ‘spected to live and do well. Us allus thought it was our own 1d Marster, all dressed up in dem white robes wid his race kivvered up, and a-talkin‘ in a strange, put-on lak, voice. None of Merster‘s Ni~ers never left him for ‘bout two or three years. ~ere warn‘t no way for Niggers to buy no land ‘tu atter dey could make and save up