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olow killed her.~ He wus reported to de Freedman‘s Bureauo Dey caine, whupped de oversečr and put him in jail. Dey decided not to kill him, but made him furnish de children of de dead woman so much to live on. Dere wus a hundre& or i~iore niggers in de field When this murder happened.

	“We finally found out we were free and left. Dey let ‘me stay with Miss.Julia J~rown. I wus h~redto her. 3Iie lived in Dooley County, Georgle. I next worked with ~rs~ Dunbar after a!ter staying with Mrs. Brown four years. ~er name wus J~Ds~ Ldinnie Dunbar and she moved to Columbia, ~3outh Carolina takin‘ rue with her. ~ I stayed with her about ~ four y~ars. This wus the end of my maiden life. I married Isaac Austin of Richmond County, Georgje. He wus a native. of ~arrenton Cowty and he brought me from his h~me in Richmond County, Georgie to Warrenton ~d then from ~arrenton to RaleIgh. I had two brothers ~and thirteen sisters. I did general house work, and helped raise children during slavery, and right after de war. Then you had to depend on yourself to do for children. YOu had to doctor and care for them ycur-~ self. You just had to depend on yourself.

~	“Dey had 320 acres ~ cleared fields in ~eorgie and then de rice ~ fields, I just don‘ t know how many acres. I ‚ have seen jails f‘or slav~s. Dey~ had a basement for a jail in Georgie and a guard . at de holes in ~ it.
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