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CH~Ri.2~ AUiTIN
50? South Bloodworth Street, Raleigh, N.C.

	t‘ I wus borned in the year 1852, July 27. I wus born in Granville County, sold to a slave speculator at

ten ~re~s old and carried to southwest, Georgia. i belonged to ~amue1 idoward. His dau~:hter took me to Kinston, North Carolina and I stayed there until I wus sold. 3he married a ma:! named Bill Erown~ and her name wus Julia Howard 3rown. i~it>T Lather wus named Paul howard and my mother wus named Choflie ~ My old missus wus named Folly howard.

‘1JoJan Richard Keine from Danville, Virginia bought me and sent me to a plantation in Georgia. ~e only had a white overseer there~ He and his wife and children lived on the

plantation. We had slave quarters there. 3laves were bought up and sent there inchains. $ome were chained to

each oth~r by the legs, some by the arms. They called the leg chains shackles • I have lived a hard ~life . I have seen mothers sold away from their babies and other chiidrčn, and they cryin ‚ when she ‚ left. I have seen ~ husbands sold from their wives, and wB~es sold from their husbands.

	~‘Abraham Lincoln caine through once, but none of us knew who he wus. ~ He wus just the raggedest man you ever saw.





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