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and make ten bales of cotton. I can‘t do It now. I used to be a woman In my day. I em 1117 mother‘ s seventh child.

	ni don‘ t biy no hoodoo and I don‘ t believe In none ‚ but a seventh child can more or less tell you things that are a long way oft. It you want to beat the devil you got to do right. God‘s got to be in the plan.

I tries to do right. I ~ not perfèot ~it I do the best I can. I ain‘t got no bottom teeth, ~.tt my top ones are good. I have a few bottom ones. The Lawd‘s keepin‘ me here for somopin. I been with ‘im now seventy-three years.“






Interviewer‘ s Co,~nent

	I‘ll, bet the grandest moment in the life of ßiater Alexander‘s mother was ihen her mistress said, ~&gnes, will you follow ~ It I buy your husband?‘ Fifteen hundred dollars to ~xty a rebellious slave in order to unite a slave couple. It‘s eptc,