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	“Dey hed 7S0 acres on de plantation. De Jemisons sold de plantation to my unc le after the surrender and I heard him say ever s o many t imes that it was 7~O acres. Der wuz bout 60 slaves on de plantation.. Dey work hard and late at night. Dey tole nie day were up fore daylight and in de fields tU dark.

	“I heard my znudder say dat the mistress was a fine woman, but dat de marse was rigied.

	ttDe white folks did not help us to learn to read or write. De furst

school I remember dat v~uz aocessbile was foh 90 days duration. I could only ~o when it W‘~Z too wet to work in de fields. I wuz bout 1 years when I went to de school.

	“Der ~wuz no church on do :~lantation. Couldn‘t none of us read. But after de surrender I remember de furt preacher I ebber heard. I remember de text. HjS name was Charles Fletcher. De text was “Awake thou dat sleepeth, arise from de dead and Christ will give you 1ifeL~‘ I remember of one of de baptizing. De men dat did it was Emanuel Sanders. ~is v~uz de dong dat dey sing: ~ “Beside de gospel pool, Appointed for de ppor.“ Dat is a 11 1 member of dat song now.

	ft I heard of de s laves running away to de north ‚ but I nebber knew one t~o do it. i~1y iuudder tole nie bout patrollers. Dey wou]d ketch de~laves when dey were out late and whip and thress dein. Some of de o ners would not stand for it and if de slaves would tell dé massa he might whip de patrollers if he could ketcii dem.

t, knowed one colored boy. He wuz a fighter. He wux six foot tall and over 200 pounds • He would not stand t o be whipped by de white man. Dey called

him Jack. B~s wus after de surrender. De white men could do ~othin‘ wid him.