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	WPÂ lU Ohio	Muskingum County jf
	By Albert I Dugan	iistrict 4&~
	.	Topic 240 - Ex-slaves
	c~	‚	Ben Brown
	\i		Ex-slave - 100 years
			Keen St., Zanesville, Ohio.
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	Ye s suh I wuz a si ave ~ in Vag inyah, Aivainaul (Albermar le ) oouirby an‘ I didn‘t have any good life, I‘m telliÙ‘ ~ dat~ It wuz a tough life. I don‘t know how old I am, dey never told me down dere, but the folks here say I‘m a hunderd yeah old an‘ I speot dats about right. My fathah‘s naine ~niz Jack Brown and‘ my ~iA&~flIfl~tS Nellie Brown. Dey wuz six of u~ chillun, one sistah Hanna~a an‘ three brothers, Jim, Harrison, an‘ Spot. Jim wuz de oldes an‘ I wus next. ~Ve ~ born on a very lawge plantation an dey wuz lots an‘ lots of
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other‘ slaves, I don‘t know how many. De log cabins what we liveon both sides

de path make it look like a town. iviastah‘s house wuz a big, big onean‘ had big brick chimneys on de outside. It wuz a frame house, brown, an‘ set way back from de road, an‘ behind dat wuz de slaves‘ quarters. ~ De niastah, he wuz Fleming Moon an‘ dey say he wuz cap‘n in de wah of 1812. De missy iin.iz Parley Moon and dey had one son an fouh daughters.

	Ail us chillyn an mammy live in a log cabin dat wuz lauge enuf foh us an we sleep in good beds, tall ones an‘ low ones dat went undaneath, trundies dey call ‘ein, and de oovahs wuz comfohtable. De xnarnrnies did de cookin. We et cohn bread, beans, soup, cabbage an‘ seine othah vegtubles, an a little meat an fish, not much. Cohn cake wuz baked in de ashes, ash-cake we call ‘em an‘ dey wuz ~‚ood and sweet. Sometimes we got wheat bread, we call dat “seldom bread“ an‘ cohn bread wuz called “common“ beoos we had it ev‘ry day. A boss mammy, she looked aftah de eatins‘ and believe me nobuddy got too much.

	De meat house wuz full of smoked po‘k, but we only got a little piece now an‘ den. At hog kuhn‘ time we built a big fiah. an put on stones an‘

when dey git hot we throw ‘ein £n a. hogshead dat has watab in it. Den rnoah hot