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Ex-‘~$1ave Story

An interview with Viney Baker 78. of S. Harrington Street, Raie 1gb.
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	tti~T mammy wuz Hannah Murry an ‚ so fur as I kr~ow I ain‘t got no father, do‘ I reckon dat he wua de plantation stock nigger . I wuz borned in Virginia as yo ‚ raought say ter my xnarster Mr. S. L. Allen.
	tt~j~ moved when I wuz little ter Durham County whar we fared bad. We ain‘t had nothin‘ much ter eat an~ ter w ‘ar • He had a hundert slaves an‘ I reckon five ~ hundert acres o‘ lant. He made us wuck hard, de little ones inclUded.

	“One night I lay down on de straw mattress wid rr~ rx~nw ‚ au ~ de ‘ ‘ nm ~ I woked up ant she wuz gone. Then I axed tbout her I fin ~s dat a speculator corned dar de night before an‘ wanted ter buy a t0~. Dey had come an‘ got r~r marnrr~r widou~t wakin‘ nie up. I has always been glad somehow dat I wuz asleep.

	“Dey aster tie me ter a tree ant beat me till de blood run down my back, I doan tmether ~othint dat I done,