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	Project ‚ 1~85-~(i)		Reduced from,__~word8
	Prepared by Annie Ruth Davis		Rewritten by
	Place, Marion, S.C.		____________________
	Date, January 14., 193e		pige J  ~  ~ jÇ 22



most all de way en den all dat part down to de bottom, dey just left it loose to do de cuttinwid. Ye8, honey, dem kind of whips was made out of pretty leather like one of dese horse whips. Yes,mam, dat been how it was in slavery t ime •

	“Yankeesi Oh, I hear folks speak bout de ‘~ankees plunder-. in through de country plenty times. Hear bout de Yankees gwine all bout stealin white people silver. Say, everywhe‘ dey went en found white folks wid silver, dey would just clean de place up. Dat de blessed truth, too, cause dat e xactly what I hear bout dem. ~

	“Lord, pray Jesus, de white people sho been mighty proud to see dey niggers spreadin out in dem day3, SO dey tell me. Yes,mam, dey was glad. to have a heap of colored people bout dem cause white folks couldn‘ work den no more den dCy can work c3.ese days like de colored people can. Reckon dey love to have dey niggers back yonder just like dey loves to bave

.	dem dese days to do what dey am‘ been cut out to do. You see, dey would have two or three women on de plantation dat was good breeders en dey would bave obillun pretty regular fore freedom come here. You know, some people does be right fast in . catchin ohullun. Yes‘ um, . dey must been bless wid a pile of dem, I say, en every colored person used to follow up de same name as dey white folks been hear to. „