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	Follow1n~ 15 the aceount of slavery ~s told by Mr. Isaac Green, *iio 3pent a pert oib :ls ehildhood as a slate.

	“I wus bc~rn In Greene Co~~nty, Georgia ‚ eight~r-.one years a~. My n*reter w~ named Colonel ~ lilie. Le sua a rich n~n an‘ hi had a whole lots o‘ slaves — ~ ‘bout seventy~tive or r;ore. Besidee niy mother an‘ me I k~d nine si8tere. I wus de younges‘ chile. I didn‘t know ‘bout my tatr4ûr ‘till after surr&tdsr, ‘sause ol‘ irfirster sold him ‘way funi my mother when I w~a two ye~rs old.

	~hi1:U I wue big enuff I k~‘d to go to de fiel‘ wid de rcs‘ O‘ de ahillim an‘ drap corn an‘ p&~s. ;~e‘d take our heels an‘ dent a place in de grota‘ an‘ ta every dent ~e ~d to drap two psas. S~netimee we‘d n~ke a mistake an‘ diap three seeds 1x~stead o‘ two ~ if‘ we did die too otten lt meant de etrtip ft de overa~. On our riantatlon we b*id a colored an‘ a white oversee‘.

	“:~~ cl‘ r~r~tr nevt~r did w1~up me an‘ he didn‘t ‘lop none o‘ de overseers to wnup me eithr. }Ie always say: ‘lL~t‘s my nigger I sol‘ ~is father wh•n I coulda saved him he wus de bee‘ ~n I had on de piantaticn.‘ De rest o‘ de slaves uster git wÎÀut~pins sorietiinea fer not workin‘ like ceç should. ~~flen dey didn‘t work or some other little t Ing like c~t dey would git twœty..five or fifty lashes but de intirster would tell de ove~aee~ : ‘Do: ‘t you out my nigger‘s hide or scar him. You see if a slave «us scarred rie wouldn‘t brine‘ ~s ~iuct~ as one ~ith a sn~oth hid. in ~se de z~rst~r ~anted to sell la, ‘cause de buyers would see de soar. en‘ say dat he s a b~id ni~er.

	ox~etin~s ~e women uster git whu~pins fer ttghtin‘. 01‘ n~reter ustex‘ tell rr~y mother all de time dat he wtis goit‘ to rive ner one—hundred lashes if she didn‘t stop fightin‘, but rie never did do it thoigh. ~y grsndmother never did git