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cloWn and sJ.~~ped our hands and shou~ted ‘Glory to Godp	~ child dat was one happy bunch oi~ ni~ers. ~whUe ~texi dat some o:i: de slaves told iratrster dey wante~ to stay on with him jike dey had been but he told ‘erri no dey oou.ldn‘t, ~ dey was free, ire said he could tise some of ‘e~ but dey would haTe to buy what dey got ~nc1 he v~ou1d have to pay ‘em like men.

	“When I was ‘bout 16 years old I nit~rried John B~rcIay. ITS had ten chil.luxi and :Cour gran‘~-chi11un and nov~ I iive~ by myae1±~.“