“They had a battle at Lawrence • It was ~‚7 miles, The soldiers passed 1on~ the Big road, I didn‘ t see the battle s . I heard plenty talk about that conflict at Lawrence though.

	ni heard the slaves was goin‘ to get 40 acres and a mule. I tell you they didn‘t wait to see if they was coing to get another meal. They went wild, walking and hooping up and. down the road. They found out when they nearly starved they had got the bad end of~ the game some~ how. Then to keep em from starvin‘ they bad certain days to go to Lawrence and get a little rations. Not much I tell you. They started stealin‘ and the Ku Klux started up bout that,

	“The President got killed (Abraham Lincoln). Then they knowed the gig was up, They had to go to work hard as ever and mighty little to eat. The slaves did vote. It was the color of the paper they used way they knowe d how to vote • The Repubi ican government had full sway 12 ~ years, All the offices at Edgefield nearly was Negroes cept the sheriff. The Yankees tell em what to do way they knowed how, D~tler went to Gon-~ ~re se . lie was a Negro — ( ??? ) • That was what the Ku Klux was ruad bout. They run the Yankees out and took holt of the offices soon as they could~

	“Our master had no Ku Klux comm1 on our place, He protected us, It wasn‘ t no different than slavery till I was nearly grown and a drove was walking going west to better place. I got in with them and Come on0 The Ku Klux had killed several Negroes. That scared them all up. I remember Tuscaloosa, Alabama when we cane through there. We Was walking ~ a line a mile long ~ marching and singing. They was bUj1dj~~ back in a hurry seemed like to me. The town had been burned up.
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