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Them what fed the st sek ~t up ~t three ~nd the •verseer would tap a bell ~ s. many times t~ ra~k~ ‘~em git up. The rest g~t up at f*ur and wsrked till g~3Gd. dark, They‘d give us a hundred lashes f3r not cI•ing ~ur task. The iverseer put five nien ~n you; ~ne en each hand, ins in each f•èt ‚ ~nd inc ti hild. y.ur head d,wn ti gun. You ciuldn‘ t di anyth~i~ but wiggle . The bl.ed wiuld fly ‘fire they was thrsugh with you.

	“When I~s a li~1 felliw, I seed niggers whipped in the field. Sime-~ times they‘d taJce ‘em behind the b.i~ cirn crib ~nd fix tein up.

	“Slaves sud f~r $250 t~ $1,500. S.metiznes they swapped ‘em and had. t, give ‘b•,t.‘ The Ib.~tt ~ allus cash,

	“Sein Jenes pre~iched t~ us and read the Bible. He told. us haw ti di and preached Hell~$ire and jed~aent like the white preachers. Us had service at •ur church when One ~f us died. and was buried In ~ur •wn graveyard.

	“The ni~gers sun~‘sings in the field. when they was feeling g.edand ~ scart if eid massa. S~iaetirne they‘d slack up su thet~ h•e and •ld massa h.ller, ‚ I ~ ~ watchin‘ y.us. ‚ The hands say, tyas, suh, us sees ysu, tes. ‚ Then they brightened up ~n that hie. . ~

	si G.m shuckin~s was a. big eccast in them days and mas sa give al 1 the hands a quart • whi skey ~p1e ce . Th‘ d drink wh iskey, get happ~r and make mire n•ise than a little, but better nit git drunk. W&d~ dance all night when the

cern eh~ickin‘ was •ver. •

It ~ heared. the canitins rwnbling at Mansfield ai]. thriugh the night
duriig the war. It was dark and. smöky all raund .ur place • frøm the war, ~ .
I stied..	there in Massa Perry‘ e ~ place and seed s.ld.i~ere eaz~ry ‘,Wa~ • t.dd~i ‚
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