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that I could hardly walk. After whipping me he told me to go and clean up my Mistress room and if I did not make haste he would tak me down again. I did so and then went to the field to work. Worked all day and left the next morning before day and came to Okolona Miss.

About two month ago William Cockrell and Cornelia Kilgore told me if I ever reported any of them to the Yankees for whipping me they would lay me out meaning they would kill me and if they did not get me then, they would get me some time. 

The white people in my neighborhood tell all the Colored ones they are not free but are slaves and I did not know that I was free till you told me so today

Harriett Kilgore her X mark Kilgore

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 4" dy of Dec 1865
[[signature]] W. F. DuBois [[/signature]] 1st Lieut & 
Sub Com Freedmans Bureau
Post of Okolena Miss.

Transcription Notes:
("Okolena" a misspelling of "Okolona")