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blood all over the baby‘s dress. Missis came out, she say, “I‘ll hit you ni~gerS i~f you don‘t stop playing with horse.-shoes.“ The scar is on my head yet whar Celia hit me. I ain‘t played sinoe. Do you blame me?

	“Missis told her brother Sam one day to whoop me. Every time he hit me, I‘d hit him. I wan‘t feared then. I didn‘t know no better. Look like white folks soin‘ to have their way and nig~ers goin‘ to have theirs.

	U1 used to say I wish I‘d died when I was little. But now I thank

	Lord Pm here and I want to stay here as long as Lilly (my daughter)



	“Missis wanted all of us little niggers to call Kate, Mj~~j~‘ little daughter, Miss Kate. But missis say, tTThOy will call me old missis then“.

	“Kate had red hair. A little nigger boy say, ‘Looks Harriet, the town‘s on fire‘, I say git away from here nigger, I ain‘t goin‘ to have you makin‘ fun et my chil‘en.

	“Me and missis was goin‘ to a neighbor‘s house one day in a sleigh. The baby was wrapped up in a comfort (it had a hole in it) . The baby slipped out • I say, ‘ missis, you ‘ye lost that baby.‘

	“No, I haven‘t, Mis~1~ say. We stopped and shook the ooml»ort and John was gone. ‘Ain‘t that awful, Miss Mat?‘ We went back and found him a mile behind.“

	I asked Aunt ilarriet to sing. She s~.d, “I have to wait for the spex‘et to move me“. (s, Higgins~



BOYD CO. (cari F. Hall)

	It is probable that slave labor was more expensive to the white masters than free labor would have been. Beside having cost quite a sum a two.year old ne gro ohild brought about ~l, 500 in the s lave market, an adult negro, sound ~and strong, cost from $5,000 up to as high as ~25,OOO, or more. The master