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in North Carolina even today. I doesntt remernbrr any play songs, tcause I was almost in prison. I couldn‘t play with any of the darkies and I d.oesn‘t re~ member playing in my life when I was a little girl ana when I got grown I d~ithi‘t want to. I wasn‘t hon~ry, I wasn‘t.nai~ed and. I got only five licks from the white folks in my life. Dey was for being such a big forgitful girl. I saw 1em sell niggers once. The only pusson I ever seen whipped at dat whipping post was a white man.

	~	I never got no learning; dey kept us from dat, but you know some of d.em darkie s learnt anyhow. We had. church in the heart of own or in~ the basement of some old. building. I went to the ‘piscopal church most all the time, till I got to be a Baptist.

	The slave s run away to the I‘Torth ~ caus e dey want ed. to b e free • Some of my family run away sometime and. dey d.ithi‘t catch tem neither. The pat— rollers t watched. the street s • But when d~ey caught any of mast ert ~ niggers without passes, d.ey jest locked. him up in the guard house and. master come down in the mawnint and git ‚ em out ‚ but dem patroller s bett er not whip one.

	I know when the War commenced and ended. Master Manley sent me from the Big House to the office about a mile away. Jest as I got to the office door, three men rid up in blue uniforms and said, “Dinah, do you have any milk in there?U I was sent down to the office for some beans for to cook dinner, but dem men most nigh scared me to aeath. They never did. go in dat office, but jest rid off on horseback about a quarter a mile and seem lak right now ‚ Yankee s fell out of the very si~‘, ~ cause hunc3.eds and hund.ed.s was everywhere you could look to save your life. Old. Mistress sent one of her gran&chillun to tell me to come on, and. one of the Yankees told. dat child, “You tell your grandmother she ain1t coming now and. never will come back there as a slave.“ Master was setting on the mansion porch. Dem Yankees come up on