Ex—slave Stories	Page Three
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works ii the field and some of ~em run off, but they ought~i‘t to h~vc clone it, ‘c~se they chase tern with houMs and n~Rrly kilt 1em.

	“Lots 3~ times Massa L~.tt give us a p~ass to go over to George Petro‘s place or Dick Gregg‘s plRce. Massa Pethro nm a slave mai‘k,t and he have big, high scaffold with steps where he sells slaves. They was stripped off to the waist to show their stren~t‘.

	“Our white folks have a church end ~. place for us in the back. Sometimes at night us gather ‘round the firepl~c~ efld. pr~ and sing s~d cry, bit us ~arentt tlow our white folks kiow it. Thaik the Lewd. us can worship where us wants nowadays. I tmember on~ song we allus sing:

“‘I he~u‘d the veice of Jesus callia‘
Come unto me ~nd live
Lie, lie down, weepint OR~
t they he ad on my bre as t.

‘ni corne to Jesus as I wa~ Weary axul line and tired amd. sad, I finds in hini a restiit place, And he has made me glad.‘

	“Us have two white doctors call Dr. Dan and Dr. Gill Shaw, what wait on us when we real sick, Us wore ~afoedit~ bags ‘round. the neck and it kep‘ off sickness.

	‘II stay mos‘ the tune in the big h~se and. massa good but missy am the devil. I couldn‘t tell you how I treated. Lots of times she tie me to a stab in the yard and. cowhid~e me till she give out, then she go and. rest and c~e back andbeat i~ some more, You see, Vs massa nigger and 5h~ have hei/.wa aiggers what coeie on her side and she never did like 1~e. She stomp axid beat me nearly t. death ath they have to grease my