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fiel‘s dey ~ so tired dat dey go raght to sleep, except when d~ massa
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.:~ad oarbecues. Chr~strnas ~ de big time; dere --~-- several days to res‘ an‘ make merryin‘ an‘ lote of dem no count ni~ggers got drunk.

	“Vlhen Us slaves ~ sick, Liassa Lee would send to Eufaula to fetch Dra Thornton to give us eome medlc±ne. We had de bes1 treatment ever.

	“Yassuh, white folks, dem days is long ago. All my chilluns done cUed or wandered away an‘ my oie man been dead goi& on twenty ~ears. I been here a long time by myself.“
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:	Aunt I~tolly,“ I Interrupted. “There‘s one thing I‘ve always been wanting to ask one of you ex—slaves, and that is: what you thought ~of ~eopie like Abraham Ljncoln,Jefferson Davis and cooker T. Washing— ~tOfl.~


~ . A puzzled expression came over the face of the old Negro. “White ~folks~,“ she said after a moments deliberation, ‘~I don‘t believes I is ~:.ad de pleasure of meetin‘ dein gent‘mens.“


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~	5/25/37.

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