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while. Sb.p Miller warn t•rribie. There wai no •nd.to ths biatin‘ I •aw it vif

my own eyes.

	Beat wom•n1~ ~hy sure hi beat women. Beat women Je. ‚ lak men. Beat woven naked an‘ wash ‘sa down in brin., Some times they beat ‘•m so bad, they J•s~ couldn‘t stand it an‘ th.y run away to th• woods. If yer git in the woods, thiy couldn‘t git yôr. Yer could hide an psopi. slip yer eom.pla‘ to eat. Th.n he call y.r every day. After while hi tell one of colored forez~an tel]. yer comi on back. Hi aiu‘ta goin‘ beat yer anyiiaors. They had colorii:oreman but they always have a white overseer, Foreman git yer to come back ‘ then h. beat~ yer to death again.

	They ~rk~d six days fum sun to sun. If thsy forcin‘ wheat or other crops, th.y start to work long ‘fo day. Usual work day began when the horn blow an ‚ stop when the horn blow. Th.y git off j,.‘ long ‘nut to eat at noon. Didn‘t have euch to eat. They git some suet an‘ slice a bread to ‚ brsakfas, ~ell, they give the

colored people an aUowance every wsek. b‘ dinner they‘d eat ash cake baked on blade of a hoi.

	I lived at Siafoid then an‘ was roun‘ fiftsen or sixteen when my mistress married. Ship ~il1ir livid at Bpringdale. I ‘nimber jes‘ as well when they gave me to Jennie. we wuz all in a room helpin‘ her dress. She was soon to b. marri•d, an‘ she turns ‘roun an‘ •ez to us. ~.ich of yer niggers think I‘m goima git when I git married? %S~e all say,‘Ï doan know,‘ An‘ ahs looks right at me an‘ point h•r finger at me like this an‘ eaysd ‘yer‘‘ I vas so glad. I had to maki ‘er believe I ‘us cryin‘, but i: vas glad to go with ‘er. She didn‘t beat.. She vus 3es‘ a. young thing. Coure. she take a whack at me sometime, but that weren‘t nuff in‘. Her mother vu a man ‘ thin‘. She ‘6 beat yer with a broom or a Isather strap or anythin‘ she‘d git her hands on.

	Shi ustsr make my aunt ~roline knit all day en‘ when eh. git so tired aftab dark that shi ‘d git sleepy, she ‘d mùe ‘er stan ‚ up an knit • She work hit

: •° hard that she‘d go to sleep standin‘ up an‘ •i•ry time h•r haid nod an‘ her