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Missouri
Bx-Slave Story
Bred Slaves Like Stock Page 4. O-f *
der as dey was goin 1 and Lawd child dat thing destroyed property
for miles around.
"Some of dem rebels had ball bats, some had sticks~ some rid-
ing and some walking. Dey killed three of us niggers in our camp'
dat morning. All de nigger men been taken away just leaving us nig-
ger women and chillun. Dey burned down frame and log huts just de
same. My mother lived to be 115 years old, two uncles lived to be
100, one sister over 60. I use glasses when I read but am blind in
one eye. My husband has been dead 37 years. He was an old soldier
so Uncle Sam gives me a pension.
M I had 15 head of chillun. I have now seven grandchillun and
four great grandchillun. I has been in St. Louis 17 years and lives
with ray daughter Nancy McDonald, 2804 Dayton Street." (Written by
Grace E. White, St. Louis, Mo.)