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us what to do to be saved. I ‘member he lined us up on 3~ordan‘s bank and. we suns behind him.

.	De partrollers watch de slaves who were out at night. ir dey have
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a pass dey were airight. If not dey would get into it. De patrollers

whip dem and. carry dem home.

	On Saturday afternnon dey wash de clothes and. stag around. On Sun-. day dey go to church. On Christmas day we did not work and dey make a nice meal for U8. We sometimes shuck corn at night. We pick cotton plenty.

	lNhen . we were chillun me other brudders e.nd Live sisters played marbles together.

	I saw de blue jackets, dat‘s what wé called de Yankee soldiers. When we heard of our freedom we hated it because we did not knowii~hat it was for and did not know where to go. De massa say we could stay as long as we pleased.

	De Yankee soldier asked my father what dey wuz all doing around der and that day were free. But we did not know where to go. We stayed on wid de massa. for a long time after de war wuz over.

	De flu KLux Klan wuz pretty rough to us and dey ~hip us. Der was no school for us colored people.

‚	I wuz nearly 20 when I first took up with my first woman and lived with her 20 years den I marry my present wife. I married her in Alabama and Elder Worthy wuz de preacher. We had seven chillun, all grandchillun are dead. I ~ don‘t know where dey all are at excepting me daughter in Steuben.ville and she is a widow. She been keepin‘ rooms and wash a little for her living.

	~	I didn‘t hear much bout de politics but I think Abraham Lincoln done pretty well. I reckon ~efferson Davis did the best he knowed how. Booker