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	RI don‘t recollect no big change after freedcm cept thy ‚uit selling and working tolka without giving them money. I was too imafl to notice much change then I speck. Ti~ea hae alwaya been ‘tight wid me. I alu‘ t never had very much. I did work an a livin is all I ever got out of it. Never could make enough to get ahead.

	“The white folks never give the darky nothing when freedom declared. We used to raise tobacco and sell it to smoke and make snuff. And he had em make ax handles to sell on the side for money till the crops gathered.

	“If you believe in the Bible you won‘t believe in women vo~in. I never did vote. I ain‘t goner never vote.

	“The present condition is fine. Ifra. Bobineon oarriea a great big truck load to her farm every day to pick cotton. She aent word up here ehe take anybody whut wanter work. I wish I was able to go. I loves to pick cotton. She pay em seventy-~tive cents a hundred. She‘ll pay em too I don‘t know what they do this winter. Set by the fire I recken. Bit next spring she‘ Il løt hoe that crop. She took em this past year to hoe out that very cotton they pickin now. Her husband, he‘s sick. He keeps their store up town. She takes a few white hands too if they wanter work. I don‘t think the present generation no worse en they ever be.n. They drawed up closer together than they used to be. They buys everything ~iow an they don‘t raise nuthin. It ‚ s the Bible fulfillin. everything so high they caint save nuthin!

	“I married twice. Pirat time in the church, other time at home, I had four children. I had two in Detroit. I don‘t know where my son is.