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	“Nex‘ ~ ~s et arted agin on our j ourney, and sots time in )Larch we reach Texas. They took us ~j~l ~croee de Brazos on a ferryboat, jus‘ ~bmit where de ‘sp,nsion bridge Is now.

	“De doctor took us.all on de farm on d. other eid. o( when BOBqUß is now. On de farm us raised all kinds vegetable. and grain and sugar cane to make sorghum, but no cotton. We all lived in on and two ~‘oom log cabins, made out of cedar posts. Us d.Idn‘ make any money for ourselves ‚ but us had plenty of hog meat ‚ beef ‚ butter, E:~ilk, cornbread arid vegetables to eat, lots mo‘ dan us have d.ese days.~ US did. all de cookin‘ in de fireplaces. Us aho~ did have plenty of

possil, and rabbit, ~nd us cotched loti of fiati outt~ de Bosque River. tiDe women slaves, eleven of us, had our own gardens and us spun

all our own clothes. In de summer us aU. wore cotton stripe and in de winter, linsey dr.sses. On Sunday us had lasn dresses and us eho~ did. come out lookiflg cnoicesome.

	“Dr. Worth had. Si for an ov•rseer. It was a big farm and had forty or fifty slaves to work it. Us got up ‘bout four in de inornint and ate br,akfas1 !b~it nine o‘clock. All de alaves had. to work from sun to sun, end when ui was sick, de aarstsr treated us.

	“~~hen I was about 16, I married William Wright. He was botL a slave near Rap id es, E.ntucky. ~hen he was e ight year old. ‚/h. and. ) his family‘. ownsr died, and he went to the daughter, Mrs. Richard Ltason, on Black River ‚ in Louis iena, as „ he ir pr c~perty,! He was r~jsed der• ‚ but when he ‚ s fre ed he comes to Texas and works for
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