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	Novt, Mi. se Sue ‚ take up • I jee ~ like to ta 1k to you, honey ‘bout dem daye ob ~ilavery; ~cauee you look like you wan‘ta hear all ‘bout ‘em~.~ AU ‘bout de ol~ rebels; an‘ de~ r~ic~gers who left wU de Yankee. s~1 *ere eat free, but, poor thinc~, dey had no place to go after dey got freed. Baby, all us WQZ helpiese an‘ a&&t had ncthth‘, ~

	I ~aw free a lonc~ time ‘:fo‘ I knew it. My VLst~ee still hired me out, ~t~tl one day in t~nun‘ to ~te woz~tin ehe hired me to, ehe, “God blees her eoul“~ ehe told me, “Fannie yo~ arę~. free,an‘ I dor~1t have to pay your Mai..

ter for you now. ‚~ You etay vdth ins, She didn‘t cive me no money, but let

me etay there an1 work for vitals an‘ olothee ~ctuee I ain‘t had no where to go. JeediB, Jeeue, God heLp uei Um, ~u, ~n ~ You O}iilhAn don1t know.

I tidn ‘t eay rtothi ‘ when sh~~ wuz té Ihnt me, but done ‚ sided to leave her Einl go b~Řk to the white falke dat f~44 own* ~p,

r plan‘ to ~tend a big &ance. Let n~e eec, t think it wuz on a Thura~

d~ y nig}~t. Some ho~* it tooken got out, you know how gals i~ii I 1 ta 1k an ~ it got to ‘ Bu Duffeye tara ‘ dog ~ an ‚ ‚ baby do you know, mind you

‘twont‘ :e1t~very tii~~, but de or~~r~ got eo n~d caupe I rurtned away from her dat ~he get a 7~h~l.e paeeel of ~€!~ oůt looking for me~ Dar wuz a boy, ~ho heard ‘em talki~t‘ an1 eayj~~ dey wuz ~oin~ to kilt rie if I were found. I willnever forget die boy so& up to me while I w~ dancin‘ wid aaotber man ant .ed, *iiobod~y~ knowee «bers you ar1, Miče Moore,. dey is lookin ter you, ar~ ~ it‘ gwine ~U ii you, co 70 ~*c~e on wX d me. „ Have mercy, heie mercy 1~ Lord, honey, you Min jee ~a~in ~ my f~eelin ‚ fer a minuts, I oou]dn ‘t move. Tau know de gais an‘ boys aU ~ot ‘round ~e an‘ told me to go wid 8qur.bail, •dat he wouid show me de way to my old Mistese house, Out we til*, tTL~ we ran one straight mile up de road, den through de woods, den w. he4 ta go through a et~*w field. Oat field s,ei~~ ilks three miles.