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He had a sing fur everyone he whupped. Marster growed up wid de niggers ant he did not like to whup ‘em. If dey sassed him hé would put spit in their eyes and say tflOW I recon you will mind how you sass me.
	tiWe had a lot o~ game and‘possums. When we had game

marster left de big house, and corne down an‘ et wid us.•‘ ~Jhen marster wantt off drunk on a spree he spent a lot of time wid de slaves. He treated all alike. His slaves were all niggers. Dere were no half~.white chilluns dere.

	“Marster would not let us work until we were thirteen years old. Den he put us to plowin‘ ~ soft lan‘, an‘ de men in rough lan‘. Some of de women played off sick an‘ went home an‘ washed an‘ ironed an‘ got by wid it. De oberseer tried to make two of ‘em go back to work. Dey flew at him an‘ whupped him. He told de marster when he come

home, marster said, ‘Did you ‘low dem women to whup you?‘ t t ‚ he replied ‚ den marster tole him if women e ould whup

him he dldntt want him. ~xt he let him stay on. His name vms Jack Rivers.. He ‘wus hired by marster. Marster Rivers did not have any slaves . Dere wus no jail on d e plantatiOn, case when er overseer whupped er nigger he did not need any jail~.

	“De black ~].ka better not be caught wid a book but one o‘ de ehilluns at our plantation, 1Y1~rster Peter Mitchell‘s