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t, Mar50 Arthur Owens done tell me I‘ll live to be a hundred, if I stay on his place and never ‘lope away wid any strange young buck nigger“.

	t, I‘s not so feeble as I might ‘pear, white f~lk~o Lang time I suffer for sight, but dese last years I see just as good as I ever did. Date a blessin‘ froiri de Lord*

	t, ~Tho I b‘long to in slavery time? where I born? I born on what is now called de Jesse Gladden place but it all b‘lorig to my old marster, ~tilliam Hall, then. .. ~

	n My old mar~ter was one of de richest zisn in de world. Hirn have lands in Chester ~and Fairfield counties, Georgia and Florida, s.nd one place on de Red River in Arkansas o He also had a plantation ‚ to raise brown auger on, in old Louisiana. Then him and his brudder ‚ Daniel ‚ built and give Bethesda Church, dats standin‘ yet, to de white Methodis‘ of Mitford, för them to ‘tend and worship at. He ‘membered de i~rd, you see, in all hia ways and de I~rd guidehis steps.

	n ~ never have to do no field work; just stayed 9round de house and wait on de mistress, and de chillun. I was whupped just one time. i~at was forniarkin‘ do mantel-piece wid a dead coal of firo.. They nake mammy do de lashin‘ • Hadn ‘t hit me three licks befo ‚ Miss Dorcas ‚ Miss Jemima, Miss Ju— lia ‚ and Marss Johnnie run dore ‚ kot ch de switch ‚ and say : ‘Dat enough Mauina Ann! Addie won‘t do it agin‘. Data all de beatin‘ I ever ‘ceived in slavery time.-

	u Now does you wanna know what I do when I was a child, from de time I git up in de mornin‘ to de time I go to bed? I wa~ ‘bout raised up in de house. i~eli, in de evenin‘, I fill them boxes wid chips and fat splinters. When mornin‘ come, I go in der. and make a fire for my young mistresses to