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some money. Marster jus‘ paid up his Niggers once a year, at de end of crap time. It warn‘t long atter de ?Thr was over ‘fore dere was some rew schools for Niggers scattered ‘round ‘bout.

	“When did I git married? Lorcly, Misse Buch things de giverr~ent do want to know ‘bout pore old Niggers~ It warn‘t ‘tu ten years atter us was freed, dat me and Martha Freeman got married up together. Dat was one sho‘ ‘nough fine weddin‘ what Miss Salue Morton and our other white friends give us. Dey give us evvything us had at dat big old feast. Dere was three tables full, one for de white folks, and two for de Niggers, and dein tables was jus‘ loaded dov;n v~rid good things. ~il1ie and ida w~s de onliest chillun me and i~artha had, and dey never lived to git grown. Martha died out and den I married up wid iviamie White. Us didn‘t have no chillun ~nd Marnie‘s daid now. Dey‘s all daid ‘cept me.

	“I thinks it was a good thing Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Davis did set us free, and I sho‘ hopes de giverment won‘t never fetch slavery back no more.

	“I never will forgit de day I jined up wid Morton‘s Baptist Church. I had done helped my i~a build it from a brush arbor to a sho‘ ‘nough church house. De reason I jined up was ‘cause de ~:arster had done changed me from nature to Grace. I thinks ~vvybody ought to jine up in de church ‘cause it‘s de Lord‘s will.

	“Miss, I done told you all I knows and I‘se a sick man, so go ‘long wid you and let me tske my rest.“