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	‚	.~	- INTERVl~
		V~	 REV. JOHN MOOIŒ	. . -
	.	8.097th Avenue So. .~

Nashville, Tennessee


	“i• WUz bawn in Georgia (ezact time not known) en mah rna~n~riy wu~z ha]! Indian en ~ah daddy a slave. Both ob dem owned by Will~ain Moore.. Sum time atter dat Marster Moore Sok:L mah daddy en den de Moore 3istuhs looked atter me en wuz allus good ter rue. “Lawd~y, dey wuz good white folks,“ : t?D~rjflt s3.avery tixnes de slaves would hab ter git furn

	dere marster a past ‘fore dey could visitdere ownpeeple on O ~ de uth~i~ plantations. Ef‘n you had no. pass you. would git in . - - t1~buble. ef oa~ght wjd. out ~ one whteh allus nient a goc$ whuppin‘

~	: ~ ~ deyretu±~ned.~ At dat time menny slaves woui~ n.m ‘Way en
-	- bj.de.iri caves en menny ob dem would go by de “onder~roun‘ ‘railrOad“ ter Canada whar slavery Wuznot recognized.‘~ (The underground rai iroad .3onsisted~ ‘øf~ hidIng- places throu~bout the

states to Canada a~ •I;he slaves woi~ld make. the trip under cover from station to statiori.)~ ~ ~

“De slaves *uld slip out atnjte ter private nieetin‘s en

	turn a pot bottom up on de groun‘ en leave a little hole under ~‚ ~ hit so de ~ ob dere talkint WOUld go onder de pot en rio one

~	would tyear whut dey wuz talkint ‘bout.
~De ex—8laves ob de better class did vote ‘ende white

peeple stack wid de good culled folks. I d~~I member now IboUt de ~at Tur~ier tBellion.U .
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