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en dat in~iz whar us wuz when dem two Yankee mane lzrimigrated us here ter Arkanaaa. Dey Immigrated er bout er hundred head er niggera at de a~e time• dat US OWn. My grandpappy en my grand~nmy, dey dldn‘ t belong ter old Marater William Green. I jist don‘t know whut white folks dey did belong ter, but I knows dat dey sho own en got my manmiy en us ehillun, Old marater, he rieber mine dem erleavin‘ en tole ‘em dat dey~ree, en kin go if Us Want ter go, en when us left old marster gib ~iianmiy ten bushels er corn en some hog heads en spareribs en tole her ter bring de chillun bak er gin ‚ fore lon~ kase he gwine ter ~ib all de chillun some shoe s at de tanyard, but Us neber did go bak ter git dem shoes kase we wu.z in~nigrated soon atter den,

	“No sir, Boss Man, we don‘t know nuthin‘ ‘bout who our pappy ~z, ]~r iuzn‘ t no niggera much in slabery t imes whut knowed nuthin‘ ~ bout dey pappys. I~y je8 knowed who dey m~nunya is. 1~ts all dey. ‘knowed ‘bout date

Us neber hab no pappy, Jea er ra~iny winit iu~z name &ni].y Green4 RBOS8 Mau, yo see how black I is en kinky dat my hair la en yo can

see dat me en sister Mattle is sho p.ire niggers Nid flO brown in us. Well, yo know one thing, BOBS Man, en dis is aho whut my mauiny done tole us er heap er times, en dat i8 dat when I wuz born dat de granny woman runned ter old mie en taU her ter curn en look at dat baby wbut ~nily done gibed birth ter, and dat I ~z nigh ‘bout white en hed straight hair en blue eyes, en when old mis seed me dat she so mad dat she gib inanmiy er good stroppin kase I born lak dat but hit warn‘ t long atter I born ‚ tore I gits black, en old mie see den dat I er pure nigger, en den she t.ll manviy dat she sorry dat she stropped her ‘bout n~ being white en er habin blue eyes en straight hair. No air, Boss Man, I jes don‘ t know how curn I change but dat sho Is whut merr~y did tell us. Sister Mattie, she know dat.