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	15.	What do you rerne~ther about the war that brought yQur freedom? What h~ppened on the day news carne that you were free? What did your rn~ster ~ay and do? When the Yankees came what did. they do and say?

	16.	Tell what work you did and how you lived the first year after the war and what you saw or heard about the KuXiux Klan and. the Nightriders. Any school then for Ne~r‘es? Any land?

	l7• Whom did you marry? Degcribe the wedding. How many children and grandchildren have you and what ~re they doing?

	18.	~That do you think of Abraham Lincoln? Jefferson Davis? Booker Washington? Any other prominent white man or Negro you have known or heard of?
	19.	Novi that si~very is ended what do you think of it? v~hy you joined a church arid why you think all ~eop1e should be
Tell religious.
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rules?
W;:~s the overseer “poor white trash“?
What viere some of his
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