old marster, he let Miss Rachel - dat was his wire - have me fer de house. She lamed me how to cook an‘ wait on de table, an‘ I declar‘, she call me her vei~~ sr~iartest gal2 Sometimes, tho‘, I wouldn‘ coxiie right quick la.k when she ring de bell fer me, an‘ she‘d start ringin‘ it harder an‘ harder. I knowed den she was mad. When I‘d get dar, she ‚ d fuss at me an ‚ ‘ n ~iy dress up an ‚ wimp me - not hard ‚ cause

she wa‘nt so strong - but I‘d hollers~iie.	*

~.	“Dey had a nigger woman to teach all de house darkies bow


~~to read an‘ write an‘ I lamed how to sign my name an‘ got as fur as b-~a-k~-e-r in de Blue Back Speller.

L_______ “Marss Conley an‘ ~4j~g Rachel had fo‘ chullun, Miss Mary, Miss Alice, MissWillie, an‘ Marss Andrew, an‘ when de tiras coins, dey give me to Marss A~idrew.~. ~He ‘ led me an‘ de rest out t o Texas

~har he thought be would go an‘ git rich. We neber stayed long,

~9‘ ‚ fer lôts of de niggers runned ‘way tO de Free State an ‚ Marse
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\	~	ti~r~ didn‘ lak dat.
	\•~r~‘	~	   “It was when he brought us back to Huntsville dat I was
		~! sol‘ •	All de white folks was a gjt~b~ scared dey was gwineter lose

~	dey slaves an‘~sre. was a pow‘ful lot er nigger sellin‘ goin‘ on den.
I\__—_ . ~


Marse :Ewing bought me frum him an‘ car‘ied me to his plantation near

Aberdeen, Mississippi. Den I started to workin‘ in defiel‘ wid de
rest of de hands. De oberseer dat we bad was right mean to us when