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left hc~ ónd stays1 to~sthir. Th. Ka KLux véry seldom interfer~ a woman or a child.

	“They often seared colored people by drinking large quantities ot water. They had acinthing that held a lot of water, and when they ~àu].d raise the bucket to their mouths to drink~ they would slip the water into


white C*pa	~

	“The white caps operated further to the northwest of Where I lived. I ne‘ver came in contact with thm. They were not the same thing as the K~i Klux.
	~	Voting

	~In $outh Carolina under the Reconstruction, we voted right along~ In 1868 there were soldiers at all ot the election places to see that you did vote,


Career Since the War
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	“In 1881 1 married. The year after that ‚ ~ ‘85~ I merchandised a little. Then I got converted. I got it in my head that it was wrong to take big protits trcm business, so I sold out. Then I was asked to assist the keeper of the jail.

	“In . 1888 I went to school for the first ti~. I ~ was then twnty—six years old. By the end of the tiret te~, I ~ew ai]. that the teacher could teach, so he sent me to Claflin University. I left there in the third sear normal.

	“When I returned hœ~e, I taught school, at f~rat in a private school sud later in a public Échool for 115 a month.