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	“Mista ~‘oe Medley and his wife, Mies Addie~ was my young master and flhistrésa. Old master sohn Medley~ done brung us from Kentue~ when he moved from there to Cape County. I was jest a baby den. I neyer knowed nothin‘ ‘bout ny daddy.

“De white folks had a big loghouse. • It was an awful big house,

with a big porch on de north side. They was some cedar trees in de yard

and some fruit trees. D.y was a big log barn and split rail fences all	~

around. Us littl~~ tellers had to help carry ii de wood, and help do de	~

feeding. Dey had lots of hossee, cows, and pigs.	~

•~\ “DeT was a separate house for de spuming and weaving, Goss all our	~ clothes and shoes too, was imde on de pLacé. ~ssa was mighty good to ~.‚ his eullud folks • He neyer ‚ lowed none of ‚ en to be Bold and I ~n‘ t ~/‘~ recollect ever seeing anyone getting uihupped. No, we never had no gather— “\~S) in‘ s nor schools ‚ nor nuthing of the kind.

	~	«Massa had a tine big carriage and one Sunday he‘d take all de white (~ folks to church and de next Sunday, he put de cullud folks in de carriage ~

and send dem to church. Dat‘s how come us to be Catholics. W. ccme ail	~• T
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de way to Cape, to St. Vincent‘s Church, down by de river. W. liv.dawey	~

off der. in ~d8 backwoods and we didn‘t see mush of sojers-j.s‘ a few scat.‘ ~ • OOZft~ by 8it~1‘ de ~kirm1~shat. de Cape. When de war .n1$, we ~

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