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[[stamp]] law required of us, and what they were agoing to do with us. He said we are agoing to have all of you niggers out for $5.00 a month, so you will live on the government. I said five dollars a month, why I now pay four men each $ 35.00 a month myself. Well all this is done by your yankee friend, who nitended they was agoing to set all the niggers free. we always told you they was the meanest men in the world, and that it would be a great deal worse for you when they came. Now you have nobody to protect you and they are agoing to hire you out for $5.00 a month. After a good deal more of the same sort of talk about the yankees, and I had remained there an hour or more, on of the Maya's old policemen who was on duty there, said Brooks you -over-
Transcription Notes:
few older words present.
Stamp does not need to be described, all you need to do is note that there is a stamp on the page
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