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Mrs. Chiotilde R. Martin
Beaufort County





rail-splitter and spy ‘round. He gone back w‘ere he corne from and say: “You eider got to gib dese nigger t‘ree day for deyse‘f or dere will be blood-shed.“ And he been right. I would be gla d for shurn (see him) but I nebber shurn.

	:i: don1t know nutting ‘bout dat genxnan Mister Davis, neider Mister Washington - you say he been a nigger, too?

	~V‘at I t‘ink ‘bout slabery? I t‘ink it been good t‘ing. It lam nigger to wuk. If it ain‘t mek nigger wuk, he wouldn‘t do nutting but tief (thie~‘.) You don‘t find nigger wuk for slabery running ‘round looking for ready money - dat been all dese yere n‘oung nigger want. Me - I slabing for self right now. I don‘t want nobody for mek me wuk, but slabery lam me for wuk. I hab wuk five hundred head ob man in rock and today ain‘t one can come to me and say: “Sam Polite, you beat me out ob one penny.“

	Slabery done uh good Wing for nie, ‘cause if he ain‘t lam me to wuk, today I wouldn‘t know how to wuk.