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before been ever to a Bureau Agent to make a complaint, and now she was summoned to Appear before the Probate Judge as defendant in a case of adultery bro't on by a Colored man (Ike) with whom she was, against her remembrances, compelled to live while a Slave. 

They are evidently bound together by no [[?]] of affection for the first evening after the federal troops passed thro' here Ike approached her as usual but she told him that she had been living with him, not that she had ever loved him but under Compulsion, that she was then her own woman, and henceforth she would never have anything to do with him. This promise she has faithfully kept to this day. For a short time after they were free she remained with Ike (i.e. on the same place) but his abuse to her was such that she was forced to leave him. 

She then made a contract to labor last Year, but was seen followed by Ike, who, in order to force himself upon her engaged to work for the same man, knowing that Polly's Contract could not be nullified, and