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The white children and me saw him out at the railroad. ~e were settin‘ and waitint .&~ s.eeh~. He said he wus huntin‘ his peop1e~ and dat he had lost all he had. Dey give him so~‘nethin‘ to eat and tobacco to chew,~:nd he went on. ~3oon we heard he ~vus in de White House then we knew who it wus come through. ViTe knowed den it wus ~braharn Linco1n~

	~	‚ ~‘~e children stole eggs and sold ‘em dunn‘ slavery. 7ome 0±‘ de white men bought ‘ein. They were Irishmen and they would not tell on us. Their names were Mulligan, Flanagan ~nd .uugan. They wore good c‘othes and were funny mens.

£hey called guns flutes.	‚ . ~ . ‚ “Boss tole us Abraham Lincoln wu~ dead and we were

still slaves. Our boss man bought black cloth and made us wear it for mourning for Abraham Lincoln and tole us that there would not be freedom. ~e stayed there another year

after freedom. A lot 0~ de niggers kriowed nothin‘ ‘cept what missus and marster tole us. What dey said wus just de same asde ~awd had spoken to us.

	.	~Just after de surrender a nigger woman who wus bad, wus choppiri‘ cotton at out plantation in Georgie. John ~ïoodfo~ wus de main overseer and his son-miD-law WUS a over~ seer. Dey had a colored man who dey called a nigger driver. De nigger driver tole de overseer de woman wus bad. De over~ seer cane to he~, snatched de hoe from her and hit her. The