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I jus‘ stayed Iride house and wailed on Marster and Mistiss.

I cleaned up de house, made de beds, churned for Mistiss, arid

niade i~ires Ibor Marster. My Ma, she cooked tor Marster and Mistiss,

cleaned up de house, and waited on Mistiss ‘cause she was a invalid.

	“Marse J~ini Dubose‘s plantation covered thousands of acres, and he owned hundreds of slaves. You see, my Marster was de man what handled all or dese here Ni~ers. ~vvy raornin‘ Marster Jesse would git up and go out and blow his horn, da~ was de way he called de Niggers to de fields.

	“De overseer‘s house was a one—story buildin‘ and. it was furnished in de old time stuff. De beds was teestered and ha~ slats to hold de mattresses. When Marster would come in from de fields he would be so tired he never did go nowliar. Sometimes I would say to him, ‘I‘se cold,‘ and he would say, ‘Nig, you. jus‘ crawl up on de foot of my bed and git warm.‘ 11e would say ‘Nig, what you want for supper?‘ and I would say, ‘I wants some bread and milk and a little syrup.‘ He give me anything dat I wanted to eat, and us had good things to eat. Us had chickens, hogs, and good milk cows. I kin see de big bowls ot milk now dat us used to have. Us made a heap of butter and sont it to Augusta onct a month and sold lt ror 2Ø a pound.

	“Atter freedom come, Marster said to me and Ma, ‘you all is flee now to go wharever you wants to.‘ Ma, she wanted to go, but I jus‘ cried and cried ‘cause I didn‘t want to leave Marster and Mistiss; dey was too good to me. So Ma tuk me and