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	“Marse Billy bought my gran‘rna in Virginia. She was part Injun. I can see her long, straight, black hair now, and when she died she d idn‘ t have gray hair like mine . They say Injuns don‘ t turn gray like other folks. Gran‘ma made cloth for the white foiks ‚.‚ aild slaves on the plantation. I used to hand her thread while she .‚7a6 weavin‘ . The lady what taught Gran‘nia to weave cloth, was Mist‘ ess ~owei, and she was a foreigner, ‘cause she warn‘ t born in Georgia. 3he had two eons what run the factory between ~atkinsville and Athens. :~ aunt, Mua Jackson, made all the thread what they done the weavin‘ ~tzith. Gran‘pa worked for a widow lady what was a simster (se~stress) a~id she just had a little plantation. She was Mist‘ ess~ Dooli.ttle. di Gran‘pa done was cut wood, ‚ tend the yard and gyard.en‘. lie had. rheumatism and couldn‘t do much.

	“There ain‘t niuch to tell about what we done in the slave quarters, ‘cause when we got big enough, we had to work: nus8in‘ the baMes, totin‘ water, and helpin‘ Gran‘ma with the weavin‘ ‚ and cuch like. -beds was driv to the walls of the cabin; foot and headb~ard put together with rails, what run from head to fiot. Planks ..~as laid crossways and straw put on them and the beds was kivve red .‘~ith the whitest sheets you ever seen. Some n~ade pallets on the floor.

	“No, Ma‘am, I didn‘t make no money t~jJ after freedom. I heard tell of ten and fifteen cents, but I didn‘t know nothing ‘bout no fi gge re • I di dn‘ t know a ni eke I from a dime them days.

	“Yes, Ma‘am, Marse Billy ‘lowed his slaves to have t~:3ir own gyardens, and ‘side~‘ plenty of good gyarden sass, we had :~±1k and butter, bread and meat, chickens, greens, péas, and just ~verything that growed on the farm. Winter and summer, all the food