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knees sag, ths lady‘d come down across her bald with a switch. That wus Miss Jennie‘s mother. She‘d give the cook 3es‘ so much meal to make bread turn an‘

effen she burnt it, she‘d b. scared to d•ath cause they‘d whup her. I ‘member pl~~ty of timse the cook ask say. ‘Maria please ‘ecuse dis bread, hits a little too brown. ‘Yeesir~ Beat the devil out ‘er if she burn dat bread.

i: went ~df Miss J~nnie an‘ worked at house. I didn‘t have to cook. I got

~	permission to git married, Yer always had to git permission. ~hite folks ‘ud

~	give yer away. Yer jump cross a broom stick tergether an‘ yer wus married. My

~	hu~ban~‘ lived on another plantation. I slep‘ in my mistress‘s room but I ain‘t

~	elep ‚ in any bd. Noeir I elep ‚ on a carpet ‚ an ‚ ~Z~rug, beta ‚ the fiahplace.
~	3 ~	~ ~

! i had to git permission to go to church, everyb~dy did. W• ~ set in the

~	gallery at the white folks service in the nornin‘ an‘ in the evenin‘ the folk

~‚ neid baptise service in the gallery wif white present.

~	Ship went to war but not for long. ~e didn‘t see none of it, but the

; slaves knew what the war wuz ‘bout. ~Lfter the war they tried to fool the •lav•s

J	‘bout frs~dorn an‘ wanted to keep ‘m on a workin‘ but the Yankees told ‘em they wuz free. They sent soas of the slaves to $outh Caroiin~*4~n tie Yankees carne near to keep the Yankees from gittin‘ ‘ein. Sent cousin James to South Carolina.

•: ~ nevah will ~orgit Whin the Yankees came through. They wuz takin ‚ all the liv,.1 ‚. etock an ‚ all the men slaves back to Norfolk, rid ‘em to break up the system. ~hits

.	folks head wus je.‘ goin‘ to keep on havin‘ slaves. The slaves wanted freedom, but

~	they‘e scared to tell the white folk. so. anyway the Yankees wus givin‘ •vsryihin‘

‚ to the slaves. I kin heab ‘am tellin‘ ol‘ Missy now.‘Yea3 give‘er cLothes. Lt‘er ; take anythin‘ she wants.~ They even took some of Mise Jennie‘s things an‘ offered

.	~ to me. I didn‘t take ‘em tho‘ cause she‘d been purty nice to me. ~hut tickled

~	!ne wuz my hueban‘, John Spark.. ifs didn‘t want to leave a. an‘ go cause he didn‘t

~t. knOw whab they‘s takin‘ ‘m nor what they‘s gonna do, but he wanted to be free;

...i~ so h, played lame to k,d~T~ ~ goin‘. N• was Jeit a limpin‘ ‘round. It wis 911 1