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	“Dem old. s1avery~tinie weddin‘s warn‘t lak de way i‘olkses does when dey gits married up now; dey never had. to buy no license den. When a slave man wanted to gi~ married up wid a gal he axed his rnarster, and. ir it was all ri&ht wid de inarster den him and de gal come up to de bi~ house to jump de broomstick ‘tore ~eir white folkses. De gal jumped one way and de man de other.

Most times dere was a bjj~ dance de night dey ~ot married.

	“ir a slave wanted to ~it married up wid a gal what didn‘t live on dat sanie plantation he told his marater, den his marster went and talked to de ~a1‘s marster. Ill bote deir marsters ‘greed den dey jumped de broomstick; ir neither one o~ de niarsters wouldn‘t sell to de other one, de wife jus‘ stayed on her marster‘s place and de husband was ‘lowed a pass what let him visit her twict a week on Wednesday and ~3adday ni~ht8. Ii, he didn‘t keep dat pass to show when de patterollers cotch hirn, dey was more‘n apt to b~at de skin right orI~ his back. Dem patterollers was ailus watcb.in‘ and dey was awrul rough. No Mam, dey never did. git to beat nie up. I out run ‘em one time, but I everraore did have to make tracks to keep ahead ot~ ‘em.

	“Us didn‘t know much ‘bout rolkses bein‘ kilt ‘round

whar us stayed. ~ometi~:aes dere w~s talk ‘bout devilment a long ways o:Cf. De mostest troubles us knowed. ~bout was on 1e Jim Smith
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plantation. Dat sho was a big old place wld/heap o~ slaves on

it.	Dey says dat rightin‘ didn‘t ‘mount to nothin‘. Marse Jim Smi.t~ii got to be miguty rich and. he lived to be an old man. He died out widout never gittin1 married. .~‘o1kses said a nigger boy dat was his son was willed heaps 01 dat propity, but ~olk8es beat