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Den de Yankees corne~~ I heard dem beat de drum. Marster tole us we wus free but mother an‘ father stayed on with iviarster ~ He promised ‚ ein sumptin ‚ but he g ive ‚ em i~• When de crop ~n~s housed dey 1eft~

	“Father and mother went to Hench Stallings‘ plantation and stayed there one year. Then they went to Jim Webbs farm. I don‘t remember how long they stayed there but round two years. They moved about an‘ about among the white folks till they died. They never owned any property. They been dead ‘bout thirty years.

	“I ri~rried Sidney Arrington. He has been dead. six years las‘ September.

	“I am unable to d o any kind of wo rk . Iv~r arm is mighty

weak.

	“I know slavery wus a bad thing . I don ‚ t have to think anything about it. . Abraham Lincoln wus the first of us bein ‚ free. I think he wus a man of God. I think Roosevelt is all right man. I belcrngs to the Penticostial HolUne~s Church.
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