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most of the time at some other slave ownerb plantation an~i getting more homesick every day.

	1tThe second year after the surrender our rnarster and rnissus

1~,Ot Ofl their carriac:e ar~t went and looked up all the Négroes they heard of who ever ;.:elonged to them. Some who went off with

-t~he Yankees were never heard of again. Then marster and missus found any o±‘~ theirs they would say, ‘Well, carne on back homer‘ i~y father and mother, twouncles and thair farnhlies,moved back. Also Lorenza Brodie, and John ~3rodie and their families moved back. 3everal of the young men and women who once belonged to him came back. Some wereso ~g1ad to get back ti~ey cried, ‘cause fare had been.mighty bad part of the t~e theywere rambling around and they were hungry. When they got back marster would. say, .~Well you have come back home have you ‚ and the . Negroes would say ‚ ‚ Yes rrarster.t Most all spoke of them as missus and marster as they did before the surrender, and getting back home was the greatest pleasure of all. ~

	“Vie stayed with marster and mi3sus and went to their~ church, the Maple SprinL~s Baptist church, until they died.

	9Since the surrender I married ~Jarnes Anderson. I had four children, one boy and three ~iris~.

	UI think slavery was a mighty good thing for mother, father,

me and the other members of the family, and I cannot say anything .~t good for my old marster and missus, but I can only speak for those whose conditions I have known during slavery and since. For ~niyself arid them ‚ If will s ay again ‚ s lavery was a mighty g ood thing .„
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