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help feed the soldiers. So we d.idxxt know rothing about what was going on, no more than a hog. It was a long time before we lcnowed we was free. Then one night Old. Marster come to our ilouse and. he say he wants to see us all before breakfast tomorrow morni!ig c~M to coue on over to hi~ house.He got something to tell us.“

	“Next morning we went over there. I was the monkey, always acting smart.But I believe they liked me better than all of the others. I just spoke sE~sSy—like and. say,“Qlci ~arster, what you got to tell us“? My mother said, $t~aut your mouth fool.He‘ll whip youl“ Ajid Old. Mareter say,~‘No I wont thip you.Never ro more . si t down thar all of you and 1 isten to what I go t to tell you. I hates to do it but I n~t~ You all amt n~y ~~ig~ers no more . You. is free. Just as free asI am.Here I have raised you ~1l tc work for me, and. now you are going to 1eav~ me. I am ~n old man, a~d I cant ~et along v~ithout you.I dont 1w1ow:what I amgoing to do.“ Weilsir, it killed hùn.He was deadin lesi~ than
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	V	V V ~ „ 1~verybody~ left right now, ~t me and. my brother ~thd another fellow.

Old Marster fooled us to believe we was duty~boimd-to stey with h±r~ tlU we was
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V	~ all twenty—one. But my brother, that by was suboorn. Soon he say he amt going


to stay there .And he left . 1n about a year ‚ maybe 1 ess ‚ he e orne back end. he told. meV‘didnt have to work for Old Goforth, I was free, sure enoub~ free,and

	IV	with him ~nd he got me a job raiirpa~ng,. Bat; Vt~ ~rkVV was too h~‘d for V mel coi~lthit V stand it.So I left there and went to my mother. I bad to w~i1k.It


was forty—five miles. VI ~aade it in a day. 5he got me 1~rk there where she

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	V V V ~ V	V ~% VI remember so well, how the roads was full of folks walking and V V !~:V€ p~1VQn~ when the ~ij~gers were freed. Dithit know Vwhe~e they was gC)iV~.JUSt V; V V ~o4~.: t°VV8~V a~VO~tV SOmeVtVk~4UgV else somewhere else. Meet a body in the ro~4 and

~Ae1 asIc, ~ ~here you going ‚ ‘P . ‘~ZIt know . ~‚ . 1~bat you~ going to do ‚ ? ‘Dont ~now I


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