her. SO many colored folks learnt thir~s because they eavesd.ropped their ~iite folke, but r~ther didn‘t do that. She didn‘t leaxrx nothin‘ bu~t what they talked before her, au~ they wer. careful. Btit they protected her. Th~r never did allow nobody to bother her no way.

	“She was a Baptiet. She belonged to the white folks‘ church before she was ~reec1. Then she joined the Methodist church at Bentoz~ because there wasn‘t no other church there. But she was a fui1~b1ood Baptist.“
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