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till lt brown on de top and bottom1 It was good, jist as good as nowada~ys, baked in a ovens Our beds was made oiit of straw ~nd 015 rags, but we kept waru1 sleepin‘ a whole lot In one bed in winter, but we slept outside in summer.

t, I was sold one t ~ Marse ‚ he gittin ‚ old. and ~ he didn ‚ t need so

.	m~iy slaves, so he haire d~ saie and a m~n come and. put us ai~. up on a big platfoim. ¶~pulls Off i~arly all our clothes, ~ ~s to show how big we was, . and he tgins hollerin1 tbout who gwineter btiy, who gwineter buy~ I was scart and thunk I has to leave maw, so I tgins hollerint jist as loud as he does. He turn ~ round and. say ‚ ‚ Shut up ‚ you I 1. 1 ~ c oon ‚ yo~i ‚ I can ~ t hear nothin ‚ I hides my fRee in mawts apron and. didn1t know no more till wets aU loaded in a wagon and starts to de new home, We gits dere and is give ‘new clothes

~	and shoes, de first ones I ever had on and it taken me a long time to lam to wear dein things on my feet.

	“Us niggers has to git up at four in de momnin1 ‚ and work, work till us cantt see no more. )~n dey work at night. De men chops wood and hauls poles to baud fences and ra~ke wood, and de women folks h~s to spin four cuts of thread every night and make all de clothes. ~ ‚±Some has to card cotton to make quilts and corne weave and I~iits stockints. Marss give each one.a chore to do at night and. iffen it warntt did when we went to bed, wets whipped. One t tine I f~lls plumb asleep befo ‚ I flnishčs shellin ‚ sorne corn, but I didnt t

~	git a bad whippin‘ dat time. ~

“Sometimes de niggers danced and pla~red de fiddle and US chilien pl~red
~ in de yard. We could sta~r up all night ~iem ‘t ime.s ‚ but had to work next day;	T
. and. hardly ever ~tayeâ up aU night. Dat ‘~iui.n‘ harvest or at Christmas time,		‚

. ItAU de victuals . waa•~ issued: ott~ ~r: â.G oeé~&~ he gtve ~x~ough for one • ~ ~ ~—2~