Beadle's Dime Novels No. 33: Maum Guinea and Her Plantation Children — page 102: what you’re looking at

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dey heerd w’at was going on. Dey were hid in de woods, “night and day. I saw ’em myself, lots of em, w'en I went ‘off to hear what I could hear. I pitied ’em—more’n dey’d ever pitied me. I took meat and bread to some dat were in Travis’ woods, wid de’re chil’ren most starved. “J begun to t’ink that Turner was sure ‘nuff a prophet—dat new times was coming for poor brack people; I begun to dieam of undependence and liberty, such as had been our masters’, an@ if it hadn’t béen for little Katie, 'd have felt joyful enough to sing hymns of triumph. I could sew, and I took one of her white dresses and made her a little shroud, and put her in a box—for nobody come to bury the dead, and we women dug a grave and put her in. Some de foolish nigger-girls dey help derselves to missus’ jeweiry and fine clothes, and put ’em on, and dance and cut up; but I made ‘em put ’em back and behave derselves—leastwise, till dey heard how matters was going. “So we waited. At night we would see ghosts and hear turrible cries. Same of us didn’t dar’ to go near de house, .'kase of de corpses dar. And. I, after little Katie was buried,. didn’t want to go nigh. _De dead bodies begun to corrupt, for ’twas hot August weather; but we women-folks couldn't bury ’em. So we waited—Oh, Lord-a-mighty, yes! “’Twas four nights now, and I was lying awake in my cabin, thinking over things so fast I couldn’ sleep, and the latch raised softly and Nelson come in. I was so “fraid of sperits, and awful things, I'd kept my lamp a-burning, and I could see how tired and sad he looked. “Is all-up, I'm afeard, he said, in answer to my first - question. ‘ We got along well enough, till they stopped agin: our will, at Parker's—we ought to have pushed on to the village before they heerd the news theré; but we dida’t. The whites. got after us. They've scattered us, now. I come comiclooolks.conn