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LUG! MCCULLOUGH
	.	Ex-slave, Age 79.


“Doe s Ah ‚ member ‚ bout war time ‚ en d~em days‘

de war? Yassuta, Ah sho‘ does. Ah blong ter Marse Ned~ Carter In Walton county.“

“Whut Ah ‘members 111OS~ Is d4~rnIiest beatin‘ Ah.

ebbe r got fuin de overseer on Ma~e Ned‘ s place . • De • hawgs wuz

dyln‘ iaoughty bad~ wid choiry, en Marse Ned lied. ‘is mens drag evvy dead hawg off in de woods ‘en bun ‘em up ter keep de cholry turn

spreadin‘ mongst de udder hawgs. De mens wuz keerless ‘bout die tire ‚ en ‘ long de woods wuz on fire ‚ en de way dat rire spread~ In dem dry grape vine s I n de woods inek it ‚ pe er lak ‚jed~e nt day

t~*us chifluns. Us run ‘bout de woods lookin‘ at de mens tight
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de tire, en evvy time we see er~new place ei‘ blaze we run dis way

en dat way, twel tus‘ thing us knows, we is p1u~ 0fr Marss Ned~‘s plantation ‚ en us doan rightly know whar us is • Us play ‚

In de woods en arter while Marse Ned‘ s overseer own fine us ‚ en he
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druv us back t~ de big house yaM en give evvy orte uv us ~r good.

beaten ‚ . Ah ‘ witz blaok . en blue ‚ en Ah~ nebber &H th~it en run otten Marae Ned‘s lan‘ no lao‘ lessen I,hed e~pass.“

	“Mah mammy ‚ she wuz cook at dsi‘- big house ‚ en Ah. wuz raised da~in de kitchen en de back yaM at de big house. Ah ‘~mz

~ be ~ maid. ter de ladies In de big	. De house servant 8 bold that dey is .ó step better den de field niggers. House sei‘vants wuz n1gg~ quality folks . „

	Ah m~us‘ not ~ been mo‘ en thee àfo‘ yea~‘s oie when Misa Millie curn out in de kitchen one day, en ‘gin t~ seold my

mammy ‘bout de sorry way mammy d~one clean d~e chitlln/s. Ah am‘