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we were working under written contract. I did not go back because I feared they might hurt me. Mr. Hart promised to give me and brother half the crop of cotton and corn."

Lina Snowball, freedwoman, sworn, says:  "I, Susanna, Jo. Brisco and Matthew Snowball were living at White Oak with Dr. Beale. Myself and Susanna were working for four dollars a month each. Jo. and Matthew were working for half of all that they should make. We engaged to work for twelve months. Mr. Hart, Mr. Boyd and Mr. James said that we would have to come away from Dr. Beale's or be hurt or burnt up. That scared me so I went with them. I believed that they would do what they said. This was about four weeks after Christmas this year. Mr. Hart, Boyd and James came and told us this about an hour after sun=down. They carried me, Susanna Snowball and Jo. Brisco off about two hours after sun-down, and we got to Mr. Hart's after midnight. Mr. Hart had a pistol in his hand. They shott off in the yard twice, that scared me. Susanna said it scared her. Snowball and Brisco both said they were scared. Mr. Boyd took me home with him, and agreed to give me the same that Dr. Beale had been giving me. I didn't want to go to Mr. Boyd's, and Mr. Boyd said that if I

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