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	UPap~)s n!~:ne was i~ii~ ~a he‘s a tanner and h~ c~rn~ from Ten:~iess~e and~ sold. to Massa Kit by a ni~~r tr~ider. H~ wasn‘t ~î1 black, he was part Indians I hear‘d him say wh~t tribe, but I can‘t ‘lect now. V~hen Its growed rn~n~a tells i~i~ lots o~ things. Sh~ say cL~ whi~te folks don‘t let de sleir~s what works in de field marry none, dey jus‘ puts a rn‘3n and bree,din‘ wori~‘n tog~th~r lik~ mules. If~en the w~pn don‘t like the man it don‘t rna~ce no di~ftrence, sh~ better go or ~y giv~s her a hI din‘ .

	“Massa Kit hp.s two ~o, Massa Cherie~s and M~ssa Matt, what lives at West Coluinbi~.. Massa Kit on one side Thrnev‘s Creek ~nd Massa Charles on de other side. lLassa Kit have a Àrfic~n wo~an from Kentucky for he wife, and dat‘s de truth. I ain‘t sayin‘ i~fen she a real. wife or not, but all de slaves has to call her ‘Miss Rachel.‘ But j ffen a bi rd fly up in de sky it mus ‚ come down s omet ime ‚ and Rachel jus, like dat bird, ‘cause ~assa Kit go crazy and die ~nd Massa Charles t~ce over de plantatIon and he t~es Rachel and. puts her to work in de field. B.~t she don1t stay in de field 1on~, ‘cause ~ssa Charles puts her in a house by herself and she dontt work no more.

	“If us gits sick us call }4~mmy Judy. She ~e cook and iffen you puts • a suger barrel I long side her and puts a face on dat barrel ‚ you shoe ca&t tell it fr~ her, she so round and fat. Iffen us ~it rca]. sIck dey calls de doct or, but iffen it a ~nise~r 5~n de st omach or jus ‚ de flux, Mexnmy Jucty fix up some lnirr vine tea or horsemint tea. De~r de male burr vine and de female burr vine ~nd does a woman or gal. git de misery, dey ~ gives ‚ em de femele tea, and doe s a man ‚or bo‘r chile git It ‚ dey cives