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dat way de patterollers si ciced dem nigger hounds on hl* and ~ when dey cotched him dey most beat him to death; he couldn‘t lay on his back for a long time.

‘tlf dey had Jails, I didn‘t know nothin‘ ‘bout ‘em. De patterollers wid deir nigger hounds made slaves b‘have deirseifs widout puttin‘ ‘ein in no jails. I never seed no Niggers sold, but Mamniy saii her and her whole fambly was sold on de block to de highes‘ bidder and dat was when 01e Marster got us.

“Manmiy, she was de cook up at de big house, and when de white chiflun come back from school in de atternoon she would ax ‘em to show her how to read a little book what she carried ‘round in her bosom all de time, and. to tell lier de other things dey had larn‘t in school dat day. Dey lamed her how to read and write, and atter de War was over Mammy teached scnool and was a granny ‘oman (midwife) too.

*Dey made us go to church on Sundays at de white folks church ‘cause dere warn‘t no church for slaves on de plantation. Us went to Sunday School too. Mammy jined de white folks church and was baptized by de white preacher. 11e larnt us to read de Bible, but on some of de plantations s:IaVes warntt ‘lowed to lam how to read and write. I didn‘t have no favorite preacher nor song neither, but Mammy had one song what $he sung lots. It was ‘bout ‘Hark from de Tombs a Doleful Sound.‘ I never seed nobody die and I never went to no buryin‘ dunn‘ slav‘ry time, so I cain‘t tell nothin‘ ‘bout things lak dat.