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baru, eggs, chicken, and other good things we had at that dinner. Then after the dinner he spoke to all Of US and~ said, ‘You have nowhere to go, nothin‘ to live on, but go out on ~ other plaxitation arxi build you some shacks.‘
ttlie gave them homes and did not charge ax~y rent.

He bought naiis and lumber for them, but he would not build the houses. Some stayed with hirn for fifteen years; some left. He gave them cows to milk. He said the children must not perish.

t~Marster was a mighty good man, a feelin‘ man. He

cried when s~ome of his slaves finally left hirn. Mother and father stayed ti 11 they go t a plac e of their own . I waited on him as long as he lived. I loved him as well as I did my daddy. I drove for him and he kept me in his house with him. He taught rite to be honest, to tell the truth, and not to steal ai~thing.

	~\Vhen freedom came marster gave us a place for a school building and furnished nails and gave the lumber for the floors. He instructed them in building the windows. Re was goin‘ to put his sister Jenette McAllister in as teacher • She had married Jim ~cAllister at the Eluff Church, right at the lower part of the Averysboro Battleground where some of the last fightin‘ between the North and South was