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ove r a barre I arid larrup him wid a plal te cl whup . ~ Oinans warn‘ t whupped much. I~y graridpaYork was so bad ‘bout runnin‘ ‘way Marse Billy made him wear long old horns. One Sunday Marse Billy went by our church to see if all his Niggers was dar what was sposen to be dar. And dere grandpa was a-sottin‘ wid dem horns on his head. Marse Billy told hi~ he could take de horns off his head whilst he wa s I n d e nie e t i n‘ houe e • ~ t da t grandpa droppe d dem horns ‚ and lit a rag to d~ woods and it tuk de dogs days to find him.

	“If one slave kilt another, Marse Billy made de3verseer tie dat dead Nigger to de one what kilt him, and de killer had to drag de corpse ‘round ttjl he died too. De murderers never lived long a-~draggin‘ dem daid ones ‘round. Dat jus‘ pyorely skeered ‘em to death. Dere was a guardhouse on de farm, whar de wust Niggers was kept, and while dey was in dat guard house ‚ dey warn‘ t fed but once a day. It warn‘t nothin‘ unusual for Marse Billy to sel].

s lave s ‚ bu t he ne ver s o id hi s be s t Ni. gge re • :c~ one s he so id was alms dem he couldn‘ t gi.t no wuk out of.

	“Not a Nigger could read or write on Maree Billy‘s p1anta-~ tion. Dey was all too dumb to lam. Dere was a shaokly sort of church house on our plantation and on Sundays atter de Niggers had cleaned deyseifs up, if dey told Marss Billy dey wanted to go to church, he sont ‘em on. All I knows ‘bout baptizin‘s is dey jus‘ tuk ‘em to de river and plunged ‘em in. Dey sung somepin‘ ‘bout:

‘G•wine to de aiver for to be ~aptized.‘ Us had prayer_meetin‘s on
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~Iednesday nights sometimes.

	“Oh, Mussyt Don‘t ax me ‘bout furi‘rals~. I got de misery in my laigs and I feels too bad dis mornin‘ to let myself even think