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	Slavery:	Local History and Dialect.	‚
		         ANDE~RSON CO. (Mildred Robetts)
	!i~~or~ of	d~e1~(a~e unicnown~.
	“I doesn‘t know how old I am, but I was a little girl when dat mari Linc~ freed us niggahs • My manmty neber tole us ~ our age,but I knows I ‘se plenty old, cause I feels like it.

	ttY~hen I was a liddle girl all of us was owned by Master Ball.~ Y~hen Lincurn freed us neggahs, wo wont on and libbed with Master Ball till us ohilluns was bout growod up. None of us was eber sold, cause we belonged to the Balls for always back as far as we could think.

	“Mammy worked up at the big house, but us ohilluns had to stay at de cabin. But I didn‘t berry much oare, aauso ole Miss had a liddle child jest bout my ago, and us played together.

ç ~ “The onliest time ole Miss eber beat me ~was when I caused Miss Nancy to get et up wit de bees. I tole her ‘Miss Nancy, do bees am s1eop, lets


:~ steal de honey.‘ Soon as she tetohed it, day flew all ober us, and it took
~	Mammy bout a day to get the stingers outen our haids. Oie Miss jest natually

‘; beat me up bout dat.	. L—e “One day they ~aooinated all de slaves but mine neber took atall. I

nebbor tole noboddy, but I jest set fight down by de fireplace and rubbed wood ashe s and juice that spewed outeri de . wood real hard ober de scratch. All de others was real sick and had the awfullest arms, but mine neber did eben hurt.“
	~	UNION CO. (Ruby Garten)

	( The se ~tw9 stories were told by ~rs • Heyburn as she remembered them frc~ her grandmother). . .

( “When the War was going on between the States a~id the Confederate