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put a gra‘ big iron po~ at the door~, an‘ you know some timee dey would fer git to put ai‘ pot dar an‘ the paddy roliere would come an‘ horse whip every las‘ one of ‘em, joe cause r~oor soui$~ were praying ~o God to free ‘ein from dat awful bondage.

	Ra.! ha ha: dar wu~ one ol ‚ brudder who etudied fer ‘em one day an ‚ toi all de elaves how to git even wid ‘m.

	He toi‘ ‘eni to tie grape vines an‘ other vinea across th‘ road, den when de Faddy rollers come galantin‘ wid their horsee runnin‘ so fast you see dem vines would tangle ‘em up an‘ cause ih‘ horses to stumble and fail. An‘ lote of times, badly dey would break dore lege and horses too; one interval on~ ol‘ poor devil got tangled so an‘ de horse kept a carryin‘ him,‘til. he fell off horse and next day a sucker vas found In road whar dem vines wu~ wind aroun ‚ hi s neck so many
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times yes had chok •d him, dey said, ‚ totely dead. 3er~e m right ‘cause dem ol‘ white folks treated ~s so mean.

	Well, someTtimee, you know dey would, the others of ‘em, keep going ‘tu dey fin‘ ~har die m.eiing wuz gwine on. Dey would come in and start whippin‘ an‘ beatin‘ the slaves unmerciful. All dis wuz done to keep yo‘ from servin‘ God4 an‘ do you know some of dem devil s wuz mean an ‚ sinful ‘nough to say . ~‚ Ef I ket eh ~ou here agin servin‘ God I‘ll beat you. You haven‘t time to serve God. We bought you to serve us. Um, um.

	God ‘s gwine ‘rod dem wicket inaraters. Ef hit ‘taint ‘ein shut gite hit, hits gonna fall on deir chillun.

	In dem back days child, meetings wuz carried on je. like we do today, some whatly. Only difference is the slave dat knowed th‘ most ‘bout d~ Bible wo~ild tell and *~p1ain what God had told him in a vIsion (yo‘ young folks say, “dream“) datdis freedom would cometo pass; an‘ den dey prayed fer die vision to corne to pass, an‘ dare what de paddy rollers would whip ‘em ag‘in.

	Lords Lord dey, pew.! pews pw.! Baby, “I jee kno‘ I could if I knowed how