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dey‘d go no‘th. Dey said dat der wuz one day at Smithfield dat three hundret slaves wuz sold. on de block. Dey said dat pe op le s came from fer an ~ near ‚ eb en from New‘ Orleans ter dem slave sa.les. 1) ey said dat way fore I wuz borned dey uster strip dem niggers start naked ant gallop ‘em. ober de square so dat de buyers could see da~ ey warn‘t scared nor deformed.
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	t~Wniie I could ‘member deytd sell de mamrnies ‘w~j

from de babies, an‘ dere wuzn‘t no cryin‘ ‘bout it whar de niarster would know tbout it nother . V~hy? Well ‚ dey !d git beat black an‘ blue, dat‘s wby. ~
	ttWtiz I eb er beat bad? ~o main ‚ I wuzn ‚ t •

	(Here the daughter ‚ a graduate of Cornell University, who was in the room listening came forward. ‘~Open your shirt ‚ manmw ‚ and le t the lady j udge for he rae 1±~ • ‚~ The old ladies eyes flashed as she sat bolt upright. She seemed ashamed ‚ but the daughter to oit the shirt off ‚ exposing the back and shoulders which wers marked as though branded with a plaited cowftide whip . Ther e was no doubt of that at all..)

	‘t]: wI1~ whapped pub1ic~, she said tonelessly, ‘for breaking dishes an‘ Ibeirat slow. I wuz at Mis‘ Càrrington‘s den ‚ an ‚ it ~iu~z j I s t tfor e de close ‘ de war • I ~z in
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