Ex‘-elave Stories	Page Two
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.	t, I never knowed what they done with the other gal ‚ but they s old me to

.	~ax‘•se Bill Tu.mlin, what r~in a big lIvery stable in Jefferson, and I ‘longed to him till surrender. I lived in the house with them, •cau~e they had a boy and g~l and I did. for thera ‚ They bought me cl othes and t o~k good care of me but 1. never seed no money till surrender. I et what they et, after they g~ through. Missy say she didnbt ‘lieve in fe~din1 the darkies scraps, Uke some folks.

	HI playe~d with them two chilien all day, then sot the table. I was so

.	smsll I‘d g~t in a chair to reach the dishes out of the safe. I hw3. to pull a long flybrash over ~ the tani e whilst the whi te folks et.

	~Marse Tumlin had a farm tbout I~our mile from town, and a overseer, ~nd I seed him bt~ckle the niggers crost a log and whip them. Marse lived in Jeffers on ‚ lies elf‘ ‚ and when he ‚ d. go t o the farm he alius t o ok ~ t s boy with hirn. Wetd be playin‘ in the barn and Marse call from the house,

•Come on, Ji~ini‘e, weTr, gwine to the farm . ~ Jimmie allus s~y t o me, tCome . on•, nigger, lette rid.e round the farm.‘ I‘d say, ‘I alntt no nigger.‘ He‘d say, ‘Tes, yciu is, my pa paid $200 for you~. He bought you for to play

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~	~ “Jefferson~was a good town till it burned up. I tm~bers the big

: ~ fire what looked 111cc the whole t own gwineter burn up • Mars. B ill I os t

:~ his livsx‘y stabl• in the fire.

;. ~ . .	~he Yankee soldiers, all dressed in blue, come to run the town ~ ‚ after the war. Marse Twnlin done told nie Vin free, but I Btays On till Itm moat growed. Then I works round town and marries Dave Black, and we
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