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NMarse Dick, Marse Beckwith‘s son used to go fishin‘ with me.

Wünce we ketched. a fish so big lt tuk three men to tote it home, Yes su1~, we always had. p1ent~to eat. What‘d I like best? Corn‘~one, ham, bacon, chickens, ducks and possum. My mammy had hur own garden. In de suinaiah rn~n folks weah overalls, and. de womins weah cotton and all of us went barefooted. In de winter we wore shoes made on de plantashun. I wuzn ‚ t married ‚ tu af‘tah I come up North to Ohio.“

	“Der wuz Marse Beckwith ‚ mighty mean ol ‚ devel; ~ Miss Lacy ‚ his wife, and de chull~ms, Miss Manda, Miss Nan, and Ma~se Dick, thid the other son wuz killed in der war at Belmont. Deir sous‘ wiiz big and had two stories and. porticoes arid den Marse‘Beckwitb owned land. with cabins on ‘ein whar de slaves lived.“

	“No euh, we didn‘t hab no driver, o],‘ Marse dun his own drivin‘. He was a mean ol‘ debel and whipped his slaves of‘n and hard. He‘d make ‘em strip to the waist •thén he‘. lash ‘ein with his long black~.. snake whip. 01‘ Marss he‘d. whip womin same as men. I member seem‘ ‘im whip my mammy w~nce. Marse Beckwith used. the big smoke houe‘ for de jai~ I neber see no slaves sold but I have seen ‘em loaned and traded of f,$l

	u ~ member one time a slave named Tom and his wife ‚ n~‘ mammy an‘ me tried to run • away ‚ but s ketched and. brung back. O]. ‚ Marse whipped Toni and my mammy and den sent Tom off on a boat.“

	“One da~ a whi t e maz~ toI ‚ us der wuz a war and sum day we ‚ d. be free.“

“I neber heard of no‘llgion, baptizing‘ ‚ nor God, ~ nor Heaven,

~	d.e Btble nor education down on de plantashun, I gues‘ dey didn‘t hab

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