~x-s1ave Stories	Page Three
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	“Us done work in de cotton field and wash many a 1on~ day to pay for dat farm. But dat ‘coy growed to be a good m~n and I live with him ~nd he wife now. And he bo‘~r, Bob, am better still. He jes‘ work so hard and he buy fine li‘l home in Jasper 8M marry de bes‘ ~al, mos‘ white.. Dey have nice fLrtture ana. ~as and lights and everythini~.

	“Dey treat us purty good in slavery days but I‘d r~.thez: be free, but it purty h~rd to be blind so lone and most deaf, too, but I thank de Lawd I~s not su.fferin‘, I gits de pension of ‘leven dollars a rn~nth. Ps so old I can‘t ‘member mu.ch, only sometime, things cones to me I tho.~ht I forgot long t line ago . ‘ s h~c1 it purty hard t o pay for de farm and de n have it stoled. from me when t ~ old and. blind, but cie good Lawcl, he 1~iow all ‚ bout it ~nd we :~31l got to stand ‚ fore de jedgment some d~ soon.