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of their other girl. They lived in a two-story freine house that was surrounded by an oak grove on the road leading from Franklin, Nc~rth Oarolina, to Clayton, Georgia. Hard Sellars was the carriage driver, and while I am sure Marse George must have had an overseer, I don‘t remember ever hearing anybody say his name.

	“Really, Miss, I couldn‘t say just how ‘big that plantation was, but I am sure there must have been at least four or fivehundred acres in it. One mighty peculiar thing about his slaves was that Marse George never had more than 99 slaves at one time; every time he bought one to try to make it en even hundred,
a slave died. This happened so trying to keep a hundred or more, long as he did that, there warn‘t his slaves. His slaves had to be and there they had to work steady marn, Marse Tommy Angel was mighty his sister, was good as could be; mother to her sister, }Liss ~a‘1ine Tommy was too hard on lier.

	“I heard some talk as hard. in the field all day and come whipped for mighty small offenses. tied hand and foot over a barrel and or cat-o‘~nine tails lash. They had
often, I was told, that he stopped and held on to his 99 slaves,. and any more deaths than births among in the fields when the sun rose, until the sun went down. 0hZ Yes, mean to his slaves, but Miss Jenny, that is the reason she gave my ~ellars; because she thought Marse


to how after the slaves had worked to the house at night, they were Marse Gecrge would have them would beat them with a cowhide, a jail in Franklin as far back