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a big sack of money, what they had made for him, arid told th~i dat he was gwine to kill all of them beTh ‚ de Yankees set them free and that they wo~1thi‘t riGed no money after they was done dead. All de slaves was mighty sad and tro ubled ‚ all dat day ‚ when old marst er made dat speech to them. But 3otflethifl‘ happened . It most make s nie tremble to talk to you ‘bo ut it now. Providence,or some kind of mercy spirit,was sho‘ walkin‘ ‘round dat plantation dat night. 3ometin~ in de night it was whisperod ‘round amongst de slaves dat o id rnarster done took de smallpoxes and was mighty cick. Manm~y said he mu3t have been terrible sick, ‘cause they buried him two days after ciat.

	n After old r:~rster flew away, everything was different on de plantation. Miss Nancy, dat was old nAarster‘s wife, told de slaves dat when de Yankees freed them, they could stay right there and work on shares or by the day,which ever v~ay they wanted. Many stayed on de plantation after freedom ihile others went away. Me and my folks 8tayed on wid Miss I~ancy until she die. Then us moved on another plantation in de lower side of de county. I stayed dare untu my wife died, seventeen years ago.

	If Does I ‘member anything ‘bout how de slaves was treated in slavery time? Well, I members a little myself and a heap of what others bcld riio~ Wid dis I has done told you, I believes I want to stop right dere. A low fence is

easier to git over then a high one . Say little and you ain‘t gwine to have s. heap to ..‘splain hereafter. Dere is a plenty of persons dat has lost deir heads by not lettin‘ deir tongues rest. Marster Sam Loule is dead flOWo H6 can‘t dis-

turb nobody in his grave. H5 had his faults and done many th inge wrong but show me dat person what don‘t mis-stop sometimes. A].l of us, both white and

black, is prone to step asic1~ i~cr arid then. To tell de truth, old marster nover knowed what SUflday was. ~verybbdy on de plantation worked on dat day as