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	UDe Fishers was Pres‘terjang an‘ dey had. dere own church on de place. .Eve‘ybody had to go Ön Sunday; de white folks slttin‘ in de front, de colored folks in de back. De onl‘es‘ holidays us niggers had. VT8S Ohris‘mas an‘ New Years. O~ dese days us all exchanged gif‘s.

	‘1My pappy an ‚ mammy att er de war farmed o n shares wid ~ n ~isher. I was ma‘ied ‘bout dis t±rne, white folks, to Sam Bowen, who long been d.a±d. Us had a big weddin‘ en‘ de two Migti~ Fishers (Massa‘s ~au~~hters) baked‘us a cake an‘ I sont a piece to all my white frien‘s for dem to~‘eam On. Atter I come to Mobile, I changed my ‘ligioñ to ~:ein1 a Babtist. -

	“I had ten chiliuris, but seven of dem is daid. I is even got f0‘ great gran‘ chilluns.

	“Yassum, us had po‘ white trash back In dem days of de war. Dey lived near our place, an‘ some of ‘em didn‘t have no niggers at all. Dey worked deyse‘f in de fiel‘s. Us didn‘t fc~l ‘long wid dem kinds of r)eople dough white folks. Us kep‘ mostly to ourselves.

	UYassum, us house niggers et in de kItchens, dat was separated f‘um de main buildin‘ by a walkway, kivered at de top but not at de ~i~es. All de slave chilluns had a grown nigger woman and a young gal ‘tout sixteen tö look atter dem. We~alls had. a good time an‘ us ~as l~appy an‘ secure.“


~~Tash. CQp~,

:E/4/37.

L.	H.