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his ‘sqUirinin~ end twistin‘ and. he the bi~es‘ debbil on earth.

	“We leaves right away for Te xas and. goes t o inarst er ‚ s ranch in umu.. It w~,s owned. by him and a man call Wright ‚ ~nd when we ~its

there I ‚ s put t o wo rk without no thin ‚ to eat . Dat nicht I rna~ke s up my raind to run aw~y b~it de nex‘ day dey takes me and de other ni~ers to look at de does and chooses me to train de dogs with. X‘s told I hadto play I ru.nnin‘ away and. to run five mile in any way and. then climb a tree. One of de ni~ers tells roe kind of nice to climb as hi~h in dat tree as I could. if I didn‘t want my body tore off my lees • So I mns a good five railes and. climbs up in de tree whar de branches is ~ettin‘ small.

	“I sits dere a long time and den sees de d.o:s coming. When dey gits under de tree dey sees me and. start s ~ . After dat I never ~c~t thinkin‘ of nux~nin‘ aw~r.

	“Time does on and de war corne alone, but everyt~ng goes on I Ike it did.. Some niggers dies ‚ 1*it more was born ‚ ‚ ca~ise old Pinch‘back sees to dat. He breeds nig~ers as quick as he can, ‘cau~se dat money for his. I~o one had no say who he have for wife. Bu.t de nigger husbands wasn‘t de only ones dat keeps up havin‘ chilien) ‘cause de marsters and. de drivers takes all d.c nigger gals dey wants. Den de chillen was brown an~ I seed. one clear white one, ILIt dey slaves jus‘ de same.

	“1~ end. of dat war comes and. old. Pinchback says, ‘You niggers all come to de big house in de mornin‘. He tells us we is free and be opens

his book and. gives u~s ail a name and. tells ~ us whar we comes from and. how old. we is, and. says he pay us 40 cents a day to stay with him. I stays ‘bout

a year and. ~ s no big c~iange . De same bouses arid some got whipped. but ~ .‚ noboty ~ot nailet to a tree by de ears ‚ like dey used. • to . Finally old. P inch-


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