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	Lees	. ‚J ‚	Ohio Guide ~ Special
			~x-~S1ave Stories	108~
			August 1?, 193?


JULIA WILLL‘~MS
f Supplementary Story)


	“Aft er de War deh had. to p ick their own 1 i‘ an seek homes.

	“Shuah, deli expected de 40 acres of lan‘ an mules1 but deh had to work foh d.ern.“

	“Shuah ‚ deh got paht of de ian but de shuah had to work foh it. “After de war deh had. no place to stay an den deh went to so many diffiimt places. Sonie of dem today don‘t have settled places to live.

	“Those owners who were good gave their ~laves Ian but de othahs jus turned de slaves loose to wander roun‘. Othahs try to fine out where dere people were and went to them.

	“One day I seed a man who was a doctor down dere, an‘ I says, ‘You doktah now? ‚ An says ‚ No ‚ I doan doktah no mow • ‚ I work foh hini once when I was slave ‚ few day s durin:de war • I say, ‘Meinb er that day you gonna lick me but you didn‘ ‚ you know I big woman an fight back . Now de war ovah and you ‘ t do dat now‘.

	“Slaves dithi get money unless deh work for it. • Maybe a slave he would work long time before he get any pay.“

	“LaIC you hire me an you say you go in to pay nie an then you don ‚ t • Lots of them hired slaves aftah de war and worked dein a long time sayin deli gwine

pay and then when he ask for nioney, deh drive him away instead of payin him.
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~ ~	“Yes, some of de slave* were force to stay on de plantation. I see how

sŒ~ie had to live.“ “They had homes for awhile but when deh wa~en‘t able to pay dere rent cause deh weren‘t paid, deh were thrown out or dere houses.“ Some of dem didn‘t know when deh were free till long time after de Wah.

. ~ ~ “When 1 were free, O;fl~ mornin I seed the mistress and she ask me would

~	~ I stay with her a couple years. I say, ‘No I gonna rind. mali people an go dore.‘