Oklahoma Writers1 Project
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feeling less scared., and. the next day some of them walked up the ~angp1ank to ~et things off the plank and. off the deck.

	The deck was covered with things like they‘d found on the beach. Two—three hundred r~atives on the ship when they feel it move. They rush to the side but the plank was gone. Just dropDed lii the water when the ship moved
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	Folks on the beach started to crying an.d. shouting. The ones on the boat was wild with fear. Grandmother was one of them who got fooled, and she say the last thing seen of that place was the natives running up ana down the beach waving their arms and. shouting like they was mad. The boat men come up from below where they had been hiding and drive the slaves down in the bottom and. keep them quiet with the whiDs and. clubs.

	The slaves was landed at Charleston. The town folks was mighty mad tcause the blacks was driven through the streets without any clothes, and

drove off the boat men after the slaves was sold on the market, Most of that. load was sold. to the Brown plantation in Alabama. Grandmother was one of the bunch.

	The Browns taught them to work. Made clothes for them. Por a lo~ time the natives didntt like the clothes and try to shake them off. There was three Brown boys — John, Charley and Henry. Nephews of old Lady Hyatt who was the real owner of the plantation, but the boys run the place. The old. lad.y she lived in the town. Come out in the spring and. fall to see how is the plaaitation doing.

	She was a fine woman. The Brown boys and. their wives was just as good.. Would.n1t let nobody mistreat the slaves. Whippings was few and nobody get the whip ~ le ~ s he need it bad. They t each the young ones how to read. and write; sa.y it was good for the Negroes to know about such thirzgs...