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“Marse James went wid. oi~ Colonel Rion. They say he ~ot shot but No, bless Godi

Narse Clarence. He went wid Captain Jim I~Iacfie, went through it all and didn‘t get a scratch. Next was ~ss Jesse. Then come Marse Horace, and Miss Nina. Us ohillun. all played together. ~iarse Horace is livin‘ yet and is a fine A. R. P. preacher of de Word. Miss Nina a rich lady, ~ot plantation but live ‘InonC de big bugs in Winnsboro. Shø married Mr. Castles; ~he is a widow now. He was a good miii, but he dead n~vr.

	“De one I minds next, is Charlie. I nussed him. He married Colonel Province‘ s daughter . Dat ‚ s all I can eall to mind ‚ right now.

	Itgourse de white folks I b‘longs to, had more slaves than I got

fingers and toes; whole families of t~~em. De carpènter and de blacksmith on de place made de bedsteads. Us had good wheat straw mattresses to sleep on~ cotton quilts, spreads, and cotton pillows. No trouble to sleep but it was hard to hear dat white overseer say at day break : ‚ Let me hear them foots hit de floor and dat befo‘ I go~ Be livelyL Hear me?‘ A~d you had to answer, ‘Yas sah‘ ‚ ‘ he ‘d move on to de nex‘ house • I does ‘member de parts of de bed, was held together by wooden pins. I sho‘ ‘members datL

	“fla!rn13:y :~arriett was de cook. I didn‘t done no work but ‘tend to de chillun and tote water.

	‘tl~oney? Go ‚ way from here~ bo s s ~ Lord ‚ no s ir ‚ I never s aw no money.

What I want wid it anyhow?

	“How did. they feed us? Had better things to eat then, than now and more different kind of somethin‘s. lis had pears, ‘lasses, shorts, middlings of de ~Sst, corn bread, and all kinds of milk and vegetables.
bullets couldn‘t kill hirn.
Hirn corned back.
Then come