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~L.sI~AY:E STORIES (Texae)
~&4R~W RUSSEL, 82, was born ~ slav, of Wiflj~ Patrick, wh~ owned Aaon‘ i re, a hun~fred other elavee, and. a large plantation in Ouachita Parish, n~ar Monroe, Loui~1ana. Aaron re$ined. with the ?at rick family ~tht il he was 28; t1~ien moved to Tex~Ls. E. farmed ~ all hie life ‚ unti~t. old. age forced him to stop work.~He
then moved to a suirnrb of Worth, to be near his children.
“Massa William Patrick give my mammy 4.e statement. It say Vs
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~)	borne&‘ li: 1855 and dat in~ce me 82 year old.. M~ssa Patrick, he own de big
~	plant~ti(>n obst to Monroe, over in Louisiana. ~ Dat d.c big place, with

~	over a 1~nerc1 niggera.

I!	.‚ ‚t When de war start ~ s ‚ bout s ix year old, but I has de good

~	n~emt ~ of dem times. Masea have no chilien so nobody goes from dat place,

~	but 1~t~ de n~eighbor boys us knows goes to de a~rmy.
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!~!	.~ ‘lit firet everything go good after war start ‚ but de last end. am

~	not so ~cod. De trouble am de Yanks come and tl~1ces de ration5 fz‘om massa.

~	Dey take 5 e 0m and. meat and kil t s evera!. bawgs ~nd takes two yearl 1‘ s.

~	Dat s~p‘ z~iake massa ma& Hirn git so mad him cr~r. If massa had&t ‘spect

	sich ~zid tide de rations, us sho‘ suffer, but bkck of de cotton field massa ~ done have lis dig de pit. In de pit us put de h~y and lay de rations in

	dere ‚ s ich as corn and smoke‘ meat and ‚ tatere . ~ De Yanks ‘ t find dat ~ . stuff.~ ~t w~iat de soi ers t&ces make it nip ari4i. tuck t o gi t 1~y.

	I‘~U1 11~5 nigger. ‘cited when de sojers t~ikes dc rations. De older .~ -~c~•t1es ‘~aI~3 to ft~t dem Yanks. Dere‘d been troL~~ble iffen massa didn‘t

say to~ dem ; t~ keep ‘w~q‘. All us like massa, h1t treat us fine~ and us
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