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	II	And do you know, she never did get over ht~v1ng fits~ Sije haa them every change of the moon ‚ or leastways every other moon change . But she kept on workin~.She w~ ~ hard worker.She had to be.O1dMistre~s see to that.She ~7as meaner than old 1~arster, she was. She would sit ~r the sDin:~~xi~ whee~I and coimt the turns the sla ~‘e women made .And they couidnt fool her none neither. My mother worked until ten otciock almost every night becau~e her part was to ‘spend so many cuts“ a day,~ ~mnd she couldnt get throu~i no sooner. ~hen I was a little shaver, I used to sit on the floor ~it~i tne other little felows while our mothers ~or~ced, E~~d sometimes the white folks ~ir1s woula read ~is a Bible story.)3ut most of the time we slept.~ight tiieré on tne floor. Then later,when

~	I w~ bi~er, i &‚d to work with the men at night shelling corn, to take to

~	town èarly iaorniugs.1‘

~Marster Gofortn countedhirnself a good old Baptistchristian. The

-	-one good. deed he did., I will never forget, he made us all ~o to church every Sund~ay. . That v~ the‘ onliest-olace off the farm wè ever went. Every time a slave went off the niace ‚ ~ he had to have a pass ‚ except we didnt ‚ for church. Every— body in thet coimtry knowed that the Goforth niggers didnt have to have ~ pass to ~o to church. But that di&nt make n~ difference to the Pattyroolers. Theytø?L hide in the htshes, or wait along side of the road, and when the ni~ers come frorn meeting, the Pattyroolers‘s say,‘Whar‘s your pass‘? Us Goforth nig~ers used

.	tostart running soon a~ we W95 out of church.We never ~‘ot cau~ht.That is why I

~	tell you I cant use my lees like I used. to. If you was cai~ht without no pass,

:~• the Pattyroolers give you five iicks.They was licksi You take a banch of five to

~	seven Pattyroolers each giving five licks and the blood flows.‘1

.~‚	~‘O1d Marster was too old to go to the war.He bad. one son was a soldier,

~	but he never come home a~gain. I never seen a soldier till the war was over and

~	they begin to come back to the farms. We half~grown ni~~ers had to work the farm,
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~	because ai]. the feaners had~ to ~1ve,-‘I believe it was a tenth~ of their croos to
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