~*slavi Stories	Page Pour	28
(Texas)




	“Old massa didn‘t hold with de way sans mean massas tr.at d.y nigg.rs. Dire a pl~iCi on our plantation what us call ‘~» old meadow. ‚ It was conon for ranawey niggers to have place ‘long de way to hide and. rist when dey nia off fron meu massa. Massa ~ieed to givs ‘sa soa,tta‘ to eat ehen dey hide dire. I saw dat place operated, though it waes~‘t knowed by dat den, but long tinis after I finds out dey call it part of de ‘Undergr~xutd railroad.‘ Dey was stops like &at all de way up to de north.

	~Pe have went down to Columbia when I ‘bout li year ôld and dat where di first gun fired. Us rush back home, but I could eny I heered de first guns of de war shot, at Tort Sumter.

	“IVhea G.n‘ral Shern~n ~ come ‘cross de Savannah River in South Carolina, sons of he sojers c*ne right ‘cross us plantation. All de neighbors havi brung de~r cotton *nd stack it in de thicket on de Lipacomb place. Shermen men find it and sot it on fire. Dat cotton stack was big as a little court~ houa. and i~ took two months‘ burnin‘.

	“My old massa run off and stey in de woods a whole week when Sherman

men coins through. He dicta‘ t need to worry, ‚ ca~ise us took cars of every~

thin ‚ • Dey a funny s Ong us make up ‘bm~t him runn in‘ off in de woode • I

know it was make up, ~c&use m~‘ uncle have a band in it. It went like d12

ç ~Vhits folks ‚ have yoi~ seed. old massa
UI, de road, With h. m~istache on?
Hi~ pick up he hat and h. leave real sudden
AM I ‘hive hs‘e up and gone.

(Chorus)
‘Old massa run &~97
Antt us d.arkies stay at home.
It m,is‘ be now dut Kingd~on‘s canin‘
And d. year of Jubile..