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She say some nights when they camped she would beg f round and try to
fill up# Bat she couldn f t get to Mose without them seein 1 her* Ihen
they got to Fryers Point she went an* got him. They jess laughed and
never give him nuthin* • They left that army fast as they could she say.
"She married at fryers Point* She had jes f one boy and I had four
or five sisters* They all dead but me and Mose* He think he f bout
ninety years old* He come here to see me last year* He sho is feeble*
1 "How come I here? When I was fourteen years old my family heard how
fine this State was and moved to Helena* I lived at Moro and Cotton
Plant* Then, the way I come here was funny• A man come up there and
say a free train was comin f to go back to Africa* All who wanted to go
could go. My pa sold out f bout all we had an f we come here lack they
say. No train come yet goin 1 to Africa as I seed* My pa give the white
man $5*00 to pay far the train* TomSatson was one of f em too* He was
a sorter leader f mong f em wantin f to go back* Well when the day come
that the train due to start everybody come to the depot whar the train
going to stop* There was a big crowd* Yes mam, dressed up, and a little
provisions and clothes fixed up* Jes f could take along a little* They
say it would be crowded so* We stayed around here a week or two waitin 1
to hear somethin* or be ready to go* Most everybody stayed prutty close
to the depot for two or three days* Yes mam there sho was a crowd *** a
whole big train full from here f sides the other places* I jes 1 stayed
kere an* been here ever since* The depot agent, he told f em he didn f t
know f bout no train going to Africa* The tickets was no good on his
trains*
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