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marster he whoop us a little bat we never got hurt. It1 didia‘ see no slaves said, tat was done, I hear,

but not so m~ioh in Texai~. I never did see no jails nor ohain~ nor nothix.‘ like d~t either, bi.it I hears ‘bout dein,

	‘TWe never worked ~at‘days and de colored went to church wid de whites and jine de church too, but dey never baptized dem so ft~r as I knows.

	‘twe had lots to eat and big times on Christmas, inos‘ as big as when de white folks gits married. Uniph, wn~ One of de gi‘ls got iriarried once and she had such a long tr~iil on dat weddin‘ gown ‘tU nie and ~y sister, we have to walks along behind her and carry dat thing, all of us a-.walkiia‘ on a strip o~ nice cloth i~roin de carriage to ~e churoh. we shot have de cakes and all dem good eats at dein weddiii‘ suD~ers.

	“I nevtr hear tell o±~ many colored weddin‘s. ~Ie jes‘ ju.m~ps over de broom an‘ de bride she has to jump over it; b~okwards and iffen she cotildn‘ jump it backwards she couldn‘t git nmrried. ~at was sho‘ Î~axii~y, seem‘ dein colored gi‘l~i ~i trytia‘ to jump dat broom.

	“Our boas,he tells us ‘bout bein‘ free und he say he ~ hire us by ue month and we st:~ys dere ~ year and ~ae dies, den oie miss she go back to Mississippi and we jes ‚ scatter ‘round, some a worktn‘ here and some a wori~in‘ yonder, mos‘ times ror our victuals and clothes. I couldn‘ tell much diCference uiysel1~ ‘cause I had good people to Live wid and when it w~s dat way de whites and de colored was better off