human
Well, go and see what they want, Plato,
gpt
I done ax um dat, suh, replied Uncle Plato,
human
Very well; where is Mr. Sanders?
gpt
He out dar, suh, makin' fun un um.
human
Bledserd. It was some time before the master could understand what the old man meant, but Mr. Sanders finally made it clear, and Meriwether Clopton sent the negroes about their business with a promise that none of them should ever be
gpt
Bledserd
human
occurred, General Jesse Bledsoe had died leaving a will, by the terms of which all his negroes were given their freedom, and provision was made for their transportation to a free State. But the General had relatives, who put in their claims, and succeeded in breaking the will, with the result that many of the negroes were carried to the West and Southwest, bringing about a wholesale separation of families, the first that had ever occurred in that section. The impression it made on both whites and negroes was a lasting one. In the minds of the blacks, freedom was only another name for
gpt
Bledserin'.