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soldiers had gone south, the Yankee soldiers came through. There was a little negro slave boy living on the farm and ho had hoard quite a Lit about the Yankees, so one day they ~hppened to pass through where he could see them and he rushed into the houso and said, 1t~j5c Lulu, I saw a Yankee, and ho was a

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	¶t1 remember the slaves on my grandfather‘s farm. After they were freed

they asked him to keep them because they didn‘t want to leave. He~to1d them they could stay and one of the dauChters of the slaves was married in the kitchen of my Cf‘ s house • After the woJdin~ thej set supper for them. Some of the slave ownero were very good to their slairns; but some whipped them tintil t~ey made ~ash~s ~.n their backs and vrould put salt in the gas}ms.

CALLOWAY CO. (L. Cherry)

Stor~ofUncle~eor~p ~~‘s  acoio~i~.

	I wuz a slave bob de wa. My boss, de man dat I b‘long to, wuz 01e Man Vol Scruggs. He wi~z a race hoss man. He had a colod boy Law evy hoss dein days and a white man Law evy hoss, too. I ‘v~mz bawn rite here in Murry. My boss carrid me away frurn here. I thought s. heap uv him azid he though a heap uv me • ~ d rub do logs uv dem hosses and rode dem round to gib em ex~ise. I wuz jos a small hoy when my boss aarri~‘d me away from Murry. My boss carri~‘d me to Le~inton. I staid wid Oie Man Scruggs a long time. I jes don no how long. My boss carric3 me to his brother, Oie Man Finch Scruggs. He run a sto and I had to sweep de flo uv de sto, wash dishes and clean nives anf faiks evy day. Oie Man Finch Scruggs carrid my uncle up thar wen Oie Vol carrid me. 01e Man Finch Scruggs liv‘d at a little t own called Clintinvil on tuther side uv Lexinton. Wen 01e ~ian Vcl Scruggs marid, he take me away fr~ Olà Man Finch Scruggs and carrid. me to liv wid him. I wuz den wid my oie boss again.