Ex—sl&ve Stori.s	P~€ ~0
	(T,x~s)		.	86





Dr. Prost t~cs her away from that man and gtv.e her to Miss Nancy what was di uiistres, at ~. Maas:Is‘i place.

“T~n they says they gwtne eell me, ‘Cause Miss Nancy‘s father-P

in—law diii and they ~ot rid. of eoii~. of us. She didn‘t want to sell me so she teli me to be sassy antt no one would buy ~e. The~r takesme to Houston ari& to thi market and. a ~nan caU (~eorge !raaer selli tb• slaves. The market was a open house, more itic. a shed. We ~ll stands to one side till our turn comes. They wasn‘t nothin‘ else you could do.

	“They standeme up on a block of wood and. a man bid me in. t felt mad. Y~ see I was young then ‚ too young to know better. I dOn‘ t know what they sold me for, but the mati what bought me mad~e me open i~ty mc~ith while he loo~cs at ~y teeth. They done all us that.a-~way, sells us like you sell a hoss. Then my old master bi1~s me goodby and tries to giveme a dog, but I ~aemb~rs what lites Nancy done stay and I sassed him and slapped ~he dog out of his hand • So the man what bought me say, ‚ Then one o, clock ecrue you got to sell her ‚ gain, she ‚ a sassy. If she done me that way I~t kill her. ‚ So they sells me twice the same day. They was two sellin‘s that day.

	“My new master, Tom Johnson, lives in Lyrohbu.rg and owns the river boat there, and. has a little place, ‘bout one ~ rn the bayou. Then the war comes and jas‘ t fors war come to Galveston they took all the steamships in the Buffalo Bayou and took the cabine off end mazie f ehips. They put cotton bales ‘ro~d thea and builded ‘em up high with the cotton, to cotch th cann~balls. Two of ‘em was the Island City, and the !e~ptune.