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	u My Marster went to de old war arid was a major. He had brass but~

tons, butterflies on his shoulders, and all dat, when he cone back.

	t, De Yankees come. Fust thing they look for wa~ money. They put a

pistol right in my forehead and say: ‘I got to have yoi~n‘ money, where is it?‘ Dore was a gal, Caroline, who had so~ money; they took it away from 1Ler. They took de geese, de chickens and all dat was worth takin‘ off de Place ‚ stripped it • Took all de meat out de sraokehoitse, corn out de crib, cattle out de pasture, burnt de gin~~house and cotton. V~hen they left, they shot some cows and hogs and left them lying right dore. Dore was a awful smell round dore for weeks after.

	~	t, Somethin‘ d‘rected me, when I was free, to go work whore I was born, on de Martin place. I married Mary Douglas, a good~lookin‘ wench. A Yankee took a fancy to her arid she went off wid. de Yankee. ~he stayed a long time ‚ then come back ‚ but I ‘d done got ~‘eacher Rice to marry me to L~uvinia then. Die second wife was a good gal. I raised ten chillun by her, but l‘s outlivedthem all but Manuel, Clara and John. When Louvinia passed out, I got Magistrate Smith to une me and Nancy. She ‘s still livin‘ • Home sick now, can‘t do riothin‘.

t, \Thite people been good to me. I‘ve been livin‘ in dis home, free of

rent ‚ given me for life by Mr. Jim Smith, ‘cause I was his faithful servant twenty years.

‚t Many times I‘s set up in de gallery of de old brick church on Little

River. They had a special catechism for de slaves, dat asked us who made you,
and
what He made ye u out of ‚/what He made yo u for? I am ‘t forgot de answers to

dis day.

	‚t Marster Major give us Chrie‘i~ae dey and a pass to visit ‘bout but we sho‘ had to be back and repo‘t befo‘ nine o‘clock dat seine day.