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an the young ones wastes their8. They8 able to make it. They don‘t give the old folk8 nuthin. The times ohan~es so much I don‘t~now what goiner come next. I jes stop and looks and listens to ~ee if my eyes is foolin .me. I can‘t see, fo de cataracts ~ettin bad, nohow. Things is heap better now fo de yoimg folks now if they wouldhelp ~er-~elves. I‘m too wo ou.t. I can‘ t do much like I o ou~ld when I was young. The white folks don‘t cheat the niggers outen what they~ make now bad as they did when I farmed.

	I never knowed about uprisings till the Ku Klux sprung up. I never heard bout ~ the Nat Turner rebellion. I tell you bout the, anile st man I knowed corne ~ frqm . Virginia. A fellow come In the country bout everybody called Solomon. ~ Dis long fo the war. Re was a free man he said. He Would go bout mong his color arid teach em fo little whe~t they could slip~ him alone. He teached some to read. V&en Xreedom he went to Augusta, My brother seed him and said “SolOÏaon, what you dom. here?“ and he said “I sin er teaching school to my own color.“ Then he s~.td they run him out ofVir~inia cause he ~as learnin his color and he kept going.- Some white folks up North learned him to read and cipher. He used a black slate and he had a book he carried around tq.~teech folks with. He was what

they called a dinger cake color,	They would whoop you if they seed you r
with books lear;in. Mighty few books to ~et holtof fo the war. We mark~

on the ground. The passes bout all the paper I ever seed to I come to Tennessee. Then I ~ot to ~o to school a little.

	Thah would the niggers ~et guns and shoot to start a uprisin? Never had none cept if a white man. give it to him. When you a slave you. don‘ t have nothin cept a bIg f ireplace and plenty land t o work,