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daddy after he had ruade lt . M~r father went to Steven Covington ‚ Marster ‘ ~ bro ther, and to Id him about it, ana his brother Stephen made him gib father his meat back tous.

	‚t My rnissus ~~iz kind to me ‚ but Mars . . Torn wuz the bu~~r. It vp~iz . a mighty bit plantation. I don ‚ t know how many slaves wuz on it, there were a lot of dem do‘. Dere were overseers two of ‚ em. One wuz named Bob Covington and the other Charles Covington. They were colored men. I rode with them. I rode wid ‘em in the carriage sometimes. De carriage had seats dat folded up. Bob wuzoverseer in de .~ field, and Charles w‘uz carriage driver. All de plantation wL1z fenced in, dat l.a all de fields, wid rails; de rails wuz ten feet ong. We drawed water wid a sweep and pail. De well wuz in the yard. De mules for the slaves wuz in town, dere were none on the plantatIon . Dey had ‚ em in town; dey waled us tim~ dé. chicken crowed, and we went to work just as aeon as we could see how to make a lick wid a hoe.

	‚t ‘t~awd, you ~ better not be caught wid a book in yor han‘. If you did,. you were sold. Dey didn‘t ‘low dat. I kin read a littlé, but I Cantt write. I went to school after slavery and learned to read. We didn‘t go to school but three or tour week a year, and learned to read.

~ ~ “Dere wu4z no cthirch on the plantation, a~. ~ were