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G~~ORG~ S IMMO}i S ‚ oorn In Alabama in 1854 ‚ was owned by Mr. S t eve
Jaynes, w~io lived near Beaumont, Texas. George x~aa a good. many memories of slavery years, ~lthoughi he was still a child when tie wae freed. He now liveB In Beaumont,Tex.




	~‘! ‚ s 1~o ‘n dunnt slavery, somewhar in Alab9ma, but I don‘

•member wliar my ~u~mmy said. Dey br~~mg me here ~ de War and I belonged to ~i1assa Steve Jaynes, ~d he ~iad ‘bout 75 other niggers.

It was a big p1~ce e~d lote ot~ wok, but I~s too lii~tie to do ~iu.ch

‘cept errands ‘round de house.

	“Massa Jayne~s, ~ie raised cotton ~rtd co‘n and he have ‘bout 400 acres. He ‘epected de niggere to wo‘k hard from mornin‘ till sundown, but he was ±alr in treatin‘ ‘ein. He give u.s plenty to eat and lots of cornbread and black~eye ‚ peas and plenty hawg neat and. sich. We had possum sometimes, too. Jus‘ took a nice, fat possum we done cotcned. in de woods end skinned ‘~i~ ~rd put ‘im in a oven

and roas‘ ‘im with sweet ‘tatoes all ‘round and. nia~ce plenty ravy.

Dat was good.

	“~Etassa Jaynes, he tlowed. de slaves who wanted to have a little place to ra~ce garden, veg‘tables and dose kin‘ of things. He gtve ‚ em seed and de nigger could have all ~ie raised in the 1 Ittle garden. ~Te was all well kept ~ I. don ‚ see whar ftc ed ~ was much ~‘v‘ ‚ bett~r ‚ In a way. Course ‚ some massas was bad. to d~ere slaves and. whIpped ‘em so tta‘d cley‘s ne~r1y dead. I know dat ‚ ‚ c puse I heered lt fi‘ o~ de neighbors pi aces.