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A~THOI~1Y DAWSON
Age 105
1008 E. Owen St.,
Tulsa, Okia.
			“Rim nigger, run,
	~	~	De Patterofl git you!
	~ ~3	Rim nigger ‚ run,
	~L~:‘ ‚	De Patteroll comel
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			“Watch nigger, watch~
De Patteroll trick you!
	.	Watch nigger, watch,
He got a big g~1‘1

	Dat one of the songs de slaves all knowed, and. de children do~mi on de “twenty acrest1 usea. to sing it when dey playing in de moonlight troun~ de cabins in d~e quarters. Sometime I wonder iffen de white folks didii‘t make dat song up so us niggers would keep In line.

	None of my old. Masterts boys tried to git away tcepting two, and. dey inst up wid. evil, both of tem.

	One of dem niggers was fotching a bull~tongae from a piece of new ground way at de back of de plantation, and. bringing it to my pappy to git it slmrped.. My pappy was d.e blacksmith.

	~	Dis boy got out in de big road. to walk in de soft sand, and long come a wagon wid. ~‚ white overseer and five, six, niggers going somewbar. Dey stopped. and~ told. dat boy to git in and. ride. Dat was de last anybody seen him.

	Dat overseer and. another one was cotched. after awhile, and. showed up to be und.ergroutid railroaders . Dey would t eke a bunch of niggers o ~ t own foi‘ some excuse, and on de way test pick up a extra nigger and show him wliar to go to git on de “railroad system.“ When de runaway niggers got to de North

dey h~d to. go in de arwy, and dat bolfrom our place got killed. He was a good. boy, but dey j est talked. him into it • Dem railroade:s was honest ‚ a~td dey

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