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     YOU ASKS ME WHEN I'SE BORN AND WAS I BORN A SLAVE.  WELL, I'SE BORN ON
JULY 17, 1845, SO I'SE A SLAVE FOR TWENTY YEARS, AND HAD THREE MASSAS.  I'SE BOR
N IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY, NEAR MEMPHIS, IN TENNESSEE.  MASSA JOHN PEACOCK OWNED DE
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 SLAVES.
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ND, AND SIXTEEN IN DE THIRD.  DEN DERE AM HOUSE SERVANTS' QUARTERS NEAR DE BIG H
OUSE.  DE CABINS AM LOGS AND NOT MUCH IN DEM BUT HOMEMADE TABLES AND BENCHES AND
BBu KSBESIDE DE WALL.  EACH FAMILY HAS DEIR OWN CABIN AND SOMETIMES DERE AM TEN