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	“My brother came to see us once when slavery was over. He was grown up. My master wasn‘t going to ]~t him see us and he took up his gun. My rn~tress said he should leb hinisee us. My brother gave me a little coral ring. I thought j_t i~s the prettiest thing I ever saw.

~	‚‘J. made my sister bave. I took a roiling pin to make her go and she finally left. They didntt have any more business with us than you have right now.

	ttI remember when Yankee s~ldiers came riding through the yard. I was scared

and ran away crying. I can see them now. ~heir swords hung at their sides and their horses walked proud, as if they walked on their hind legs. The thaster was in the field trying to hide his money and guns and. things . The so 11 1ers said ‚ ‘We won ‘t hurt you ‚ child . ‚ It made me feel wonderful.

	“What I call t‘~~e Ku Klux ùere those people who met at night and if they heard anybody saying you was ‚ they wou]d take you out at night a nd wh ip you. They were the pl~tation o~ner~. I never saw thera ride, but I heard about them and what they d Id • M~r master used to t e 11 us he wie hod he knew who the Ku Kiuxers were. But he knew, all right, I used to wait on table and I heard t1~ni taling. t Gonna lynch another nigger törti ght~‘

	“The s laves trie d to get s ohoo Is ‚ but they didn‘ t get any~ Final ly they s tarted‘ a few dohooLs iii li ttle log cabins • But we children ‚ my si s ter and I, never went to school.

	nI married William L. Dav±~on, when I was thirty-tv~ years old. That was after I left the plantati on • I never had o ompany there • I had to !2~‘2a. I have only one grandchild still living, ~1illa May Reynolds. She taught school in City Grove, Tennessee. $he‘s married now.

	~	nI thought Abe Lincoln was a great man. What little I know about him, I always thought he was a great man. He did a lot of good.

	“Us kids always used to sing a ~ongz “Goima ~iang Jeff Davis to a sour apjie


tree as we go niarchin‘ hoene . V ~ didn‘t know v*~ at it meant at the time.