E».sla~e. Stories	Page	o	t‘. .	G,
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be at the	pore ni~ers for beggin ‚ or st ah‘ ‚ or some crime. “Marss John would saddle up Old Charlie and. go~ see. He he.d. a


I bi~ shot gun across his lap . We‘ d hear that oie bull whip just a poppin‘.

\	Theyt d turn ‚ em b o~ when Marse John ~ot aft er 1 em, He pro sectit ed. some

~	rnarsters for beattnt the sia~es. He kiew they‘ was half feed.in‘ ‘em,‘ One time he let us go see where they‘d drue two ni~ers todeath with

\	oxen. For stealth‘ or somethin‘ • I can‘ t s~y we were treated bad., ~ cause

\Itd tell a story. Itve always been treated good by whites, but ru~ny of

ithe niggers was killed, They‘d say bad. words to the bosses and they‘d

t shoot tem We‘d ask Miss M~rsr w~r CUd. they kill old Uncle so and so, and ;Miss Mary ~ say, ti don‘t know, ‘It‘s not right to say when you don‘t ~Jknow.‘ I‘m glad to see slavery over.

‚ ‚. „	“when I was turned, loose Miss Marywas training me and mister 7 to do h~ndwork, knittin‘ and such. Mama wouldn‘t let us dance, didn‘t

;w~t any rough children, Miss )Lary‘d. say, when I‘d get sleepy, ‘Owl
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‚~ eyes, ain‘t you ep‘ I‘ d. say, ‘No, ma~&~m, ~riything you want us to

	/de?‘ I cried to sleep in the big house with Miss Mary and the children, ‚ ( t cw~,se ay sister Belle did. Said she‘ s gomn‘ t o turn white ‚ cause she _~\~~red with the white folks, ~

‚	“Mi s s Ma17‘ d~ make our Sunday cires se s . My mother put colored~ ‚ ‚. \‚~ thread in woven ~iateriai and. they was pretty. We bad. plenty of clothes.

~/ ‚ „ ‚ $iSs« Mary Saw to that . They paid lay mother for every child she bad. that
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‘( ‚Ii was ‘b, jg: euoi~gb to work, and Marse ‚Tohn saw that others did the s.a~e. ~
\	k\\	1~ Some Whit es had a daz‘k hole in the ground., a‘dungeon ‚ ~ they
\		‚ to put the ir ala~es in. They‘ t~ eei‘ry ‚ sa bread and water

\	~ V se traid~ of the hole ‚ they‘d~ tell me the devil waa in
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