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at thé divideinent of the property. Master Ab put us to work on a big farm he bought and it was Hell ‘inong the yearlin‘s if crou crost him or inissus either. It was double trouble and a cowhi.din‘ whatever you do. She had a place in the kitchen where she tied their hands up to the wall and cowhided~ them and sometimes cut they back ~most to piecee. She made all E~o to chtirch and let the women wear some her old, fine dresses to hide the stripes w1~ere she‘d beat them. Mammy say th&t to keep the folks at church from i~nowin‘ how mean she was to her nig~ ~ers,

	“Master Ab had a th~iver and if you didn‘t do what th1~t driver s~r, master say to him, ‘Boy, come here and take this nigger down, a huncH licks this time.‘ Sometimes us ru~n off and go to a dance without a pass and ~bout time they‘s kickin‘ they heels and getting sot for the big time, in come a patterroller and s ay, ‚ Bavin ~ a big t ins ‚ am ‚ t yi~u? Got a pass? ‚ I f you didn ‚ t ‚ . they‘ d gi t four or five men to take you out and when ~they got through you‘d sho1 go home.

	~	“Master Ab had. hunerds acres wheat and made the women stack hay in the field. ~ Sometimes they got sick hand wanted to ~o to the house, but he made them lay down on aetraw—pile in the field. Lots of chilien was borried on a strawpile in the field. After the chile was borned he sent them to the house. I seed that with my own eyes.

..	“They was a trader y~rd in Virginia and one in New Orleans and sometimes a thousand slaves was wait in‘ t o be sold. When the traders knçwed men was

commt to buy, they made the slaves all clean up and. greased they niouths with ~ meat skins t o I ook like they‘ s feedin‘ ~ them plenty meat ‚ They lined the women up on one side and the men on the other. „L buyer would walk up and down ‚ tween

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