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241-Wayr~e Holiday, Ex-slave Monroe County
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Mrs. Richard Koib





good to us an‘ so was Marse Torn and Marse Ben, an‘ Miss Maria an‘ all. When de Cunel fust come to Mississippi he bought a plantation in de prairies an‘ lived dere for a while. But later he ‘cided to build him a house in town so he got my pa to he‘p him build it an‘ it was one of de purtiest houses in Aberdeen. It look jes lak it allus did to me now. Co‘se dey is worked on it several times since‘ den, but dey ain‘t ehangd it at all.

	“My raarr~ay did de cookin‘ for de white folks dere. Dey all thought a lot of her • I never knowed much wh~: t y‘ ry was t botit ‚ to tell de truf. De .~Olk8 never tréated Us wrong an‘ ChUI1UU in dem days didn‘ get to run aroun‘ lak dey do today an‘ we didn‘ get to hear no gossip ‘bout de other niggers. Since we didn‘ live in no quarters we didn‘ hear nQthin. Our folks never said nOthin‘ ‘cause day was very well sati8fied lak dey was. We never hear of ho whuppin‘ 8 ‚ or runaways either, ‚ tu afte ‚ de War an‘ when we got older.

	“I ‘member de War tho‘. Marse Tom, he went tust, wid de Vim Dorns. He was made a capt‘in or somethin‘ ‘caüse he was so brave. He fought long wid de fust an‘ was one of de fust to get hit. Dey brui~ his body all de way from Richmond, or Virginny, I fergit which, and lawzy, if de Ounel an‘ de Miss ‘ take on