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- Jessie A~ Butler
Charleston, S, o.




look up and I see de glory, I see a big beautiful 1i~t, a groat IlRht, and in de middle is de Sabior, hanging so (extending her arms) just like He died, Den I gone to prayins~ gooa, and I can feel de sheckles (shackles) loose up and rnovinp.. and de pack fall off. I don‘t know where it went to, I see de an~~1~ in de Heaven, and hear dem say ‘Your sins are forgiven.“ I scream and fell Of~ so, (Swoon.) ~Th.en I come to dey has laid me out straip~t and I know I is converted cause you can‘t see no such eight ~nd go on like you is before. I know I is still a sinner but I believe in de power of God and I trust his Holy naine, Den dey put inc wid do seekers but I know I is already saved,t1

	T1Did they take good care of the slaves when their babies were born?“ she was a~ked, “If you want chickens for fat (to fatten) you ~ot to feed dern,‘~ she said viith a smile, “and if you want people to work dey got to be strong, you got to feed dem and take care of dem too, If dey can‘t work it come out of your pocket. Lots of wickedness gone on in dem days, just as it do now, some good, some mean, black and white, it just dore nature, if dey good dey coing to be kind to everybody, 1f dey mean dey goIng to be moan to everybody. Sometimes chilien was sold ~ay from dey parents. De ~Iausa would corne and say T1Vthere Jennie,‘t tell um to put clothes on dat baby, I went um. He sell de baby and de ma scream and holler, you know how dey carry on. Geneally (generally) dey sold it when de ma wasn‘t dere. I~r.

~killer