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we gits o‘ de Rebs. Anyhow pappy says dat we is goin ‚ ter jine de Yankees0

	“We trabels ai]. night an‘ hid in de woods all day fer a iOflß time, but atter awhile we gits ter Doctor Dillard‘s place ‚ in Chowan County. I reckons dat we stays dar seberal days.

	“De Yankees has tooked dis placé so we stops ober, an‘ has a heap o‘ fun dancin‘ ~ sich while we am dar. De Yankees tells pappy ter head fer Ne~ Bern an‘ dat he will be took keer of dar, so ter New Bern we goes.

	“When we gits ter New Bern de Yankees takes de mules an‘ wagin, dey tells pappy something, an‘ he puts us on a

~	long white boat named Ocean Waves an‘ ter ~oanoke we goes.

	“Later I larns dat most o‘ de reffes‘ is put in James City, nigh ffew Bern, but dar an a pretty good crowd on Roanoke. Dar wuz aso a oie Indian Witch ‘oman dat I ‘mem bers.

	“Atter a few days dar de Ocean Waves comes back an‘ takes ail ober ter New Bern. M~r pappy wuz a shoemaker ‚ so he makes Yankee boots, an‘ we gits ~long pretty good.

	“I wuz raised in New Bern an.~ I lived dar till forty years a go when me ant ~y husban‘ moved ter Raleigh an‘ ‘ he‘s been daid a long time I has lived hyar ober since an‘

~ eben if ‚ en I is. e ighty-~one years old I can still outwuck nJy daughter an‘• de rest of dese youri~ niggers.“


~	refugees