~c—slave Stories	PR.ge Two
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	‘1After freedom cOme, us stays ?.ight on with massa and missus. Massa teach school for us at night. Us learn k B C and how spell cat and dog arid nigger. Den one day he git cross and scold us and us didn‘t go back to school no more. Us didn‘t have sense ‘noug~i to know he tryin‘ do us good.

	“Den missus git sick, 1~t she dat good, dat when one cLilud r~an git drown ixide‘river she sit up in bed and ma~e he shroud and massa feed de whole crowd de two day~ dey findin‘ de body. ~ter him bury, mi~sus gìt worse and say, ‘Jason, pull down d.c blind, de licht am so bright it hurt my eyes.‘ Den a big, white crane come light on de chimney and us chilien throw roc~cs at hirn, but he jes‘ shake he head and raffle he feathers and still sit dere. I tells you dat de light of Heaven ~ on missus and iffen ever a woman went dere, she did. She de bes ‚ white w~nan I ever see • De d~y she die ‚ I cry all day.

	“Vllien de sojers go to de war, evex~r ~an take a slave to watt on him and ta~~e care he camp and. cook. After de end of war, when de sojers gwine home, don‘t know how ~nax~r Yankr~es pass through J~.sper, but it sound like de roar of a storm ~ ~ Every officer have he wife ridin‘ right by he side. Dey wives

.	c~:ne to go borne with dein. Dey thousands bluecoats, ridin‘ two abreast.

	“Then I young lady, dey have tourn‘rnents at Adrian Ryall pl/~ce west of Jasper and de one what cot ch de hoss bridle de most t imes ‚ git crown queen. I gits to be queen every time. I looks like a queen now, doesntt I?

“After u.s, git free a long tune, me and Susan and Tom us work h~rd

.	and buy us de b1~ck land farm. Bat de deed. gît burnt up and us didn‘t know how to git ‘nother deed, and a young nigger call Mc~ay, he come fo&lin‘ ‚ round. nie and. makin‘ love to me. He find out u.s don‘t have no deed n~ more arid he claim dat fami and take it ‘way from us and leave me with 11,1 baby bo~ what I names
~. . Joe Millie	~		. .
:‚	MoRay.	B~it never ‘gain. I never marries.
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