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Exu‘.slave Stories	7;;)
(Texas)





“De overseer, him ring de bell ‘bout half past four in de mornin‘

and everybody what work go to clř fields. De massa purty reason‘bie with de work and didn‘ t whip much. On Sunlays de old slaves goes to de church

and de chilien plays.

tlihen war come der• lots of soldiers allus ridin‘ by de place,

all deck aut in de uniform with big, shiny butto7is on de coat. When us chilien seed. dein we took to de woods.

“After freedom we‘~Ths moves to de next farm and. works and I stays

dere with my family till I ‚ s ‘bout 25 year old, and den I marries ~om Gould anti move to McLei~n~ Coenty. But he so mean I didn‘t stay with him very long, and ‘bout six months of his foolishness and~ I ups and. leaves him. After two years I marries George Taylor and. I lt?eS with dat mart for 12 years and~ took ‘nough of his foolishness, so I leaves him. I‘s had faul‘ chilien but Tom Gould nor George Taylor wasn‘t de father of any cf ‘em. No, sith, I just found dem chilien.