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Interview, Scott Martin - continued.
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	t mules • De whites ~ en blacks mixed tergedder en den d law made de whites rid‘ in frunt en the blacks in de rearuh. I think dat wuz rite, but sum bb mah race wuz mad tbout hit. I wuz on a kar one day and mules run‘d tway en de ole red mule got loose frum de kar en run‘d ober a mile ‘fore dey ketched him en dey br ot t im ‘ k en de t t on • I members de oie L & N Railroad on de East side. W‘en my folks wud ride de ti~in dey had ‘ter hold me tite or I wuld git ‘way fruni dem en run en hide thind sum logs.‘~ I wuz geartet ter ride on de kars.“ .
	“J~tter freedum de slaves hadtn no truble ter go whar

dey t . Menny. t but menny stay wid der oie marsters . I stay wid xny marster tell he d‘ed. I dexrkum ant lib wld mah daddy on Lebanon~ Road. Atter dat I libed on Gallatin

Road an‘ den I kuxn ter Nashville, ant ~ widpict and. shovel ~- on st.reetó, wewers an~ udder jobs. I heered dein sez datde slaves wud-git lan‘, hose, money er sumpin‘but I neber heerd

ob nobody gittin nuthint. Dere wuz not slave‘rai~iings eroun‘

~~ar I wuz.“	~ ;

	“De fallIn‘ attars wuz ‘fore mah time, but Itse heertd inah daddy t ol e ~ b out hit • I • s et d de e orne t w id hit shinn t tail an‘ I fust b‘leevd sumbodyput hit up dere.“

	~Good luck sign wuz wten a stray cat kuiri ter 3~0t house an‘ ataydere. Bad luck sign wuz a bl~ek kat crossint y~t

path infrunt ob yer. Ter ke‘p frurn havint de bad luck yo! back up pas‘ whar hit crossed yer path en den spit an‘ yer

~ hab no bad luck.~ ~	• ~ ‚

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