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	I saids yea. W*11, ~ ha» ther&, ehe repl%‘«t, So at the ejçe o? six I ~~t*trted ny life sa an ix4opeMsnt sbws. fl“om than on s~r lits as it slave

waS a re~iti ~jn of hard work, poor quartsrs and board. We had no beds &t that tine, wt~ just “bunked“ ~ the floor. i: tact ~. bl~kt nid IMflfB ItO ~Î~)At t sat by the firoplaoe durlrtg the long cold tdr)its ~ the wintn,

	\\	~y uißtrns had separated me trari all ny family hut one brother

with sweet words, but that posa ne dropped after site reached her place.

Shortly alter t had ~ai~ then, ehe narried a northern ran t~ tho~nte of J»vid Eilt. ~tt tiret he was very nice to us, but he grtdtMly aoquind

a i~oan eat overbe~ ring narinûr toward us, I rater one incident that t dontt 11ko to roetoetber. ()r~e of the w*aen slaves had been very sio4nd she ne unable to work just tts fast as he tizw~ght sis ou~tt to. lie het~t driven her all day with no‘~ results, That nLjtt after eoe~pletoin~ç our ~rk he called us aU teg.th.r. Us rade nid hold s light, while ho t±~rd her and then trade one of t e elans pour salt wai;er on her bleodinc back, )~r innoMs turn yet at that sitht.

	~ ~ At t:. ~.‚~trs.n~ of the Civil War I S still at this place so a slave, it jooke*i at the tiret of the w as if the south would wüt, se toit et the big. battles were won by the SouTh. This was because we elans stayed at hone aM tended the fartas amt kept their ittlin,

	~\	‘2e eliminate this solid support of the South, the ~sncipatian Act was passed, freeing all elans. ~oøt of tete SIUVOS were so &W%OrSI* they did not realise they were tree. The planten knew this nd as Kentucky never seoteded fron the Unten, they would scud elan into tentueky frein other states in the south and hire the out to plantations.

p* thase rassis I did zwt rouI ~so that ~: as free untill 1804, I irinedittely nsàlnd to Tian a17 and jotn the tion Arqr and e~r bnthn and t went te