ExQslave Stories	Page Three‘
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the two rows and grab a woman ~d try to throw her‘ down and. feel of her to see how she ‚ s put up. If she ‚ s purty strong, ~ d. say, ‚ Is she a good, breeder? ~ If a gal was 18 or 19 and put up good she was worth ‘bout $1,500. Then the b~iyer ‚ d Pi ck out a strong, young nigger boy ‘baut the same age and buy him. ~~hen he got them home he‘d say to them, ‘I want ~routwo to stay together.

I want youn~~ niggers.

Ulf a nigger ‘ever run off the place and come back, master‘d saar,

‘If you‘ll be a good nigg~r, I‘ll not whip you this time.‘ B~t you couldn‘t ‘lieve that. A nigger run off. and stayed in the woods six month. When he corne back ~ s hairy as a cow, ~ cause he lived In a cave and come out at n i~2at and ~lfer rou.nd. They put the doge on him but couldn ‚ t c otch hirn. i‘in‘ ly he come home and m2ster say he ~ whip him and Tom was crazy ‘ncugh to ‘lieve lt. Master say to the cook, ‘Fix Tom a big dinner,“ and while Tom‘s ~ master stand in the door with a whip and say, ‘Tom, I~s change my mind; you have no bu.siness runnin‘ off and I‘s gwine take you out jus‘ like you come into the world,

	“Master gits a bottle whiskey ~md a box cigars and have Tom tied up out in the yard. He takes a chair and. say to the driver, ‘Boy, take him down, 250 licks this time. ‚ Then he ‚ d. count the 1 icks • When they‘ s ~ 150 licks it didn ‚ t look like they is any place left t o hit ‚ but master say, ‚ YIniSh him up.‘ Then he and. the drive r e ot down ‚ smoke o igar~s ~ azid drink whiskey ‚ and mas t er tell ‚ Torn bow he must mind he mast er. Then he lock Tom up in a log house and master tell aU the niggers if they give him anything‘ to eat he‘ll e~in em alive. The old folks slips Tom bread and meat. When he gits oat ‚ he‘s gone to the woods

‘gain. They‘s plenty niggem what etayect~i~ the woods till surrender.
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