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took sick and die, ‘cause he wasn‘t touched wid a bullet nor de life slashed out of him wici a sword?

	“Well, my pa b‘longin‘ to one man and nty rnanu~ty b‘longin‘ to another, four or five miles apart, caused some confusion, mix-up, and heartaches. # I~r pa have to git a pass to corne to see my mammy. He come sometimes widout de pass. Patrollers catch him way up de chimney hidin‘ one night; they stripped him right befo‘ mammy and give him thirty-nine

lashes, wid her cryin‘ and a hollerin‘ louder than he did..

	“Us lived in a log house; handmade bedstead, wheat straw n~attres~,


cotton pillows ‚ pi enty coverin‘ and pi enty tp eats ~ ich ‚ as it was • Us never git butter or sweet railk or coffee. Dat was for de vthite folks but in de surr~ner time, I minds de flies off de table wid the peafowl feather brush and eat in de kitchen just what de white folks eat; them was very good eatin‘s I‘s here for to tell you. Ail de old slaves end them dat worked in de fiela,got ratio~is and de ehillun were fed at de kitchen out—house. what did they git? I ‘members they got peas, hog meat, corn bread, ‘lasses, and butternilik on Sunday, then they got greens, turnips, taters, shallots, couards, and beans through de week. They were kept fat on them kind of rations.

	ttDe fact is I can‘t tmember us ever had a doctor on de place;


just a granny was enough at child birth. ~~iave women have a baby one day, up and gwine ‘round de next day, singin‘ at her work lak nothin‘ unusual had happened.

	“Did I ever git a whippin‘? Dat I did. How many times? More than I can count,~ifingers and toes. what I git a whippin‘ for? Oh, just one thing, then another. One !time I bre~c a plate while washin‘ dishes