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we is free . ~ $he said ‚ ‘Hush, or I wi 11 put the hickory on you.t I then went to grandma, the one I called mammy and threw my arms ar oand her ne ek and sai d ‚ ‚ Manur~y we are free, what doe s it mean? ‚ and mammy ‚ who was grandma ‚ sai~1 ‚ ~‚ You hush. sich talk, or I will knock you down wid a loom stick.‘

	°M~rster was contin‘ then, and he had the paper in• his hand and was cryin‘. Re caine to the door and called grandma and said, ~ are free, free as I am, but I want you to stay on.. Lf you go off you will perish. If y~ou. stay ou now the crop is planted and work it, we will divide.‘ Marster was Cryin.‘ ~J said, ~I do not own you ai~r longer.‘ Re told her to get the horn and blow it. It was a ram‘s hcrn. She blew twice for the hands to conie to the house.

	“They were workin ‚ in the river lowground about a mile or more away. She blew a long blow, then another. Marster told her to keep b1owin~. After awhile all the.

slaves corne home; she had. called them all in. M~rster niet them at the gate ‚ and to Id them to put all the mules up, all the hoes and plows, that th~ were all free. Re invited all to eat dinner. Re had five women cooking. He told them all he did not want them to leave, but if they were going they must eat before. they left. He said he wanted everybody to eat all. he wanted, and I remember the