Ex~elave Storiee	~		p~e ~‘our	•~:
	(Texas)		.







	“I hevred some slaves say they white fo3ke was g..d t. 1eui, but lt was a t ight fight where us was . ‘ z thought ever the case a theusand. times and flg~ir~d lt was ‚ cause all men aim‘ t made alike. Seme are bad and sonic are gced. Itts like that new. Saine felice ~u werks fer get ne heart and. seine treat yea white. I guess it allus will be that way.

	“They was m•rt3 ghests and. hante them days than niw. ~ It le.k like when Iis ceiain‘ ~up ~hey was ceamen as pig tracks. They cs~e in different f~rms and shapes, semetirnes like a dog or cat er goat er like a man. I didn‘t ‘lieve in 1em till I seed ene. A fellow I kn•wed osuld eeé ‚ em every time he went eut. One time us walkin‘ ‘l.ng a ceuntry lane ~nd he say, ‘3.rd.n, l.øk •vér my right sh.ulder•‘ I l•eked and see a ma~ w~lkln‘ witheut a head. I breke and. run plumb sff frein the man ~ with. He wasn~t scart •±‘ oem,

	HIts reftigeed frem Œe.rgla te Andersen Ceunty ‘fers the war. I see

Abe Lincein •nct when he cerne threugh, but didn‘t nene •f kniw wh~ he was.

I he~red the president wanted ‘em te w•rk the ysung nigger. till they was twenty-

ene but t e free the gr .wed si ave s . They say he give ‚ em thirty days t . ‚ si derate

it • The white felice said they‘ d wade bleed saddle deep tferethey‘ d. let a~ liese.

I den ~ t blame ‚ e~n in a way, ‚ cai~se they paid fer us • In tnether way it was right

t I free .	us • We was br.ught he re and n, pers ~u Is sp osed t. be made a br~it e. HAfter surrender, Massa Ab call us and say we ceuld g.. Mammy stayed

bat I left with my uncles and aunts and went te Shrevepert where the Yanks was.

I didn‘t hear f~i~ my mammy fir the nex‘ twenty years.

	t, In Ku Klux timee they cerne t. ~itr lieuse and I et s.d re‘ ‚ but tbe~ didn1t b.ther us. ~ I heared ‘em say l.te cf niggers was teck dewn in Sabine bettem

and Kiuxed, just • ‚ cause the~y w.~ted t. git ~ rid. ef sea. I .~ think it was desperadøe
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