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"The Dandridge Family History" original manuscript, 1971
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30 as I cannot die in peace if a man says I owe Him I was born a slave never Could read or write I own this 120 acers bank account three Hundred-and $62 dollars I will pay the bill so He did and He said I can leave this world Happy so He never owed another bill all ways paid cash after that He died 3 years later any time Mathild promised Her Children any thing if it was a spanking or to go to town and see the Circis she all ways Kept that promis she would say Children you be good and work Hard this would be in the spring and I will take you this fall to the Circis so we would
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30 as I cannot die in peace if a man says I owe Him I was born a slave never Could read or write I own this 120 acers bank account three Hundred-and $62 dollars I will pay the bill so He did and He said I can leave this world Happy so He never owed another bill all ways paid cash after that He died 3 years later any time Mathild promised Her Children any thing if it was a spanking or to go to town and see the Circis she all ways Kept that promis she would say Children you be good and work Hard this would be in the spring and I will take you this fall to the Circis so we would
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