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jail on the plantation. We were ~ not taucht to read or write, we were never told our age.

	“We went to the white church on Sunday, up in the slave gallery where the slaves worshipp~c1sometimes. The gallery was overcrowded with ours and slaves from other plantations. My mistress told me that there was, once an old colored man who attended, taking his seat up in the gallery directly over the pulpit, he had the habit of saying Amen. A member of the church said to him, ‘John, if you don‘t stop hollowing Amen you can‘t cone to church‘ ; he got so ftill of the Holy Ghost he yelled out ~nen upon a venture, the congregation wa~ so tickled with him and at his antics that they told him to come when and as often as he wanted.

	“During my slave days only one slave ran away, he was n~r uncle, when the Yankees came to Virginia, he ran ~vay with them. He was later captured by
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the sheriff and taken to the county jail. The Doctor went to the court house,

after which we never heard nor saw my uncle afterwards.

	!~I have seen and heard white~cappers, they whipped several colored men of other plantations, just prior to the soldiers/ drilling to go to war.

	“I remember well the day that Dr, Nelluin, just as if it were yesterday, that we went to the court house to he set free. Dr. NelIu.ta walked in front, 65 of us behind him. When we got there the sheriff asked him if they were his slaves. The Dr. said they were, but not now, after the papers were signed we all went back to the plantation. Some stayed there, others went away. I came to Baltimore and I have never been back since. I think I was about 17 or 18 years old when I came away. • I worked for Mr. Marshall ‚ a flour merchant, who lived on South Charles Street, getting ~6.OO pe~ month. I have been told by both white and colored people of Virginia who Imew Dr. Neihun, he lost his mind?