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de slaves up in de 1~ncb and tells sein, ~You‘s free as I is. Keep on or quit, if :~ou wants. You don ‚ t have‘ t o stay no further ‚ you. ‚ s free tod~y~. ‚ Dat near June 19th, end all of 1ein stays. ILassa say, ‘Go ‘head and finish~de crop and. I feed you axid pay you.t Dey all lcnowed when he kilt de hawgs us glt plenty of meat, ~ Dat young massa say all dat, tcause old. massa done git kilt.

	“It‘s at Pano].a. County where I first hears of de Klux. Dey call dexa White Caps den, Dey move over in Panola County and ranges at de pl~ce call Big Creek Merval, by McFaddin Creek. Dey‘s purty rough. De landowners tell dey niggers not to kill de White Caps ~t to scare dem ‘wv. At nicht dey C orne knock ~nd if you don ‚ t open it dey p~ it open and. run you out in d.c fi eid. Dey ru~n de nig~ers from Merryville round Longview. Dey some good men in de Klux and. some bad men. ~it us work hard and go home and dey ai& t bother us none,

	“Dey used. to be a nigger rc*.tnd dere, call Bandy Joe, ~Ee git kilt at Nacogdochee fintly. He could turn into ~iything. De jedge of he parish was Massa Lee and he say dey ought let Bandy Joe live, so dey could lam he art. Dey done try cotch him de long time, and. m~rbe be holdin‘ him and first thing

~ they know he gone and dey left holdin‘ he coqt. Dey shoot at him and not hurt him~ Ee. tell he wife dey am‘ t no kind bullet can hurt him but de s ilver bul,

	. “Dat Bandy Joe, he say he a spirit and. a human both. Iffen be didn‘t . wa~ ~ you to ~ see him you jus ~ oald±‘ t see him. Lots of folks liked him. De

..	j~ge~ s~ ~he wish he could‘a been brung to town, so he could 1zaiaine him ‘bout he sifts, De jedge knowed~ Bandy Joe could dis‘pear jus‘ like nothin, and he like to bear he qjiotation how he git out he skin. I‘d like to know dat myself.
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