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‘lowed, ‘but if	you do, I will have to pay you wages for your work.‘ ~ nI never saw no Yankee~s in Athens, but I was in.Atlanta.

at Mrs. Winshi~pts on Peachtree Street, when General Sherman come to that town ‘parin‘ his men forto go home. There was about two thousand in all, white and black. They marched up and down Marietta Street from three o‘clock in the evening ‘tu seven ö‘clook next morning. Then they left. I remember well that there warn‘ t a house left standing in Atlanta, what warn‘ t riddled with shell hole s. I was scared j~retty nigh to death and I never want to leave home at no tune like that again. i3ut Pa saw ‚ em soon after that in Athens . They ~ was a marching down Broad Street on their way to Macon, and Pa said it looked like a blue cloud going through.

	“Ma and me stayed on with Marse Billy ‘bout six months after the War ended before we come to town to live with Pa. We lived. right back of i~tock College and Ma took in washin‘ fox‘ the folks what • went to school there. No, Ma‘am I never saw no Ku Kiuxers. Me and Lia didn‘t leave home at night and the white folks wouldn‘t let ‘em git Pa. ~

	«Major ~ brought three or. four teachers to teach in a school for Negroes that was started up here the first year after the War. Major Knox, he was left like a sort of Justice of ?~ace to ~.et things to going smooth after the War. I went to school there about three months, then Ma took sick, and I didn‘ t go no more. My white teacher was Miss Sarah, and she was. from Chice.go.. ~

	“Now and then the Negroes; bought a little land, and white folks gave little places to some Negroes what had been goo.d slaves for ‘em.
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