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	  . De slaves on our plantat Ion dId. not own der own garden.	Dey ate vegetables
	out of de big garden.	  .

. ~ In hot weather I wore gean pants and shirt. De pants were red color ai~1 ShiFt white, I wore heavy woolen clothes in de winter. I wore litùe britches wid. jacket fastened on. ï went barefooted in de ~urnxner.

	De mistress scold and. beat nie when I was pullin‘ weeds. Sometimes I pulled a cabbage 8tead. o~ weed. She would jump me and beat me. I can remember cryin‘. ~he told me she had. to learn me to be careful. ~ remember the massa when he
	went to war. He was a picket in an apple tree.	AYankee soldier spied ~m end
	shot him out of de tree.	  .

	I rn~inber Miss Ledig Humphries. She was~ a pretty girl and she had a sister Susie. She married a Mr. 0hemlain who was overseer. Der were Robert and Herbert Humphries. Dey were older dan ~e. Robert wu~ &bout 15 years old when de ~.r surrender.

	De one that xnarried Susie was de overseer. He was pretty rough. I don‘t remember any white neighbors round at dat time. ~

	Der were 450 acres o~ de plantat ion. I can ‚ t remember all de alaves ~ I know der were 80, odd slaves.

	Lot8 ot mornings I would go out hours fore daylight and w1~n it was cold my • teet would ‘mo 8t freeze . They all Ênéw dey had to get up in de mi‘ • De ~

	slaves all worked hard and late at night.	V I heard. some say that the overseer would take dem to de barn. I r~neniber V V

Tom Lewis. Then his massa sold h1~ to our massa he told him not to let the	V overseer whip him. Tbé overseer said he wo~tld whip him. One day Torn did. some- V,,

	‚ thi~, wrong. The overseer ordered him to de barn. Toni took his shirt o~t to	V V‘ ‚ ‚ . get ready for de whippin‘ V~d when te overseer raised de whip ~m gave hi~

one lick wid his tist and broke de overseer‘s neck.

	Den de massa sold Toa to a man by de name ot J~oeeph lletcher. H~ eta~ed with old. man fletcher tU he died.,
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