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| Page 164: nyself ("I seed some bad sight in slavery, but |
| ain' never been 'bused #myself#. I seed chillun too lil' to |
| walk from dey mammies sol' right off de block) |
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| Page 195: tim (Ross drives de cattle north and I says to |
| him, 'I's good hand at de drive. Kin I go with you nex' |
| #time# you goes north?' And not long after dat we starts and |
| we gits to Kansas City. After Marster Ross gets shut of) |
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| Page 211: women (I saw Massa Oll and he done married after I |
| left and raised a family of chillen. I saw Missie Adeline |
| and she was a old #woman#. We went out and looked at the |
| tombstones and the rock markers in the graveyard on the old |
| place, and some of) |
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| Page 212: woned ("My master was Dick Townes and my folks |
| come with him from Alabama. He #owned# a big plantation |
| fifteen miles from Austin and worked lots of slaves. We had |
| the best master in the whole county, and everybody called) |
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| Page 214: gen'zen ("Old massa name Jim Moore. He a fair old |
| #gen'man#, with a big bald place on he head, and he am good |
| to de slaves. Not even as stric' as old) |
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| Page 226: bit (best men I ever knows in my whole life and |
| his wife was jes' like him. Dey had a #big#, four-room log |
| house with a big hall down the center up and down. De logs |
| was all peeled and de chinkin' a diff'rent color from de |
| logs and) |
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| Page 228: "e (De war am on, but us don't see none of it. But |
| 'stead of eatin' cornbread, us eats bread out of kaffir corn |
| and maize. #"We# raises lots of okra and dey say it gwine be |
| parch and grind to make coffee for white folks. Dat didn't) |
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| Page 251: conb (I go to milk I puts her in de trough. I |
| saved her life lots of times. One time she's on de #cone# of |
| de two-story house, when s