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"The Dandridge Family History" original manuscript, 1971
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3 overseers with Horses whips and revolvers and if you got behind thay would use the whip untill you cought up Ruffus said slaves would fall out from the Heat thay would pull you from the field and let you lay they're if you come out of it all right and if you dident That was all right to so Ruffus said it was a Hot day it looked like God Had sent a angle from the sky He looke up and saw His master comeing. from Kentucky He Had His gun on His Hip as He came up He Had been looking at the Situation and He did not like it so He Called His slaves, Ruffus His Brother Sister Mother and Father and told them to quit work thay were goeing home
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3 overseers with Horses whips and revolvers and if you got behind thay would use the whip untill you cought up Ruffus said slaves would fall out from the Heat thay would pull you from the field and let you lay they're if you come out of it all right and if you dident That was all right to so Ruffus said it was a Hot day it looked like God Had sent a angle from the sky He looke up and saw His master comeing. from Kentucky He Had His gun on His Hip as He came up He Had been looking at the Situation and He did not like it so He Called His slaves, Ruffus His Brother Sister Mother and Father and told them to quit work thay were goeing home
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