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to see us. The slaves took herbs~ ~ found in de woods. Dat~ what I do now, Sir. I got some ~rbs right in ny kitchen now.

“When the Yankees come through I did not know anythiz~g

	about ~ ~ ~em till they got there. Jist like they were poppin up out of de ground. One of the slaves wuz at his master‘s house you know ‚ am5 he s i~ ‚ The Yat~kees are in Cheraw1 S ~ ;~. ~and ~ the~.~Yankees_are in~. town‘ . It didn‘ t s turb me at : tall. I wuz not afraid of de Yankees. I ‘member dey went to Miss ~mna‘s house, and went in de smoke house and emptied every barrél of‘lasses right in de floor and scattered de eracklings on de floor. I went dere and got some of ‘em.

MISS &nma wuz my missas. Dey just killed de chickins, hogs to o ‚ and old Jeff the dog ; they shot hint through the tho at.

:i: ‘member how his mouth flew open when dey shot him. One b~r ‚ em went into de tater • bank ‚and we chillun wanted to go

out dere . Mother uldnt t le t us • She wuz fraid uv ‚ em

	(f ttAbra1~ Lincoln freed us by the help of the Lawd, by

his help. Slavery wuz owin to who you were with. If you were with some one who wuz good and had some fee1~in‘s for you it did tolerable well; yea, tollerable weil.

	“We left the plantation soon as de surrender. We le? Hght off. We ~ent to goin‘ towards Fayetteville, North Carolina. We olinbed over fences ar~1 were just broke down