What They Got

"I never heerd of anything any of them got. I never heerd of any of

them getting anything except work. I don't recollect any pension or

anything being given them--nothing but work.

Folks on this place would leave and go over on that place, and folks

on that place would come over here. They ate as long as the white

folks ate. We stayed with our old master and mistress, (Mr. Asa Brown

and Mrs. Sallie Brown).

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