ZL~SLiVF STORIES	Pace Two	299
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~	you ~a,ther a btmch of~ cattle to ~e11 they calves, how the calves

and COWS will bawl ‚ that the way the slaves was then. They d1dn~t ~ow nothin‘ tbout they kinfoiks, Mos‘ chilIen didn‘t know whö they papp~ was and. some they

ma1~Iny, ‘cause they taI~en sway from the n~r~y when she wean them, end sell or trade the chilien to someone else, so they wouldn‘t git. ~!tached to they rnai~riy
	or pappy.	.
	            ~ lam us to read and. us read the Bible.	He l~rn us to write, too.

They a big church on he plantat ion and us go to church and. lam to tell the truth.

tu see& some few run away tothe north and. massa 5ometirne cotch teni

and put ‚ em in j ail. Us couldntt go to nowhere wi thout a pass . The patt err oilers would ~it us ~Ud they do plenty for nigger slave. ~ went to my quarters and be so tIred I jus‘ fall in the door, on the ground, and a patterroller come by and hit me several. licks with a cat—o...nine-.tails, to see if I~s tired ‘nouai to not nui ~wsy. Sometimes them patterrilers hit us just to hear‘ us holler.

‘t~en a slave die) he jus‘ 1nother dead nigger. Massa, he b~iilded a

wooden box and put the nigger In and carry him to the hole in the grou~nd. Us

niarcli round the grave three times and that all.
	;	HI been marry once ‘fore freedom, with home ~ Massa, he bring

~	some more w~nen to see me. Re wouldn‘t let me have just one w~an. I h~.ve ‘bout

~	. fiftêe~ and I dOn~t know how many chl4len, Some over a hunerd, I‘s shot.

“I ~member plenty ‘bout the war, teause the Yankees they march on to

.	R~b~Ond, They Icill everything wh~ in the way. I heared theta big guns and :~ ]!.5$Øart~ !verybody ecart. I didn‘t see no fighti&, ‘cause I €ita out the

~	and~ kee~pe out t il]. it ai]. over.

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