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	~The first real thing that made i~ switch froa the ndicine to the ministry was the deep cal]. of the ministry gave ~ more interest in the Gospel than the profession of n~dicine furnished to ~. In other words, I discovered that I was a real preacher and not a real doctor,

	“Touching slavery, the white people to whcst my parents belond were tolerant and did not allow their slaves to be a~xaed by patrollere and outsiders.

	“My mother‘s people, however, were sold from her in very early lite and sent to A1ab~. My mother‘ s maiden na~ was Earriet ~uith. ~ie o~ trois South Carolina too. Her old master was a aDith. My mother end father lived on adjoining plantations and by permission of both overseers, my father was permitted to visit her and to marry her even before frsedcm, Out of regard tor my father, his master bought my mother tro~ her master. I think my father told me that the old master called ~hem all together and announced that they were free at the close of the Jar. Right after freedom, the first year, he remained on the farm with the old master.

After that he moved away to Greenville County, South Carolina, and settled

on a farm, with the brother.-in-lav of his old master, a men named Squire

Bennett. He didn‘t go to war.

	~There was an exodus of colored people from South Carolina beginning ab~it 1880, largely due to the Ku Klux or Red Shirts. • They created a ri~i of terror for colored people in that state, B. joined the exodus in 1882 and came to Arkansas where from reports, the outlook seeemd better for him and his family. Re had no trouble with the Ku flux in Arkansas. Re maintained himself here by farming.