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.	“Us didn‘t have time for de p].ayin‘ of gaines dunn‘ d~ week,

t cause t dark when us goes out an. it dark when us comes back. ~ Us sho ‚ was tired. At night dat overseer walk by ~ur cabins and call but to us, to see

~	if us aU inside. If us don‘t answer he come up and. find out ~thy, and he‘d find us, too.

HI lamed to read and write a little jes‘ since freedom. Us

used Webster‘ s old blueback spellers aud I has one In de house to dis day and I wouldn‘t take nothing for. it. .

.	“The first year ~ter freedom I farms with niannny and my stepdaddy.

Pappy done die • Us done purty good de first year and I keeps ou farmin ‚ most my life, I marries Georgia Anne Harper In 1875 . or L8?6 in Limestone County.

Us have four chilien and three Is ]ivin‘. I marries ‘gain in 1882 to Xissourl Fisher and us have eight chilien and • six is livin ‚ ~

	“TJs git s . ‚ long on what de stat e give us now ‚ and lt alu‘ t so bad. T imes I s d.‘ rent ‚ I never done mach but fai‘m ‚ so ~ o‘ t know so mtt&~ ‚ bout everything what goes on. ~
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