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	tiThere was classes of slavery. Some of the ha1f~ white and beautiful young women who were used by the marster and his men friends or who was the sweetheart of. the marster only, were given special privileges. Some o:e ‘em worked very little. They had private quarters well fixed up and had a great influence over the marster. Some of these slave girls broke up families by getting the marster so enmeshed in their net that his wife, perhaps an older woman, was greatly neglected. Mother and grandmother tole me that they were not allowed to pick their husbands.
	‘SMother tole me that when she becariie a woman at

the age o±~ sixteen years her marster went to a slave owner near by anI got a six~foot nigger man, almost an entire stranger to her, and told her she must marry him. Her marster read a paper to them, told them they were man and wife and told this negro he could take her to a certain cabin and go to bed. ‚ This was done without getting her consent or even asking her about it. Grandmother said that several different men were put to her just about the same as if she had been a cow or sow.. The slave owners treated them as if they had been common animals in this respect.

..	“Mother said she loved my father before the surr~e~er and just as soon as they were free they married. Grandmother was named L&ina Williams • She belonged to a planter