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	UNo,~oZ you better not be caught tryin‘ to do sornethint

wid a book. Dey wou~1dteachyou wid. a stick or switdh. De slaves had secret prayer meetin‘s wid pots turned down to ~ kill de soun ‚ ‘ de singin ‚ • ‘~e sang ~ song, ‚ I am glad ~ ~. salvation‘s free..‘ Once dey heard us, nex‘ mornin‘ dei took us and tore our backs to pieces. Déy would say, ‘Are you free? ~Vhat were brou singin‘ about freedorn?~ While de niggers were bein‘ whupped they .said, ‘Pra~r, marster, pray.‘.
	“JJhe doctor carne to see us~ sometimes when we were

sick, but not after. People just h~d to do their own doctor-b in‘ .• Sometimes a man would take his patient, arid sit by de road where de doctor travelled, and ~then he come älong he would see hirn. Le doctor rode in a sully drawn by a hors~~ He had a routes one ~ to two territories.

	“When de white folics were préparing to go to de war they had big dinners and speakin‘.~ Dey tole what dey were goint ‘to do to Sherman and Grant. A lot of suchmen as Grant and Sherman andLincoin caine through de South in rags and were

L	at some o,‘ dese meetings, an‘ et de dinners~ When de white folks foun‘ it out ‚ dere wus some sick folks. Sometimes we go‘~ two days Christmas and two days July. When de nigger wus freed dey didn‘t kiiow where to go and what to ~do. It wus hard, but it has been hard since. From what de white folks, marster and missus tole us we thought Lincoln wus terrible. By what mother and father tole me I thought he wus all right. I think

: Røø~eveit wus put in by God to do the right thing~“


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