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	I useter drive u.p de cows en mah feet would be so cole en mah toes cracked open en bleedin‘ ‚ en I‘d be cryin‘ ‘tu I got ~- a]~g.1 ter de house den I‘d wipe mali eyes on de bottom ob mah dress, so de Marster WOU]4lifl‘ know dat I had bin 017m‘ • He‘d say ‚ ~ ajn~ t you cryin‘ ?“ I ‘d say ‚ „ No 8Uh•‘~ 11Ez you cole?“ ~ ayes, sir.“ He would say kum on en warm.

	w‘ en de niggers .WiiZ freed ‚ all ob mah Mi ssis slaves slipped I way ‚ t C e pt me • O ne ~ she t o le me t er ~g o d own en wake dem up ‚ I went down . en knocked ‚ no body said mithin‘ • I pushed on~de doler - hit kum op‘n ~ en I fell inde room en hurt ~ah chin. ± went back ter Missis - en she SOZs, “W‘at ezde matter wid you?“ I seZs ‚ “Une le ‘John en all ob dem eZ gon‘ ; I pushed
~	.~ : on de doter en fell in.“ 3h~ sezs you know-d.ey ez nôt gone, go -

baokeri gitdem tip. ~I had ter goback, but&eywurtent derea No ‚ r dofl‘t member de stat.rs fallint‘ ~ . .~ ~ - . .

.	Mah Missis didunt gi:b me mithin, cept maki clothes, en she • put dem in a carpet bag ~ Att er freedum mali . mammy kl2m f um

Lebanon en got me. Ah‘ Il neber fergit dat day .~ Oh Lawdy~ I kin see her flow. Mah oie Missis“ daughter-‘in-law had got a bunch ob switches ter whup me, I wuz standin‘ in de doter ghak1~‘ all

. .	ovtth, en de young Missis wuz telfin‘ nie ter git mah clothes off.

~‘	I seZ~~ “I setd a ‘oman kum‘g thro de gate.“ ~ia~ Missis ~ezs~

~	“Bat ez Lucinuja“ en de young Miseis hid de switches. Mah mammy ~ seZs I‘se kUm ter gît mah chile. Mali Misais tole her ter let n~ ~ spend de nite wjd her, de~ sbei.d send me ter de Couii~t House at

I~,	~ otciock next mawnin‘ • So I stayed wid de Missis dat nite, en ~ ~ she tole me ter ali&i~z be a good girl, en don‘t let a man er boy I i~rip me • I d~idunt know w‘ at she mean but I a].IUS membered w‘ at
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